And repeat.
Logistical nightmare for Sassco. And this time it was a race in Newcastle which caused four of our players to be missing. We’ll skip over the part where we advised everyone in the group chat to avoid central Newcastle 😆
We then had to beg, borrow and steal three players from our opponents, Walkergate, who are very gracious in providing them. They didn’t have to. Retrospectively, had we won or drawn that game with their players, I would have told the league to award them a win mainly because they didn’t have to do that.
We started off promisingly; we were holding them off quite a bit. Sangha, in goal, having last played that 11-a-side position in the early 2000s, made a couple of decent stops, but then they scored and you would expect the floodgates to open – but it didn’t.
The lads drafted in for us were all young and fast, bearing in mind that our average age is roughly 40 and over.
We soon equalised but then the problems happened when Gash Taylor went off injured. But even then we did well and we fired in a couple of goals. Despite them being 3-1 one up we actually clawed it back to 3-3.
However, just as we thought we’d settled, the game spun from end to end. Our new lads missed a good few chances and so did our old ones. But Mick Rawlinson and Phil Railton shared two goals each in an eventful 8-4 defeat.
Again, thanks to Walkergate for supplying our emergency players.
