The Nordeus gods are truly against me

[Timmy Tee]

This takes me back to my amateur "Sunday" league football days in the UK.

Due to cup games and weather postponements, we would end up with fixture pile-ups that meant we would have to play 2 matches together. Home and away against a team back-to-back. For those games, it used to be 60 minutes per game so 120 minutes total, not 180.

One match like that, the pitch was just about playable after heavy rain, but both managers and the ref agreed that another postponement would make matters even worse so the game went on. In the 2nd game I spotted the keeper off his line and sent in a perfect lob, he had no chance, it was one of those rare (for me), perfectly weighted shots. Unfortunately, the pitch was so muddy the ball failed to bounce and just landed on the goal line with a splash and went no further. The keeper just ran back and picked it up. By the end of the match there were 22 players so completely covered in mud, we had no idea who was on which team.