Pixel Golf Football - Season Two

[honeybadger64]

Midweek round up

The studio team are obviously excited to get Season Two under way, a lot of footballing talent on display there, and Phil Thompson. Not only a group of great players but a night out to remember, in their day as well.

Premier League

A couple of early kick offs that have hinted at a really tight battle for supremacy in the top flight this season. The Low Countries put aside their worries over vaccine efficacy and supply to concentrate on something really important, Pixel Golf Football. Ajax and the Diddymen hit the ground running and could not be separated, sharing the points with impressive -46 and -44 totals for their weeks. A similar result at Anfield where Liverpool held West Ham but the quality of play from both sides suggests they will be in the mix come the business end of the season.

Elsewhere, Burton have carried on where they left off Season One and hold a comfortable lead over newcomers Barcelona, 2-0 at half time. Cassino Calcio have recaptured their early season form and hold a similar advantage over Aston Villa. The Orlando Pirates are tied at the break with Man United and it literally could go either way or even be a draw according to Kammy.

Championship

Two early matches as well in the lower tier. Coventry City have dashed the hopes of Chelsea in terms of a winning start to life in the PGFL. Not so much hopes dashed as ripped from their chest and rubbed in their face as the Sky Blues romped home 4-0. Down on the South Island, the Dragons saw off a woeful East Fife side to chalk up a debut victory 3-1 and they will hope to carry that momentum into next week's visit to the Garden of England, well Herne Bay at least.

Last week it was almost impossible to tear Celtic and Bristol City apart from one another. No change this week as they go into the last twenty minutes all-square and everything to play for. It is unlikely that Eric Perego will be getting an invite to the Northampton Town socially distanced Christmas Party this year. His fiendish design of hole 14 has allowed the Finnish minnows HyPS to jump out into a 2-0 halt time lead.

Tranmere may possibly be distracted by other much bigger competitions going on in the Pixel Golf world this week, but Herne Bay may find themselves recreating one of Scotland's simplest victories back on 9th October 1996 in World Cup qualifying European Group 4 between the national teams of Estonia and Scotland. The match was abandoned after three seconds because the Estonian team were absent from the Kadrioru Stadium due to a dispute over its floodlights.



There's only one team in Birkenhead! to misquote the Tartan Army from that day, 25 years ago, 'One team in Tallinn, there's only one team in Tallinn...'

[honeybadger64]

Not Pixel Golf or football related but the One team in Tallinn reminded me of something that happened several years ago.

I was taking a school rugby tour to the West of Ireland. We played at Galwegians Rugby Club and at the end of the games the home players all ran off the field in the opposite direction of the clubhouse. Don't worry we were assured they will be back in a bit. As we enjoyed the hospitality of Galwegians for a while the players started to return in a state of great excitement.

The reason they had disappeared was to play in a local grudge match between St Mary's and St Catherine's (too many pints of the Dark Stuff to remember the actual names and who was who) at Gaelic Football. These two parishes did not get on and there was some rumbling argument that we never really got to the bottom of. The team the lads we had been playing decided that because they didn't fecking like the opposition and indeed they had never liked them and there was something they particularly didn't like about the pitch or match officials, they were refusing to play.

Under the rules of the competition, their opponents couldn't just be awarded the game they had to kick off and score. They started and made their way, unopposed towards the goal. Inexplicably the shot sail wide, much to the amusement of the Galwegian players. The big book of Gaelic Football rules was consulted. The only legal way for them to get the ball back and complete the victory was for the goalkeeper to kick the ball back into play. Much hilarity and obscene language made it clear that this was not going to happen.

Events were now getting serious as the game needed a result. The parish priest of the Galwegians offered to break the impasse by putting on the goalie jersey and get the ball back into play. Alas this was rejected by the team coaches as he was clearly overage and additionally he had not been registered as a player the required seven days previously. The match degenerated into total farce and the players filtered back to the rugby club for refreshments and oft-repeated telling of the glorious afternoon.

[Giraffe72]

So... Are they still waiting for the result??

Back to Celtic Park, and City have opened the door wide for the Celtic team and beckoned them in with welcoming farm girls armed with flaggons of rough cider. The disastrous Kalas back pass that let Celtic in for a well taken equaliser had clearly rocked the boys in red and for the next ten minutes they were all over the shop. They made a bit of a rally for the last 10 minutes and had a good go at the Celtic back line, but they fear the damage was done.

Out in 39, home in 30, 4th round 69

[honeybadger64]

Mar 18, 2021 5:11:49 GMT -5 Giraffe72 said:

So... Are they still waiting for the result??

I presume so Jamie, if you have ever travelled to that part of Ireland you will know that conventions are often thrown out of the window.

On the same trip we went to watch Galway play Donegal in the men's pro league of Gaelic Football. In a ramshackle stadium in the midst of a biblical downpour we were treated to the greatest half time ground announcement I have ever heard;

"Fer da second half, number terteen, John Donlan will be replaced by number terty six, John Donlan.
Now dats not da same fella, but I tink dare fathers are related.
Ders a car on da car park,
A silver Volkswagen Passat,
You've left yer window open,
Ya tosser"

[cassinochips]

Mar 18, 2021 4:46:59 GMT -5 honeybadger64 said:

Not Pixel Golf or football related but the One team in Tallinn reminded me of something that happened several years ago.

