TML player Garry Robertson needs your help

At the beginning of January one of our players, Garry Robertson, who many of you will know, was at home when he suddenly collapsed and was taken to hospital and operated on a haemorraghing brain tumour. He is 33, recently married and had no previous signs of trouble. He spent 2 months in a coma but is now conscious and showing signs of improvement and was recently moved out of intensive care in Tokyo and is now at a rehabilitation centre in Yamanashi.
He can now recognise people and make small hand movements etc. but there is an amazingly long way to go and as a club we need to help him. Needless to say the medical costs will mount up – his parents have been out since he collapsed and Brian, his father, has effectively taken early retirement to be with his son. Realistically we could be looking at a year or more of rehabilitation.

One of the things we are looking at doing to raise funds is a big raffle and to this end we have all of the members of the club looking at possible prize donations from companies and organisations they know. These could take all forms – products, gift vouchers for dinner/dept stores, cash etc… As this is a personal and not corporate issue, what we can do for potential donors is negligible, but Footy Japan has kindly agreed to ensure all will get a mention on the TML website and in addition we will also give a big mention on our own club website although the readership is much more limited. I know this isn’t much but as mentioned it is a personal effort by everyone in the team.

Any donations at all from any company you work for or know will be much appreciated by all members of the club.

Details on the raffle itself will follow.

If you are interested in helping then please send a mail to bfcvagabonds@gmail.com

Kind regards

Richard Straughan

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TML Golden Boot

DIVISION 1 

Dan Clark 13  (HIBERNIAN FC)

Kenjiro Kiyooka 12  (PANACHE PANTHERS)

Rafai Eddy 10  (SWISS KICKERS)

Sean Murphy 10  (FC INTERNATIONAL)

Christophe Apke 9  (FC INTERNATIONAL)

Ben Fallman 8  (SWISS KICKERS)

Kunii Tomomitsu  8  (HIBERNIAN FC)

DIVISION 2

Matt Wallace 18  (YCAC  2nds)

Phil Cockerill 16  (BFC VAGABONDS)

Benjamin Anderson 15  (SALA FC)

Daisuke Takahashi 13  (ZION FC)

James Pounder  11  (BRITISH EMBASSY)

DIVISION 3

Vags and their amazing technicolored dream boots!

It started with Dan’s boots being only the third most luminous pair on view. A feat never before seen in feet. Masa and Muzzy scared The Living Daylights out of us with their pukely orange contraptions.

Vags arrived far from sure of a victory against a tough and much improved Embassy, the same Embassy who had turned us over 4-0 in the first meeting of the season I might add, but won’t because it was painful. A win was, of course, the aim but the most important thing was to battle and do ourselves justice, which was certainly not the case at the prior, not to be mentioned here at all, meeting.

This aim was duly delivered from the off and after 7 minutes 52 seconds there was some good work by Lyndsey and Dan which caused havoc in the opposition area and when the ball came across to the Man With the Golden Gun, Cockerill, he dispatched with aplomb – or maybe apeach.

Richard screamed a couple of times early on at perceived injustice from the line – but Orlando said Dr No and Steve also sent a Moonraker which dropped left of the keeper’s left hand post – otherwise it would have been a goal.

Wayne and Lyndsey both tried a Thunderball but high wide and not very handsome at all. At half time it was mentioned that You Only Live Twice and so this kind of effort wasn’t attempted again in the second half.

Dan was given a Licence to Kill and had a 45% x 2 with one on ones. Missed both but should take a Quantum of Solace from forcing saves, albeit fairly comfortable ones, from Keith both times. He also had a difficult looping header off the top of the net in the first half.

Vags pushed in the second too but Embassy more than held their own in an auberginey-mustard Portuguese salted cod kind of way and things settled into a full blooded and, at times, nervy tete a tete. Phil looked to have given Vags a stranglehold when he got a header in with A View to a Kill but it smacked off the bar and then he got the rebound and back in again, only to be cleared off a spot a smidgeon in front of the line. Good stuff but no result and the nerves piled up.

Fraser also slid a scrumptious ball through to Phil but it was yet again snuffed out.

Selwyn then put Vags two up anyway though. A through ball seemed to be beyond him but he got a toe in just in front of the keeper and the ball wriggled free but wide – Mr Walsh retrieved the ball quickly and, with the keeper still prone, spun it goalwards and life switched to slow mo as the defender seemed to have it as it blackcurranted towards goal – creeped in off the post nonetheless and Selwyn pointed his Goldfinger heavenwards.

After going two up it was mooted that the Embassy could still come back into it but a comment or two on the sidelines snickered, ‘never’. Needless to say the Embassy boys then scored …………… so obviously we need to learn to Never Say Never Again. It was an absolutely stonking header off a corner – no complaints there.

A wonder moment lit up the game a la the fireworks at Disney Land when Brad (from Gedford) produced a Cruyff turn, carefully nurtured over the last 27 years, and how effective it was. Next one is due 2039. Was ever so good all the same.

As the game finished Mr Maulvi Mohammed Arsala Rahmani, the former Taliban foreign minister, and now proprietor of the high quality family restaurant ‘Flying Garden’ was spotted rubbing his hands with glee as the Vags left the ground. Disappointed he was to be then as the victorious mob headed straight to The Pong for some Casino Royale followed by some Octopussy.

The post match sheninigans were somewhat dampened by Wayne’s Kenneth Williams impersonation circa ‘Carry On Up the Kyhber’ on the train however, and this should definitely have been For Your Eyes Only.

Okum dokum, I could make a vainglorious effort to go through the rest of the titles but this report is more than a tadge too contrived as it is and The Spy Who Loved Me might just be beyond my faculties (although there was Natasha….but then again difficult to work this round to the salubrious Fukuda Denshi)………..

So toodoolooforthenoo

RS