Week 05 : Match Report

BOBS CREATE HISTORY 

WITH GREATEST COMEBACK EVER

After the controversy and general underhand antics of the Triffs following last week’s game, it was paramount that Game 5 passed off without incident. The football community held it’s breath as the sides made their way to the Kingfisher Sports Emporium for the big KO.

Alas, crowd congestion would lead to a 30 minute delay to proceedings, time enough for Pat the Baker to cook up yet more bizarre explanations as to how in fact, beyond all the evidence to the contrary, they had in fact won the previous week. But moving on….game five was now upon us, but with the team line-ups having an unfamiliar look.

With two pre-arranged guest appearances having been drafted in, the Bobs, in their usual sporting and generous way, welcomed the two newcomers into the Bobbydazzler fold. Alas, the new recruits found the tempo of the game a bit much to take, and in a hopelessly mismatched opening 20 minutes, the Triffs raced into an unprecedented SEVEN goal lead. Changes were needed to secure the integrity of this great contest, and so a switch was made with John ‘NOT’ Scott switching to the Bobs, and new boy Liam having the misfortune of having to ply his trade with the Triffs. 

With the sides now on a level playing field, the Bobs set about acquiring respectability, as surely the game was way beyond them now. And slowly but surely, they did. One goal came…then a second…then a third. And now there was only four goals between the teams. Were the Triffs beginning to creak? 

With the Bob defence impregnable, and the newly returned ‘Budgie’, Gazza and NOT ‘Scott’ having  blinders, it was now all to play for. And suddenly, stop the press, the Bobs were one up. Only then did the Triffs muster themselves, to score their first goal since the early blitz to level the scores at 9-9.

But the Bobs were not to be denied now – and two more goals secured a memorable win and a comeback to echo through the ages. Agincourt, Dunkirk, The Siege of Derry….put them all together and multiply by two and you might come close to the magnitude of this performance. The game, and result, that all football fans wanted after last week’s debacle.

With one week to go, the Bobs lead 3-2 (well, 3-1 actually but it is Christmas). Can game seven muster up drama like this? Will our hearts be able to take the strain? Will Triffy revive his ‘back-of-a-chip bag’ teamtalk? Will Jama be wearing a new type of Cologne for the occasion? And will Captain Bobby escape from under the thumb of his glamorous other half to hold aloft the Fr Delaney trophy? All will be revealed on Thursday night.