Kevinho saves the day!

The first fifteen minutes of our first game of the second session of indoor soccer was a real hangover from the last game of the first session......if that makes any sense to you! Before the first quarter of the game was over we were 3 zip down and cold as ice. We were playing Guilford Hawks who are a good team but one we have beaten before. They tore into our early lethargic play and scored three simple goals. This insult to our pride seemed to wake us up, and in particular Scotty, who, in a mad rush of controlled adrenalin, decided to take on the opposition single handedly. He slammed in three fantastic, unstoppable goals, without reply, to get us to even stevens by the half. Our new(ish) goalie Kevinho had also kept us in the game with some really great fast reaction, instinctive saves.
The second half started off OK but our defensive frailties were quickly on display again as a simple cross out left found a Guilford player unmarked at the back post and he headed the ball past a helpless, but blameless, Kevinho. We then chased the game to get the equalizer throwing three up front. This allowed them to fire at will on our goal but again Kevinho was up to the challenge with some great saves. And, when a few shots eventually got past him, they hit the post or the bar. Our equalizer came from a move that started when i received a great ball from Pink down the left hand side. I was surrounded by at least 6 players....or maybe it was just 2....but by a magical piece of Christiano Ronaldo type skill i managed to spin past them and send the ball over to an on rushing Heckelator....he hates the name by the way.... who slammed the equalizing goal into the net. Both teams then played out the last ten minutes in a rather cagey, energy drained style to earn a well deserved draw. Good game, great goals by Scotty and outstanding saves by Kevinho!

In other news, the fitness regimen is progressing well with 6 players signed up from the first week reporting in very respectable scores. Please send me your points for the first week if you have not done so already and your second week points on Monday.

This Sunday Celtic will be playing Rangers in the League cup final in Scotland! Kick off at 10am EST and available at Celtic bars all over the World ( http://www.celticbars.com/ ) and the Celtic web site ( http://www.celticfc.net/ ) .....should be a good game....and they better win! See you next game.