Perhaps an insulting way to start a post but really, that’s what I said to the team’s captain who called me up for the game and even told me I’m gonna play in it the whole game and just 2 minutes prior to the match he announces that he brought another player who’s gonna play in my place for the first half. I’m never picky and never want to start drama, so I agreed. But perhaps it was really wrong of me to do so. Because in the half-time period he said “NO, you’re NOT getting in.” and said nothing else. They were 2-0 down at half time. Right after the break they scored a goal to make it 2-1. It all AGAIN looked good but soon 2 out of the 3 new players he had brought were out of breaths 5 minutes after the break. They eventually went down 5-1 after some funny goals scored by a team which ALSO featured forwards who can’t score a goal even if the goal is empty. Then right after the 5th goal, he says: “Now you can come!” to which I replied: “No, thank you sir.” I usually wouldn’t call him sir neither do I usually turn down an offer like that, but the reason was that he expects me to pay full price for a match that I only get to play 7 minutes in? I’m not THAT much in love with football. Not today.

Then they continued on and on until it was 7-1. They didn’t lose hope (Wow, really?!) until they scored a goal which was really one scored by an accident. 7-2 and 30 seconds later, a mix up cancelled it out to make it 8-2. A funny game and also sad at the same time. If I had started the game, it would clearly have been 10-3 or something for the team. If I had gone in for the second half, it would have been like 7-5 or something. But when I didn’t go in at all, it was 8-2 for the opposition. There you go, captain. Screw you.

As much as it sounds impossible to me, it almost looks like it!

Three jobs done, wrong ones fixed and some monthly stuff taken care of! (it’s some monthly stuff!)

Overall, it was just a regular day though.

After last night’s disappointment that saw me play ONLY 2 minutes in the game and just saving goals instead of being able to score them, today I was told to join another game with high stakes on it. Very high stakes, too. And imagine, everybody except me was like 13 or 14. Against people who are all over 20 and you could say an average of 26 years old. Imagine that for a second and think how we could win the first half 7-5 and the full time 15-12. Impossible, right?
No? Let me add those guys’ friends who also cheered them by insulting all of our players from outside, including me.

Also add the fact that they constantly didn’t accept the football laws and wanted there not to be a corner when their keeper touched it and it went out. How about them adding a goal to their tally without even scoring it? Yes, they actually scored only 11 and they claimed it was 12. Again, we won it. Who did it? Me. I scored the last goal with a blast. Loved it and shoved it up theirs. That’s it!

So the tournament Ardi plays in as a keeper had a game tonight and they conceded a goal right after the start, ending Ardi’s 40 minutes of clean sheetness to an end — at 40 minutes. Ironic sometimes how someone brags about something and loses it right at that minute, so to say.

Then it was 0-2 and it looked bad, very bad. In those moments, the team’s captain admitted he had an injury and that was why he couldn’t run in the game and did nothing. But some minutes later it was made 1-2 by a lucky goal. And the half ended that way.

I offered the team captain to come in the game in his place cause he really had expressed his injury as ‘painful’ and ‘not going away’. Then again he is someone who never backs off — like myself, but that’s not the point here — and continued to play and start the second half.

Second half couldn’t have started better as the team found the equalising goal after missing the goal so many times when they could have actually scored much easier. 2-2 then.

Things looked better with the captain as he now thought the game is back, so did the rest of their team. Ardi was so happy about the result that he even was 5 meters out of his goal, only to concede a hilarious goal — for the opposition and very sad for him — because he usually doesn’t concede goals that are THAT bad. Andre Lenz of Wolfsburg is much more famous for those. At least Ardi doesn’t think he’s the greatest and the team ‘would win’ because of him. So details aside it was  2-3 and they were trailing all over again.

The team captain looked again very much in pain and me offering him to come in as his replacement wasn’t what he wanted, again. The game went on and the opposition scored on the counter again 2-4. The game wasn’t going away — at least the team captain and Ardi didn’t think so.

But a total of 10+ shots going wide of the goal from nearby wasn’t what would get them back into the game. Rather, it wasted a lot of time by them rushing it and getting nothing.

Instead, the opposition got their lead to 3 goals for the first time in the game. 2-5 the score as everybody knew what was going to happen with this failure team that failed to even get close to them in any terms late on. Then 2 minutes from time, finally the captain decided to come out. I guess 3 goals can’t be turned back that fast, not against a team all in their defence. And I went in, only to block two more goals heading to own goal and produce a chance for the left midfielder of ours to destroy.

A big game of failure which was a result of bad decisions and bad players. Not all of them were bad, but a few underestimated the opposition.

It’s official! You can do ANYTHING with the right amount of money here. And everybody would just cooperate with you given the fact that you go to the right people. Hell, some of them would come to you. You might just say it’s like that everywhere, but tell me some other place that has government employees accepting bribes as a non-written routine way of income. Everybody knows too. Kind of funny and at the same time explaining too.

In other news midnight was when I went to a friend’s house for a marathon of strategy games to be installed. 80 minutes was what it took, but hey 6 DVDs was the amount of games, you know.