I SCORED A GOAL FFS

the guys weren't too bad, and i did make a point blank double save in same game, but yeah i fucking hate ultra serious 5-a-side. i'm competitive but not to the extent of utter dickishness and a bad atmos that you get in some 5-a-side games. you want competitive but jokes and pisstaking imo.

ILX 5-a-side has gotta happen

seriously. make it so.

there was a five week period of work games last year that had three or four fistfights, and it was awesome in many ways but in terms of enjoying the football not so much. a lot of out better players fucked off out of it and set up another game, i hope they're enjoying screaming at each other and the occasional headbutt whereever they are now RIP big men

Ronan I do believe we are all meeting this Sunday for pool? It shall be discussed there.

jeez it's CHILLY HERE OUTSIDE THE ILXLONDON ZONE

move here or gtfo

contradictory

I mean to destroy you

i am a doubt for sunday as friend has suggested a pub trip to watch the ryder cup...which is tempting.

xp that's his whispered trashtalk during 5 a side

o ok

well...I'm sure something can be worked out even as dmac rubs his hands at the fall of our empire

only rubbing my hands cos it's chilly out here, you just dont listen

haha...i will try and do both, and obviously post this on the pool thread.

metaphorically chilly

never come in from the cold, agent dunphy

i played 5-a-side regularly with ilxors darren and daniel japanese giraffe.

tonight: standing straight in front of goal, lovely ball played squarely to my feet and i lean to my left and completely miskick it 'footballs biggest bloopers' style. sheepishly run back to defend and stay there for the duration of the game. we ended up losing by 3 goals.

I MISSED A GOAL FFS

scored 13/14 goals in one hour of 5s about a month back, everything I touched seemed to hit the net. it was kinda incredible.

love those days, though they're few and far between

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCzAxY6Iv8

A pretty compact execution with my right foot over the keeper's shoulder. Happy that my run was able to do justice to the through-ball and a better finish than it probably needed to be against a pretty awful keeper.

I'm left-footed btw.

got to keep it a tight, sure motion on yr bad foot imo.

All of which smugness should not overshadow the fact that it came amidst a fine team performance, a 7-3 victory including a hat-trick for an aging scotsman and a result that hopefully maybe means my team is no longer bottom of the league.

hate competitive games tbh. it's 'not me'.

took a long ball over my shoulder on the left this week, said deft touch switching it non-bouncing to my right for a le tiss faux-cunt into the goalie's near side.

well, ok, the first touch came off my foot but i recovered so's you'd never know and meant the rest.

"competitive" I can enjoy, tonight being a fine example, but if i'm not having fun - generally when members of my team or theirs are taking it far too seriously - then I struggle to see the point of being there at all.

your goal sounds glorious btw.

yeah it was half zamora that time, half le tiss that time, more that norn irish dude that'll never do it again and everyone's wondering 'now, i know he meant that but did he mean that' tbh.

ah yeah, that's the competitive you can always do without- a close game with a good vibe is the perfect setting, two mins to go and it's 19-18 kind of thing

to be fair to our opponents this evening, they had to play the whole match with no subs where had three in the second half (and rolled them on and off at will) so i'm fairly sure were exhausted by the end. we also went ahead in the first minute when their 'keeper made a shocking rob green-esque fumble on the line.

in the end we probably should have scored a few more.

you have to take those nights tho, cos sure as anything one of the times you'll be facing some shorter version of dolph lungdren that destroys you with ease. lyfe is balance imo

Yeah, experienced one of those the last time I played when another agency spanked us 10-1. I don't think we're under illusions that tonight was any more than a West Ham versus Wigan affair, and I enjoyed every minute.

last night: ball played at my feet, im 10 foot from goal try power it past the keeper at the near post. rebounds off the post and onto my head. YEAHHH GET IN

Scored a couple since then. Last week's was a fine team effort, a product of a series of short first time passes to neutralise their defence followed by a single motion shot to beat the keeper at his near post.

Assisted an almost identical one for a teammate a few minutes later. We still got stuffed 10-4.

scoring too many to count in these glory days of five games a week good weather, but last night i hit an absolute pearler full on the run across the keeper rising in a straight line into the far top corner, a once-a-year or better strike tbh.

From the right touchline, prob 25 yards or so? I dunno what yr avg 7 a side pitch length is

Off to another game now. As i said, glory days

he will have hoped hubris will not have cursed this rich vein of form

it will have been noted that five a sude goals ought not to have been in short supply tbf

ilx poster garda will have wished he lived in ireland sometimes just so he could play 5 a side with his friends.

Any interest in playing a jumpers for goalposts game in Regents Park tomorrow evening?

yeah is that on or are you suggesting ilxorz sort it? i'd be up for that for sure. what time?

Nah, it's a disorganized, organized thing. From half six near the hub. Will webmail yoy

yeah my proper email is my full name all one word at gmail.com, assuming you know my first and second name!

suits me well, i'm unemployed so any positive activities are good.

Done. Any other ilxors also more than welcome

shit's catching up

Sixth hour of weekend football and everything packed in

I tweaked a hamstring ffs

hubris

na still scored a few decent efforts so fu-bris

neither ilxor scored a goal last night in regents park, though both kept clean sheets. think nick actually saved some shots with his hands unlike me, didn't use my hands once in that amateur keeper way

i played last night, tweaked hamstring and all, was shit like a fox made out of actual shit

pretty sure i didn't even have a shot on goal, unless you count the fauxver head kick that went upwards and nowhere near the goal.

it was a bit of a one-sided affair with ronan contributing a sterling performance and, unlike myself, an admirable work rate.

all that runnin payin off for the young irishman

"admirable work rate" was more like "shit my close control is horrendous from lack of play, but I think I am fairly physically fit so I can try my best to do something which in my mind can constitute 'breaking up the play' and thus at least feel i've contributed"

had a few wild shots at goal too...

......

Ha, yeah. Check mate in nine moves ffs!