A creative Northerner now in Datchet. Designer by trade, musician by hobby, hair by Edgie.

Archive for July, 2009|Monthly archive page

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Relegation avoided

In The beautiful game on July 29, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Despite a 5-1 defeat to title chasing DLA, Torpedo avoided relegation after our nearest rival lost to the league leaders. Once again, we let things slip in the second half after being only 1-0 down at half time. Although there was too much activity around our goal with quite a bit of work to do for me! Second half saw even more shots and saves and I got the MOM for probably being the busiest player on the field. That’s two for the season now. We did score a nicely worked goal finished of by Tom – who now has 6 goals in 3 games since his comeback – so even against good teams we can still produce.

So with still one game to play, next week should be a relaxed and celebratory affair. Ironically we are playing the team we were battling against for the drop, so they will no doubt want to put one over on us.

Either way, I’m looking forward to that end-of-season beer.


On theme changes…

In Uncategorized on July 25, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Thinking about changing my theme again. I’ve seen a few blogs using Cutline, but I also like Emigre , Grid Focus and Twenty-Eight Thirteen. I would try and use Sandbox as I’ve seen some cool sites using it, but I’m not sure where to start. Looks like more tutorials…

Any suggestions, or do you like the way it is?

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A point to prove

In The beautiful game on July 22, 2009 at 9:00 pm

It was my wedding anniversary this week, so no football…

In my absence the guys did good by getting a 4-4 draw. Haven’t heard the match report yet, but I bet it was a cracker! WE ARE STAYING UP, SAY WE ARE STAYING UP!

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Moving on up

In The beautiful game on July 15, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Back-to-back wins for the first time this season have moved Torpedo out of the bottom two. Welcoming back our top scorer Tom, he wasted no time adding to his tally with two goals in the first half. A sweet left foot finish from Lloyd early in the second and it should have been game over, but we once again got the jitters and conceded two goals to make for a nervous finish, but we held on.

Other results mean that we probably can’t finish any higher, but with a return game against the team below us, it should be in our hands to stay up.

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One Minute Portrait #4

In Art for art's sake on July 11, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Lizzie 05 09

Another painting from the get together a while back. Thanks Lizzie for wearing shades and big hair!

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The late, late, late show

In The beautiful game on July 8, 2009 at 9:50 pm

Downpours late in the afternoon sent the traffic into chaos, and I was looking at another late showing to a 7 o’clock kick off. Luckily, the congestion eased and I made it to the game just before half-time.

Playing the bottom side in the league, a win was vital to start our push to avoid relegation. We were 2-1 up when I arrived, so that all important first goal after the break was going to be even more so. And it came and what should have been a coast to the finish again became a panic. Two quick goals and we were back in a fight, only to be saved by Donny who skipped through and rounded the keeper just before the final whistle.

In the post match analysis, it turned out that we started the game with four men! So our 4-3 win was well deserved. Four games to go and it looks like a straight fight between us and the team above to avoid the bottom two.

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Moonlight shootout

In The beautiful game on July 2, 2009 at 10:31 pm

I’ve been moonlighting in goal for my brother-in-law’s team for the past few weeks and Torpedo didn’t have a game this week. Unfortunately after a friendly last week I caught a ball awkwardly and damaged my wrist. Thankfully, it doesn’t seem too bad, but was still a bit sore for this weeks game.

I’d been a bit of a bad omen for the ‘Boca Seniors’ and we hadn’t won any of the games I’d played for them so far. So 3-1 down at half time was looking a familiar story. But the lads dug in and managed to draw level. The game ended at 3-3 but it was a cup tie, so went straight to penalties. We scored our first two and our opponents had missed one, but we missed our last so it was down to the last pen. As on the other two, I guessed the right way but the ball was off target anyway and I had my first victory with the team.

The heat of summer continues, and back to the Camden League next week.

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