El Impacto 2006-2007.
No, this isnt the name of some dodgy 80s Spanish heavy metal band on tour. The aluminium factory gave up on us as a lost cause and this season we had new sponsors which meant new shirts and a wacky new name
El Impacto F.C.
El Impacto is in fact a bar so were now officially a pub team. (Arent they all?)
Last season wed played in the Brazil strip evoking images of Pele, Zico, Ronaldinho, La Copa cabana and jogo bonito. We finished bottom but one.
This season weve changed the shorts from blue to green. Now think Norwich City. Think Robert Fleck, Delia Smith, The Norfolk Broads, Bernard Matthews and his flu-infested turkeys. An obscure English second division outfit is more in line with the robust, up-and-under style of football we play. In fact we ended up playing a lot better as Norwich City and even won a few games. There were historic victories against the intriguingly named Spartak Villafranquino and against the quarrymen of Puente Domingo Florez. And although we lost our final game of the season this morning wed already achieved some sort of mid table respectability.
http://www.veteranosbierzo.com/clasificacion.php
My own personal tally for 2006-7 has been 3 goals which for a striker is a bit on the crap side. Two goals were tap-ins and the third was a wicked deflection which went in off my chin and left me unable to chew for a couple of days. I called it my Jimmy Hill moment. I suspect nobody understood what I was on about.
The team photo is the team photo of a Sunday league side just about anywhere. From Bilston to El Bierzo. Ill miss the footie
now back to the running.
