soccer report

[rone]

Last week was a festival of bad bounces.  There were three own-goals, two of which were rebounds that bounced off a defender, and the goal that caught me napping was mostly because the rebound off the wall fell right at an attacker's feet, when i was expecting a different carom.

Tonight's game against Jets was a festival of bad rone.  Whenever i left the box to try to clear a long ball, i would more often than not whiff it.  This led to at least two goals.  There was also a long ball that i gauged and went to the edge of the box to pick up; then the ball died after it bounced and the attacker plucked it and shot it past me.  If i'd challenged the pass, i could've just kicked it away, but i thought i had a chance to play it.  And that reminds me of an earlier event in the game where the attacker i mentioned above was in the box during a free kick; i leaned on him, and he crumpled to the ground.  The ref carded me, and then threatened to give me another one when i told luserboy, "Nice dive, dude."  Hey, ref, i've shoved guys in the box before, so i know the difference.  That pissed me off... at least we didn't give up a goal while we were a man down (we actually scored a shorthander).  The good news is that my suckage didn't lose us the game; the bad news is we tied, 5-5.  Yeah, there shouldn't've been that many long passes into space, but if i'd cleared half of those whiffs, we would've won.