Fixture Balls Up saves Friends from getting beaten by 7 men.

Billy Shite at Hoglands Park for the first Cup game of the season for the Mighty Village as they take on Friends CC who are a new team to the league.  With them being a new team and being called Friends and all that, The Village selection committee took the unprecedented step of only naming only 8 players in the starting line-up.  The 8 men good and true were The Big Dog, Spaul, Skip, Danny de Vito, Seasick Steve and Soldier Sunderland and two debutants in Ozzy Sheikh and Lt.James Wilson who had been dragged out of his ivory tower by the Mackem boy to play with the oiks.

 

Hoglands Park has suffered vandalism by unmentionables over the winter and so only one pitch is available instead of the usual two.  The iffy weather meant that the outfield was clear of students, wino’s and crack heads but there was one problem in that aside from the Mighty Village’s 7 players (The Fake Sheikh never showed up), there were 33 other players from Friends, Hedge End Hawks and Sarisbury.  It turns out that the Village and Friends were supposed to be at Lordshill but no one knew, aside from the groundsman at Hoglands and the groundsman at Lordshill who was probably wondering where everyone was.

 

There were brief discussions as to which match was going to be played but common sense prevailed and the fact that The Village were at the wrong ground meant that the other game took place.  It was nothing to do with The Mighty Village only having seven men and the Skip telling them to go to the pub, quickly.  Friends CC weren’t terribly happy and were smelling a rat but what can you do, when the opposition are all in the pub, except come back and play at Lordshill Rec next week.  Roll on Thursday when The Mighty Village are at Hoglands Park again for El Crappico agsint The Shire, hopefully without two other teams wanting to use the same pitch.

 

Billy Shite at Hoglands Park for the Southern Daily Arse