Ouch.
On a day when the Blue moon has risen to the top of the table, in the South West, the Blue foxes suffered tragically at the hands of the Shire.
Tired from the school disco? Too many late nights? Bad management?
Who knows? But our rainbow haired little soldiers turned in a lacklustre performance today against the well organised and stoic Shire.
No dancing for them last night I'll wager, just early nights and a full English in the morning I expect.
We got pummelled ...
But 3 little battlers who deserve a special mention were Ned, Arthur and Connie.
Despite the scoreline, Ned was phenomenal in net, saving at least 6 or 7 other potential goals. Then he came out in defence and performed even better, a pat on the back for that young sir. Arthur and Connie were equally committed, chasing that ball and battling non stop to try to get back in the game. They excelled themselves today and showed true spirit.
A big well done to the rest of the team too, everyone tried their best to remain upbeat despite the score.
And a special thank you to the parents and spectators, who kept the positivity flowing throughout !
Whilst fighting back tears and tantrums, the Blues did manage to pop a goal in, courtesy of Neerij, and in a carefully rehearsed bout of spectacular synchronicity, managed to dance gangnam style to celebrate!
Learn it, Live it, love it ... once those foxes get some sleep, you'll be seeing it a lot more!
Hope that video cheered you up - if it did try to hold onto that thought, cause here's the the Red Foxes' report and it's not too pretty. Getting down to basics, basically, we didn't do the basics well enough - we didn't control the ball well enough, we didn't pass it well enough, we didn't clear our area well enough, we didn't make our tackles count. These are all things that up until this weekend we've been doing increasingly well. But on Saturday, we were all clearly tired and at least one of us was emotional. Let's just say it was a massive development opportunity.
When Shire got the ball they were savvy enough to string through passes that counted and we weren't lively enough to intercept them.
I know I've said it before but there should be no clubbing the night before an important match - at the top level it's 48 hours. We're not asking for that, but early to bed on match nights.
All that said there were two standout performances from the Reds - Harry ran, tackled, dribbled, passed and shot like the night before's Red Bull flavoured Haribos hadn't yet worn off, or maybe he'd sunk a couple of Beroccas for breakfast; I don't know, but Gareth Bale would have been proud of that performance, true end-to-end stuff and a fantastic goal to cap it all. At the other end Kaylen pulled off fearless save after save, without him it would have been a cricket score. Great instinctive blocks followed by him dropping on the ball no matter how many attackers were bearing down on it.
Let's draw a line under this and get back to winning ways next week, yeah?
As Psy would say:
"Jeongsu-khae boijiman nol ttaen noneun yeoja
Ittaeda shipeumyeon mukkeot-deon meori puneun yeoja
Karyeot-jiman wen-manhan nochulboda yahan yeoja
Keureon gamkakjeo-gin yeoja
Oppan gang-namseutayil"
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