MBDA 5 Knobs 1

By gad twas a fierce, windy morning. Made controlled football difficult but they seemed to manage it on occasions. A poor response to the call to arms led to us having a bare eleven with even yours truly having to join the fray for a full game. I now know I'm permanently injured. We are in a league and we have several friendlies as well but there does not seem to be any particular interest in the nuances of this setup. Current personnel are just happy to play a few games here and there whether league or friendly. Fair enough sometimes we'll get a nice little win if the personnel available give us some strength and other times, this season more often than not, we will turn out and get a beating. Again, fair enough. Mind you one or two points of debate cease to be of any relevance in our set up. Eg. which is our best team, what is our best set up and  how far did tactics in a game benefit us or let us down. Just accept we turn up on a hope, wing and prayer that we have at least 11 players and players still young enough to know which boot goes on which foot.
They gained a 2-0 lead thanks to two controlled shots from the man Paine yet the floodgates did not open. Indeed we started to control the rest of the first half and were a tad unlucky to go in half time trailing only 2-1. Steve ended a constructive move by driving home into the corner albeit assisted slightly by a goalkeeping fumble.
Second half some of us claimed to be on the wrong end of linesman Chris Cox's flag. Ouch! Two goals resulted. I thought from my faraway vantage point that we were repeatedly caught far too square on several occasions from which their three second half goals resulted. They eased off and we were bereft of ideas going forward and all in all bereft of any forward play by the end, though Gerry went close to scoring.
Royal Oak, half a dozen in attendance, two wakes in a week, followed by Newcastle losing spinelessly to the Makkems in an awful game.
Happy Diwali!