This is the most Irish thing I've ever read.

Except maybe your next post.

[honeybadger64]

Mar 18, 2021 7:54:37 GMT -5 cassinochips said:

Mar 18, 2021 4:46:59 GMT -5 honeybadger64 said:

Not Pixel Golf or football related but the One team in Tallinn reminded me of something that happened several years ago.

This is the most Irish thing I've ever read.

Except maybe your next post.

Not quite the most Irish thing about that trip. 

We had used the school's own transport company to provide the coach and the driver was no stranger to a drop of the black stuff. After an evening of convivial socialising which may or may not have concluded just in time for breakfast he decided to get a nap. The posts of Galwegians RFC were almost visible from the hotel balcony and Google Maps confirm a straight line distance of less than 2.5km.



The driver was definitely 'Old School', having no truck with satnav or even maps. We set off for what we thought would be a 5-10 minute journey depending upon traffic conditions. After 40 minutes we passed a sign which said Galway 20 miles in the opposite direction to our travel. Ten more minutes of frantic negotiations with 'Drives' persuaded him to turn around and head in the general direction of Galway or at least the sea.

His main methods of navigation appeared to be copious use of the force and when approaching a junction, loading up the flux capacitor and trying to get the bus up to 88mph and take us Back to the Future, or at least the point at which we first made a wrong turn.



The two mile journey ended up taking us almost two hours and the tachograph recorded 68 miles covered. The actual route was something like this;

[Celtic Wolf]

4th Round -2

Celtic were that bad that they couldn't take advantage of a blind drunk nymphomaniac, this was a painful watch. They started off on the back foot and didn't seem to want to seize control of the match. They did have their chances but too many times Griffiths, Christie and Edouard fluffed their lines. They showed some promise near the end of the match but the momentum and a chance of a winning start was gone.

I had 3 bogies and 2 birdies on the front 9 and managed 3 birdies on holes 12th, 13th and 15th but couldn't get anything else to drop.

[Giraffe72]

Mar 18, 2021 15:22:42 GMT -5 Celtic Wolf said:

4th Round -2

Celtic were that bad that they couldn't take advantage of a blind drunk nymphomaniac, this was a painful watch. They started off on the back foot and didn't seem to want to seize control of the match. They did have their chances but too many times Griffiths, Christie and Edouard fluffed their lines. They showed some promise near the end of the match but the momentum and a chance of a winning start was gone.

I had 3 bogies and 2 birdies on the front 9 and managed 3 birdies on holes 12th, 13th and 15th but couldn't get anything else to drop.

I think that's another draw isn't it? No penalties this time!

[sid snott]

Herne Bay have managed to score an own goal without Tranmere even coming out of their locked changing room by bogeying the first five holes of rd 3 to go +6 and have the Bay manager looking at his pension pot to see if he could take early retirement.
By the end of the rd the score had been pulled back to +3

[SkyBlueBen]

Happy Sky Blues fans ignoring Social distancing as they celebrate victory away at Chelsea by stopping off at The Green Man near Wembley Stadium. Fourteen arrests made for breaching Covid-19 regulations and one for wearing a jester's hat.

[avjpfc]

 
Villa seriously looking like a one man team at the moment, at that one man is nowhere to be seen. 

[sid snott]

Rd 4 +1 Herne Bay's last chance of a goal.
Ñext week we have a local derby against Canterbury City. What do you mean their not 10 miles away, must be some fake team who half-inched the name from half way round the world. Bet they haven't a cathedral as old ours or a roman wall

[thetaffman]

Season 2 and Tranmere have decided to stick with their manager, despite the poor 1st season tyhey had .... can Season 2 start off any better ...

Simple answer .... No

Tranmere suffered several injuries during the match and had used all 3 of their subs before the half.  The match had to stop on 2 occasions between the 24th and 40th minute while a stretcher came onto the pitch to take both of Tranmeres strikers due to a clash of head between 2 of them and then a dislocated knee to the main playmaker, as the referee was trying to avoid the players running through and the referee 'tripped' him up accidently.

R1 - 77 (Adj. 71)
R2 - 85 (Adj. 79)
R3 - 78 (Adj. 72)
R4 - 77 (Adj. 71)

[statelyowl]

Mar 19, 2021 18:01:09 GMT -5 sid snott said:

Rd 4 +1 Herne Bay's last chance of a goal.
Ñext week we have a local derby against Canterbury City. What do you mean their not 10 miles away, must be some fake team who half-inched the name from half way round the world. Bet they haven't a cathedral as old ours or a roman wall

Too soon, our Cathedral constructed in 1864 was destroyed in an earthquake in 2011. We never let the Romans invade. Boys are fired up!

[jason755]

Round3 -10
Man U played some great stuff at the start of this half and was too much for Orlando wave after wave of attack and deservedly lead 2-1 with 20 to go