Dry screaming and ’no ordinary goals please’ by Royal decree
Solstice day is a watershed: it does open the doors to winter but il leaves behind the shortest day of the year so people can look forward to a brighter future. The latter was very much the spirit animating the 18 players and the thousands of fans today who witnessed a first timer: in fact the usual pitch was waterlogged and after a heated debate it was decided to play in the greener and drier strip of land adjacent the Palace. When the heat of the battle subsided you could almost hear the Royals breathing.
Were they behind the decision to bring FDs closer to them? We will never know but there was an undeniable extra will to perform and behave. A new code of behaviour was instantly introduced to preserve the etiquette.The Royal head of local compliance distributed a copy of the famous ‘The scream’ picture by Munch to suggest that emotions could be very well expressed but not heard, a sort of dry screaming scheme.
The new policy lasted literally one minute until the first screamer was scored. Giancarlo received a ball wide on the right flank well outside the box where no one would have dared to shoot at goal. ‘I missed 100% of the shots I didn’t take’ was the last thought to hit Giancarlo mind before he hit an earth to air missile across the goal. Paride did not make a move which 99.9% periodic of the cases means that the ball is wide: instead it hit the very opposite top corner inflating the net to the breaking point. Giancarlo was the only one to believe what just happened and wheeled away screaming making the Inzaghi type of celebration the compliant version of the day. Khaled unreal bicycle kick goal has now a real contender for the goal of the season. Thank God for the new goals! Before such an act would have sparked a 50/50 in/out ferocious endless debate.
Fans had not had the time to pinch themselves that on the opposite front Johannes converted gloriously a free kick under the bar the way only Miralem Pjanic gets close doing these days. Unbibbed seized the momentum and Andrea put in place screamer number three with a shot from the distance that Tony L could only admire but not stop as no one could. It was like the Royals had not only requested FDs to play closer but also quipped ‘and by the way no ordinary goals please…’.
At 2-1 for the Unbibbed you only had to look at each of the Bibbed faces to be sure that the score would have changed very quickly. It is in time of need that players like ‘El Capitan’ justify their nickname and Roberto duly obliged bagging an hat trick. Also on one text book one-touch scheme Francesco put the finishing touch to a team move of such pure and clean geometry that had the Greek commentator excitingly yet solemnly stating ‘ Euclid lives on!’.
However overwhelming the Bibbed reaction was not enough to call the game off yet as on the other front Johannes unbelievably scored another three goals. They would have been even more had he not been restrained few times by his Dad rock solid defending with no family discount applied. The score was however put on the safe side for the Bibbed by Francesco adding two more and Yasin once with Julien bringing home the golden goal to complete a Bibbed remarkable win.
Many players today like Roberto, Yasin and Giancarlo would have easily snatched the Man of the Match award in any other game but voters felt that today the trophy had to be a private property of the Wittig family, blissfully unaware that probably in this very moment they still are tackling each other to claim the full possession!
Probably not the last game of the year as next Saturday Thomas will rally the remainers for another chapter of FDs never ending tale.
Bibs-Unbibs 9-5
Scorers:
Bibs: Roberto (3), Francesco (3), Giancarlo, Yasin, Julien (Golden Goal)
Unbibs: Johannes (4), Andrea
Teams
Bibbed: Tony L, Hannes, Thomas, Cethan, Julien, Yasin, Giancarlo, Roberto, Francesco
Unbibbed: Paride, Adam, Johannes, Ben, Brady, Federico, Andrea, Jamal
Picture: a glorious rainbow shines over the Football Dads