AFC Valour 0 vs 5 Blackham And Ashurst Sarac

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">On a cold crisp Saturday a week before Christmas what is the best thing in the world to be doing?............Playing for B&A.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Everyone knew the score, we can&rsquo;t afford any more slipups if we are serious about making a charge for the league title and also with the Christmas party we all knew the beer would taste that much sweeter with three points safely in the bag.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The side was almost unchanged from the previous week, the only change being a less than fresh looking ginger pig coming in at right mid for Zac Effron who has flown home to LA for the festive &lsquo;holiday&rsquo;.&nbsp; Other than Bowlsey and Gandhi&rsquo;s clown routine in the first minute the first half went according to plan, better than the plan in fact.&nbsp; The Blackham boys were pouring forward at pace and raining down crosses in to the Valour penalty area.&nbsp; It was no surprise that the deadlock was broken after less than 10 minutes.&nbsp; Some great work out on the right to keep the ball in from Pat and then a nice through ball from Bert to Hobbit.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Skipper made no mistake rifling it in to the net from 8 yards.&nbsp; Hobbit had obviously sneaked an extra waffle on to his breakfast plate as he was in delicious form&nbsp;and goals were on the menu.&nbsp; He almost doubled his and Blackham&rsquo;s lead with a diving header from a Freeman cross but&nbsp;was brilliantly denied by the Valour keeper with an awesome reflex save.&nbsp; Now enter the Ginger Prince.&nbsp; We are witnessing a new dawn for the handsome debonair midfield maestro; since we returned him to his natural habitat in centre midfield he has been running the show.&nbsp; And he was instrumental in the third goal today.&nbsp; He picked up the ball near the half way line and drove forward skipping past white shirts as if they weren&rsquo;t there before rolling the ball in to the path of an onrushing potato.&nbsp; His shot although well hit should have been comfortably saved by the Valour keeper but he spilled it over the line presneting young man with an early christmas present and a slice of B&A pie. Hobbit was still on the hunt for more goals and got his second slice of pie in his most favourite way,&nbsp;scraps.&nbsp; Again the Valour keeper did well and foiled his first effort from point blank range but the&nbsp;chippy little skipper managed to force it over the line.&nbsp; The Black and red attacks kept coming and with the game mostly&nbsp;being played in the opposing half it gave license for Junior to get forward and support the attack, providing some nice crosses in to the box.&nbsp; And we made it 4-0 before the break with Pat Lawrence tapping one in from a yard out.&nbsp; Not pretty but they all count and come the end of the season goal difference could be the extra point we need.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The half time talk was pretty much &ldquo;more of the same please&rdquo; and that&rsquo;s what we got, for the first 10 minutes at least.&nbsp; Bert seems to be enjoying his new role partnering Hobbit up top and he was having another good game.&nbsp; He capped his own personal performance and the&nbsp; teams with an absolute screamer.&nbsp; A good 35 yards from goal, he controlled the ball, turned and then chipped the keeper perfectly, the ball just barely kissing the underside of the crossbar on it&rsquo;s way in.&nbsp; A bit like Bowlsey's tongue on Bayley&rsquo;s lips on the way in to his mouth later that evening.&nbsp; There were plenty of chances for B&A to increase the lead in the second half but Hobbit couldn&rsquo;t quite find a third and Fergy blazed over from 4 yards.&nbsp; But it was mainly cruise control other than that and the game was closed out.&nbsp; Dan stood up well and made a double save late on to preserve the clean sheet.&nbsp; A very pleasing away win and a quality post game shower, steamiest so far this season.&nbsp; A big thank you to Becky for the yard of Jaffas as well, they really helped get the boys fired up for this one.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The perfect day was then accompanied by the perfect night, with a few beers, a curry, Christmas Jumpers, an amazing secret Santa, some excellent cross weeing, a Christmas tree theft, the most amazing gay kiss I&rsquo;ve ever seen in real life, the funniest face plant I&rsquo;ve ever seen, some quality shape throwing and the invention of a new B&A terrace song, &ldquo;I got the moves like Baggo..........................&rdquo;

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Happy Christmas everyone, let&rsquo;s keep it up in 2012.

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