TOWIE

<p>Bealonians VII 0 &ndash; 10 (ten) Meads VII (Whyte x 2 Cinamon x 2 Taylor,Piper,Davis,Knox,Moalin,Irish)

<p>Team � Williams,Scurville,Knox,Taylor,Mahoukou,Cinamon,Davis,Bailey,Whyte,Moalin,Irish (Francis,Piper)

<p>Report by Rob Williams

<p>This time last year the 7s went in to the 1st round winless and having conceded 24 goals in 5 games somehow managed to

<p>scrape through a 2�1 win over neighbouring Polytechnic 8s. It was all so different this year when the high flying 7s rolled in

<p>to Essex albeit with an unfamiliar 11 from the week before.

<p>The morning started off a bit of a shambles when Mr Piper failed to show due to a night on the beer with some ex

<p>footballer&rsquo;s turned TV presenters (if you want to know who The Prince Albert Pub Whitton is the place to go). When he

<p>eventually answered our calls and we reminded him what day it was our understanding driver detoured via Whitton for an

<p>extra stop. Can I apologise to Omar on Danny&rsquo;s behalf as the smell of alcohol and god knows what else that was been leaked

<p>in the back of the car was not something a 17 year old should have forced upon them first thing on a Saturday morning plus

<p>the constant whining of how hungry he was (we are not stopping mate we are late).

<p>Anyway, we decided we would take the Twickenham route to delay us further through the gathering rugby crowd, after all

<p>Essex is only down the road! We managed to get there (late) to find there was no ref and their captain would be doing the

<p>honours of been the man in the middle. Danny felt the wrath from the gaffer for turning up late and was dropped to the

<p>bench, although he nearly had to start as Lionel seemed to be having his usual weekly troubles of putting on his tights,

<p>three pair of socks, captain&rsquo;s armband and as we were in Essex I am sure he brought his vajazzle with him. As long as he

<p>didn&rsquo;t leave the team sheet I went to the trouble of filling in behind him when he got to the pitch&hellip;oh wait.

<p>The game is hard to report on as you can see from the score, we took shots they went in was pretty much how the first half

<p>went. Even Jack was scoring; it does help when the shots are on target. Lionel managed to pick an argument with someone

<p>going off at halftime, you can&rsquo;t fault his passion. I came out of goal so I could get my kit dirty. Taylor went in goal and with

<p>all credit to the oppo he was far busier than I was as they started to play some better football and managed to create some

<p>chances. A dubious penalty decision was rewarded in their favour only for Taylor to spoil their day managing to keep it out

<p>and they somehow failed to knock in the rebound.

<p>One of the footballing highlights of the day had to be their keeper making his way up for a corner while trailing 9�0 late in

<p>the 2nd half, only for them to take it while he had just made it past the halfway line. Maybe it was a decoy, either way it

<p>didn&rsquo;t work.

<p>Back to league business this week, away trip to Old Sutts, where if I remember correctly you do get beans with your sausage

<p>and chips. Something to look forward to for the vegetarians I guess. I get dips on the extra sausage this week.

<p>Man of the match &ndash; Taylor (Goal and Penalty save, clean sheet as defender and keeper and detouring to pick up Dan Piper)