U.S 0 v 3 Olympic Mcalister pk 12.30 30.08.08

A few mid season acquisitions made by Olympic could be the reason they have made some good progress up the table of late,those additions were to be the difference on the field for them as well. As Olympic ran away with a flattering 3-0 win, in what appears to be the last game of the season.

The Stallions though can't be held blameless in what would go on to be possibly the worst display of the season,the Stallions would ship 3 goals.
Three pretty shite goals by any ones standards.

One of the new Olympic additions in the midfield helped create the first goal, setting up another Olympic player clearly 1.5 metres offside,with a through ball which split the central defence and was dispatched past Jamie (having his first start as keeper for the season) 1-0 after 6 or so minutes

When you chip the keeper from from the 6 yard line Aaron Lister,you'd think your team mates would be a little more forth coming in congratulating you,that is unless of course you chip your own keeper, as is the case in this goal the 2nd.

Aaron had come on as a sub and after two minutes and two touches of the football helped put us 2-0 down after less than 20 mins.one of those unlucky, as your running back the ball hits you and it goes into the back of the net jobbies, simply dumb luck.

Aaron however was looking for a hole to swallow him up, when that never came, he feigned a blood injury and left the field holding his nose like the Niagara falls was flowing out of it.
However stemming the non existent blood flow quickly enabled him to retake the field.

Maybe the sight of people drinking beer on the sideline @12.30 in rather fine weather had most of the team thinking of the celebratory drinks after the game as opposed to the game at hand.
because the football didn't get much better,giving Olympic way to much time on the ball, our first touches turning too poo and allowing balls to bounce on free headers it was making it all to easy for the opposition to hold onto the most flattering of leads.

Not much changed after halftime Brooks and Jamie swapped places with the lethargy from the first half continuing in the second.
There were some nice moments of football,moments of individual brilliance from players,but the game was well gone.

The big scare of the 2nd half was when Jamie went down,an innocuous challenge had Jamie fall to the ground in a screaming heap with fears he had dislocated his knee,a call was made to ring an ambulance, but thankfully, this was not required, Jamie would play no further part in the game however.

The third goal for Olympic came from a counter attack that left some of our defence for dead,we'd all pushed up trying to get at least one goal, but we were left short at the back and a cross from the right corner of the 18 yard box found the back of the net instead of an Olympic player, it's not how their scored I guess.

So all in all not the best way to sign off on a relatively good season for the Stallions.
With so much of the season lost too rain, it will be a long summer waiting for the start next season.

Stallions : Jamie(gk)Graham,Nick G,Brooks,Mike,Joe,Paddy,Panda,Nick W,Rob,Gus.
Subs : Aaron,Spencer,Jason.


Goals: Olympic 6mins,17mins & 78mins


for those dual Stallions playing Cricket this year, good luck