King George 4 Guts FC 0
Hachioji Park, Sunday January 29th.

KGFC warm up consisting of Iain attempting to touch his toes, Adz licking goal posts and Manager John looking like ET!
Hachioji Koen isnt the pleasantest of places at the best of times with its draconian rules and electric meter controlled floodlighting but when its zero degrees, feels like -3 according to my weather app, and the wind is howling it becomes even less so. This was compounded by the fact that only a few hours before kick-off devil-bearded goalkeeper Elbow had mailed John to let him know he couldnt play due to a family function he had forgotten about. Whether this meant he had forgotten he had children, had discovered he had even more or had just remembered who he actually was is still unclear. John asked James to use his vast network of soccer contacts to get an emergency keeper but this was a fruitless request as Bates spent the next 2 hours trying to find the family function on his iPhone. Without the stocky resilience of Tomoki to deputise, the gloves were given to Sean to tend nets and the team lined up thus: continue reading…



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