WE DID IT

Well, fall soccer is definitely in full swing. We all have been dreaming of the day we could wake up at the ass crack of dawn on a cold 30 degree Sunday morning. For some reason the Harvard squad thinks it's a good idea to play at 9am even though there is no games following them. The Villans started rolling in early this week with the game faces on but some Villans apparently don't know what a GPS is or even mapquest, or maybe the car was just too smokey to see the road signs... About 5 mins to kick we had 14 ready to rock but we were missing one key component, a KEEPER. Brett, who volunteered his services in net was nowhere to be found. First thoughts were that he stopped at the local farm for some warm hot cider and pumpkin spiced donuts and just lost track of time sipping the cider in the apple field... About two mins before kick he showed up just in time to get the gloves on and take no warm-up shots. He did not mention anything about warm cider or donuts, what he did mention was that his car was towed and was EFFIN pissed off.

The Villans then took the field with very different looking squad on the back line. Kav, Gatchell, Sava and Garv did more than hold down the fort. These muther F'ers played 90 mins of stellar defense and shut down these bitches. The first half started very slow and sloppy. Field was small and knowing that these fools were 0-4, we thought it would be ok to just ease into the action which probably was the wrong approach. They struck first and Brett made an amazing save on what some called a 'beautiful header' and he wasn't afraid to let the crowd know it was a hell of a save. Rabbito thought he was playing in a rugby league in the first half as he had at least 4 hand balls.

Second half it all came together and we played like we’ve been playing with each other for years. Donal, who finally decided to show, had one hell of a game moving the ball down the right and left wings at outside half. Ryan and Tommy controlled the midfield and the 3 man fwd rotation put some pressure on the fat slow defenders. The defense continued to hold their own and just shut everything down. The two Villans to find the back of the net were Tommy and Gatchell. Gatch now leads the team in scoring and it was nice to see Tommy get on the board. Final score was 2-0, but the Villans could have easily put in 5-6. So we did it. So we did it. We got a win in the first half of the season.

Guy did show up in the second half in a full designer suit sniffing out any kind of alcoholic beverage…Post game was like no other this week. 9 bud lite cans for the team provided by Paul. Some villans were scared of the one beer, two straw approaches and decided to just hit the showers. Some of us who have problems decided to stick it out and straw it.