Lancaster team
Awa in action
The spectators
So hungry!
Ilyas took this picture
Caught in the net
Look at Awa's knees!
Yesterday evening I received a call from Syahir asking me whether Awa and myself can play for Lancaster football team again in the Sheffield Malaysian Games. Since we have nothing else to do on Saturday, I just agreed. So this morning, the whole troop went to Sheffield. Ilyas and Maisarah were quite excited because this will be the first time they will be able to watch their father plays football.
We drew our first two matches, 0-0 with Warwick 2 and 2-2 with Team 1403 (I played in this one). Our import striker, Anthony from Hong Kong scored both goals. In our third match, our keeper doesn't want to play so Awa had to be a stand-in keeper. Fortunately, we managed to beat Bradford 3 with a 2-0 scoreline (Again, Anthony scored both goals). We have to win our last match against Bristol and psychologically we have the advantage since we have beaten them 3-0 last time in the Manchester Games. Awa was the keeper again and after a nervous start we finally managed to score our first goal and afterwards the goals kept coming from the Lancaster team. I played as a defender and there was one time when I managed to dribble away from two of their players and was about to shoot towards their goal when another player tackled me from behind. And I didn't hear this but Awa heard that the player said, ' Sorry, pakcik' to me. Ciss!
In the end, we won 4-1 with Anthony again scoring all those goals. We have achieved what we have fail to do in the Manchester Games, which is qualifying to the next round, in this case, a Last 16. Our opponent this time is Bradford 1, the group winner and a very tough one. However, we managed to score first through Syahir, surprisingly his first goal in this tournament. Unfortunately, Bradford 1 seem able to score from any angle or any position and by the start of the second half we were already 1-3 behind. Don managed to score another goal for Lancaster but Bradford 1 replied with another goal. In the end, we lost 2-4 but it was really a good performance from the Lancaster team.
Meanwhile, Jo with Ilyas and Maisarah were busy wondering about in the sports centre, visiting the food hall and playing with other kids. On the way back home, the kids slept throughout the whole journey.
4 comments:
glory,glory,glory uniiiiiited...
eh, silap..
last time i checked, man utd. still on the top of the league with 4 points difference and one game in hand. if chelsea win today, the pretender will go down to 3rd place, where it should belong. so it is indeed glory glory man utd!!
I realised there was an over-weighed defender and a Ronaldinho who played goalkeeper in your team.
If not for that goal-poacher from Hong Kong, your team would have lost earlier. Congratulations to Liverpool for thrashing MU 4-1. and gave other hopefuls some breath in the coming few weeks
If we finished 3rd...it wont matter. Man u can win all the cup they are playing this season. heck, go ahead and win all...it wont hurt us a single bit...but how sweet was the win last saturday ha?... kena tibai kat home lak tu...ish ish ish....
prior to the game, i got so many sms from my arrogant man u fans saying how they gonna trash liverpool at the so called their 'fortress'...hahahaha...after 90 mins. they went silent...i asked, aikk???...tido dah?? 48 hours later, they are still very much haven't reply any...typical.
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