These “player ratings” appeared on the excellent West Brom website
http://www.baggies.com/ after an inept display against bottom of the table Sunderland a few weeks ago. Interesting that the irate fan who compiled the report should compare the Baggies with the aluminium boys. The story of Sunday league football from the Black Country to Bierzo country…
I have watched better Sunday pub games for free!!
The Albion 0 - 1 The Crown Inn
• Kev C - shouldnt be playing really, too old but his missus washes the kit so gets a game.
• Get Carter - not much good and cant get a game anywhere else but is the managers nephew so gets in.
• Watto and Robbo - the chuckle bros, still they can have a laugh about the oggie over a pint after the game.
• Inna - nice name good hair cut and has a good DVD collection that comes in useful Sunday afternoons after chucking out time.
• Wally - holds the team together and good drinking buddies with the manager who lives next door.
• Ellington - always get late in from all nighters, always still peed up, so cant be bothered.
• Nicholson - young lad off the estate, theres no one else because Earnie and Jase wouldnt help take the nets down last week and had a bust up with the manager and dont want to play amymore.
• The manager - doesnt really know what hes doing but no-one else will do it. Still, he lives next door to the pub. Cant wait for the game to be over so he can rush back for dommies and whiskey chasers.
We too lost against "Sunderland" this Saturday or rather to the previously win-less, bottom of the table OMD, a disorganized ragbag of a team littered with veteran Argentinians, overweight Columbians and enthusiastic 14-year olds who just wouldn’t stop running. Oh, and their goalie was only slightly taller than our own “wee man”. Not that we got near him very often.
I feel unable to write a match report on this one. Only to say that once again we were 2-1 up at half time. Unfortunately the visionary Mingoya senior had injured himself whilst stretching to head home our second goal and stylish French centre half Jean Phillipe limped off with a pulled hamstring. It says a lot for our team when the loss of our two elder statesmen, with a combined age that surpasses 90, leads to total organizational collapse. Lack of substitutes also meant that we were reduced to 10 men and 4 OMD goals in the second half produced another tuneless weekend for the off-song aluminium boys.
Final score: Aluminium Boys 2 OMD 5
Away to the village team of Toral de Merayo next week.
