Last night saw the first 5 a side football game in the Windhoek Shebeen’s existence.

A select group of men sacrificed reputation and shin for the greater good of the club. Seven young boys went into the unknown abyss, and seven seasoned athletes emerged…

The A-Team
1. Mark ‘Springfield’
2. Andy ‘Carrol’
3. Gazza ‘The Wall’
4. Ty ‘Through pass’
5. Tony ‘The Italian’
6. Marty ‘Jack Russel’
7. Jake ‘The Snake’

They took to the field with little knowledge of what lay ahead…

Before the Shebeen goalkeeper (Gazza) had time to adjust his eyes to the teasing sun directly in front of him, Andy ‘Newcastle’ curved a ball past the opposition keeper to put Shebeen in the lead. Bra’s, roses and jockstraps where removed from the pitch and the game continued.
The Greeks came back with a quick reply goal and then continued their second quarter domination with an embarrassing ‘ though the legs’ goal past Gazza to take the lead 2-1 into the half.

Some half time banter by the Greeks has to try get Shebeen penalized for a late start seemed to fuel the ever burning urge to tackle something. Tony the Italian tied a Rambo band over his hamstring and started kicking the bench; Jake the snake sharpened his studs – this was where men were separated from boys.

The second half began with a great run away goal by Jake; his sharpened studs glistering in the sun like an ice cube in a glass of Bushmills

2 – 2

Feeling the game slipping from their grasp has resorted to the only thing left to try – behave like proper Premiership players. Guys were falling left, right and center; and this was before they even restarted the game…..
Feeling frustrated the Italian wound his leg back 270 degrees to a stationary ball and released….the ball moved……a Greek fell…..Tony looked at the ref…..the ref shook his head

“I was going for the ball”

Yellow

Tony looked down and shook his head

The game continued with Shebeen down a man for 2 minutes. The Greeks took advantage of the numbers and mounted a massive blitzkrieg on the Shebeen backline but were unable to find any weaknesses in the resolute defense.
Marty the Jack Russel worked hard to make up for Tony’s sin bin. Together with Ty ‘through pass’ they were unlucky not to score on many occasions. Andy however, swayed past, through and at times, over the opposition leaving Mark ‘Springfield’ open for a well worked third goal.

The final score of the day came with a delicate right foot flip past the keeper to ensure the Greeks broke something other than plates that night…

Shebeen 4, has 2

Scorers:
Springfield x1
Jake x1
Andy x2

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The strategy behind Tshabalala’s goal:

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in real life:

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in slow mo:

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22 Brave men took to the soccer field in a night which can only be described as ‘the coldest f*cken night of the year.’

The game started very professionally with a few TV dives and some well put together passes. Some individual brilliance by Timo saw the first goal of the night with an immaculate strike from outside the box to put the Fourths.com in the lead. With their tails up the Fourths.com pushed forward; some resolute defense by Jorn ‘the Dutchman’ Das, Ogre ‘hou my dop vas’ and Mark ‘Springfield’ Forrester managed to keep the surge at bay. After a solid 10 minutes of defense, some well worked interplay by the forwards lead to the first Shebeen goal of the night. A cross into the middle saw the goal keeper spill the ball where Chris was waiting to pop it into the net.

This appeared to be all Shebeen needed to kick start their evening. Andrew ‘Kingpin’ Moir controlled the game from the middle by feeding the strikers with some valuable ball and helping the defensive wall by marking the Fourths.com key players. Three unanswered goals followed the first leaving Shebeen 4 – 1 up at the half.

With the fourths changing goal keepers like Jenna Jameson changes her positions, they eventually settled with Jarrod after the half time break. This wise tactical change proved tough for the Shebeen strikers who battled to put the ball in the net. The second half produced no goals for the men in green despite some BRILLIANT through-balls by Gary and darting runs by Chris Vella and Devzo…….6

Andy ‘check my blue undies’ Forrester was nominated as the best player on the night with precision passing and a Forlane type goal that Forlane himself would get hard over. Jarrod was close behind him with his solid defense at the Fourths.com’s goal line.

The final score: 4 – 3 to Shebeen

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Good morning. In approximately 40hours we will be launching the largest football battle in the history of mankind.  We will unite in our common goal to beat the Fourths.com in yet another sporting discipline (cricket and rugby have been ticked off the 2010 list). Perhaps its fate that tomorrow is also the day Kyle was born many moons ago….
Should we win the day, the fourteenth of July will no longer be known as Kyle’s birthday, but as the day the Shebeen SSC declared in one voice: “You are our bitch fourths.com” We will not vanish without an after match fines session! We’re going to party! We’re going to survive! Tomorrow we celebrate our victory!

The team that will hold the hopes and dreams of Shebeen SSC:

1.    Gov
2.    Rolf
3.    Gary
4.    Jorn
5.    Vella
6.    Ryno
7.    Rich
8.    Ogre
9.    Kyle
10.    Forry
11.    Tony
12.    Andy
13.    Devon
14.    Murray

Points to note:
•    All players need to have paid their R100 Shebeen SSC membership (internal league players, this is included in your subs)
•    Each player is to bring R35 for match fees
•    No metal studs are allowed – bring cross trainers if you unsure about your boots
•    Game details
i.    The Mowbray
ii.    19h00 KICKOFF
iii.    Rolling subs

See you tomorrow,
Gazza

11 June – 20:30   Group A Uruguay         France
14 June – 20:30    Group F Italy                 Paraguay
18 June – 20:30    Group C England          Algeria
21 June – 13:30    Group G Portugal         Korea DPR
24 June – 20:30    Group E Cameroon      Netherlands
29 June – 20:30    Round of 16 1H                      2G
03 July – 16:00    Quarter-finals W52                 W51
06 July – 20:30    Semi-finals W58                 W57

Go to the FIFA website or to your nearest FNB branch to secure your ticket. Rumors have it that the better categories are now selling at a reduced rate…

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(thanks Murrals)

* John Terry has been lined up to star in a new ITV drama. It’s called Other Footballers’ Wives.

* Poor Wayne Bridge – he’s not even first choice with his his wife.