Perfect parity
The one thing Covid has not taken away is the pressing need for a new stadium. That became evident when the 18 football-deprived players found their pitch ring fenced for re-turfing. They settled for the strip of land at touching distance from the Royals at the Palace.
Were Harry, Meghan and Archie there together with Will, Kate, Georgie, Charlotte and Louis to witness the first game of the decade as well as of the second lockdown? We don’t know but honestly was there anything better for them to engage with? Interestingly some Canadian accent was detected among the bodyguards at the entrance of the Palace. The Brit ones took a very low profile wary that Meghan has fired more personnel than Abramovich had coaches.
As for the game it started with a tentative Astra Z v Pfizer but it resorted to the traditional Bibbed v Unbibbed, as the season had to restart on few certainties. The teams selected process turned out to be very accurate as it took a good half an hour to break the deadlock by virtue of a rejuvenated Adam who fired a shot past Tony L.
The Unbibbed retaliated in no time by turning the score to a 3-1 with the Kids leading the score as well as Francesco adding one with a thunder shot.
The game lived up to its rollercoaster nature with a massive swing of fortunes that saw the Unbibbed scoring five in a row to fix the score at 6-3. A rookie by the name of Youssef from Tunisia was instrumental in helping the Bibbed remuntada. Everyone would have called it ‘game over’ but the Unbibbed would have none of that.
The fight was both against the Bibbed and obscurity as a unsympathetic sun was about to set on the Unbibbed hopes. It was just not to happened as they collected the last energies to reach an unthinkable 6-6 while Tony L denied a countless numbers of goals. After which it was just not possible to tell a player from a tree, such was the dark after 1h40’ of restless playing.
It was perfect parity on a rollercoaster: a fitting tribute to the end of another lockdown and the hope it will be the last.
Few players were deserving of the Man of the Match title: Yasin, Tony L, Giuseppe but it was Adam to snatch the first award of the year, both for its brace and an energetic performance. The trophy though remains locked in the Club cabinet until Adam has passed the anti-drug test…