I SCORED A GOAL FFS

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...

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Wayne?

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been getting into this band a lot lately...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-NNnjVWJA9U/TORS0RSI8GI/AAAAAAAAAg4/ciwBGt-9udI/s1600/Stereophonics.jpg

you may have heard of them.

gotta log off actually, friend's granny is coming to visit and i need to let her into his flat.

o suuure

bump, what we been up to

goals not really a part of my game (phil neville/ian holloway persistent clogger with occasional delusions of vieiran elegance)

arrowed a nice one from a cutback right into the corner past a stubborn goalie to nick a tight game yesterday though, albeit with the suspicion i only got enough time to execute cos the defender thought i'd give it the customary shank

those stories i told on sep 26 are both true, fyi

Been carrying an injury for a few months, so i've been shitter than usual tbh. No great goals to relate.

Nando?

played last night and was rubbish at about a stone too heavy

playing again tonight, and will hopefully have some more talent around me

gutted the new france home doesn't give me +5 on all stats

jays would be nice to go back to the days of only one stone too heavy

Lol 30 next week huh

Michael Owen's only 31

ya but he's on a downward curve

crushed it last night btw

matchwinning last kick, cut in from left into box stepped over with left flicked it in off the post with right heel. Don't think anyone knows what i did tbh.

You want me to run the Player of the 10s poll right now, is that it?

ya while im hot

played well tonight, back in dublin with my old crew and some others i didn't know as well. opened the scoring after robbing the ball, was pleased, nice composed finish. later on tho we had a ridiculous flowing move, turned someone and did a one two with another player, with him back heeling the return pass. perfect one on one chance and i hit the post. we did score a great goal later on where i took a pass and then back heeled it to put another guy through.

my team was 3 really good mates, one young chap who knows a friend's younger brother, and this other loudmouth twat who was "a talker". you know those players who non-stop are like "let's use it lads" or slating everyone else etc. except he wasn't even that good. he had a go at the young bloke, who prob was about 20 and a much better player than most of us, so i fucking read him the riot act, was hilarious. "shut up and play football, all you're doing is talking shite". he barely said a word after. even his own friends were lolling and had a word with me after the game to say "fair play".

can't stand that "let's use it lads" or "support" generic shit when it's someone just spouting off.

i don't use the generic phrases but i do constantly tell my youngers bros specifically what they're doing wrong, to the point where i'm just trolling these days tbh.

Remember that goal ?romario?scored against utd in the world club championships? The 'flick it up and over the defender while facing away from goal'? I did that last night, amongst several nutmegs and one or two mazy dribbles. Didn't know meself tbh, played again tonight and i was shite.

yeah i don't mind now and again but this bloke was relentless, i mean he was literally providing a running criticism/advice service. awful dickhead.

most stuff came off for me tonight also, and the most encouraging thing is it's the first time i've exercised and not felt shin splints in months.

footy is ok for shinsplints, iirc

Shinsplints suuuuuuck tho

i was getting them other times, like my left shin in particular would get sore even walking to work and shit. back running moderately this week i reckon to test it out. beer gut getting out of hand.

walking destroys my legs, running less so, football not at all.

Edmundo, not Romario