Old Owens 2 Knobs 2

I knew I'd forgotten something! It's when us very very, verrrrry old players play, on form and merit, I may boastfully add, that we tend to forget the other little things in life, like match reports and what's my willie for again.A good result against a good side.Only controversy when manager entered fray, fifteen minutes left to replace a cartilage damaged Dave (hello you cartilage damaged Dave- well played, see you in March). The referee awaiting his big moment approached me and said "watch your elbows this year", yer couldn't mek it up! Only thing I did was try to rip shirt off that young left back's back, other than that all was quite pleasant.We started slowly, but Trevor soon found his mouth. They were knocking the ball round well. They scored from a nicely flighted chip but we soon equalised with a snorter. John Twigg, at centre forward, manager's successful ploy, he tried and played very well, played the rampaging Alistair away down the right. A superb cross from the byline reached the far post where John, following in, rose like a gannet, hung in the air and let his nut butt home the equaliser.They scored again. The rain pissed down by the way but Ali's McLaren proved useful to me on the side.We gained a free kick some 31 and a half yards out. Steve advanced to rifle home a scorcher skimming from beneath the cross bar. 2-2 half time.Second half was a stalemate with them having the best chances with Matt and John left to forage well up front on mere scraps. Mind with minutes to go John was through before being hauled down for a slam dunk fuckin penalty, not given. I did remonstrate politely with the ref "yer friggin cheat" but he was having nowt of it. Well there you go. Honest that was so blatant I'd be be so embarrassed beyond measure if I hadn't given it against us, bliddy honest!Roy went off injured after a sterling game alongside Chris against two very skilful strong forwards (both vets I may add).One pathetic note. Paul came on at half time for Brendan, no that's not pathetic, I stayed off, things were going Ok. I took Mark off and Brendan back on after 65 minutes. I stayed on the line. With 15 minutes left Dave was injured and there was no sign of Mark so I was forced to take the track suit off and join in. It was still raining!With 8 minutes left Roy went off injured and they were pressing hard. Where was Mark, we were down to 10!!! Where were you Mark you didn't mention you were diappaering into the fuckin ether?We held out for a draw. Just as well. Some people put their bodies on the line in games. You can get hurt and sometimes some do. Personally if we'd lost a goal in those last minutes it would have been a real pisser in light of what had gone before. Howay the brave 10 men. I still don't know where Mark is by the way, whether he flushed himself down the bog or just went yem? Does he even know the result, does he care?Trevor was excellent in goal, he handles greasy balls with aplomb. The dirty devil!