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Old Boys and Namesakes
As a precursor to the main blog, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about last Thursday’s re-arranged game in Manchester here. Well it also saves time about trying to squeeze three match reviews in one blog I guess, and also gives me time to talk about something else too. It does have a slight link to hockey, uncanny and amusing granted, but it’s something I just wanted to share as well with you. Last Thursday as I said, the Scims were in Altrincham to face the Phoenix again. We have played them prior to this encounter five times (including the two pre-season War of the Roses games) and the Phoenix had won four and the other one (one of those pre-season encounters) had finished in a thrilling 3-3 draw. The sixth in the series had extra special spice to it however as wearing number 14 these days for Manchester is none other than Stephen Wallace – recently released by us. Now Stephen fits into a footballing category quite easily, “The old player that you get rid of, but comes back to haunt you by scoring against you” type. We’ve seen it before, players scoring against their old team and the Billingham boy is no exception to this rule. For instance, in his first game against Bracknell for the Scims, he scored against them. So secretly, I was hoping he wouldn’t do it for Manchester against us. I couldn’t make the game myself as I had got the exciting prospect that was a football team financial monthly meeting with the committee. Yeah, notice the sarcasm there. They seem to go on for ages and are always at a time when you wish you were elsewhere, in my case in point this time – Altrincham. So at half past seven on Thursday I’m sat in a room with the rest of the football team committee (none of which are hockey fans) when I’d rather be cheering on my beloved Scims. Phone on silent mode and with my good friend Mireille Rose supplying me updates I’m sorted. We hadn’t got anything remotely started when the phone vibrates and I’m out of my chair: goal for the Scims scored by James Archer after less than 2 minutes play. You should have seen the look on the other’s faces as I showed my joy. However, late in the period Ed Courtenay restored parity and the teams went level at 1-1 after the first. Courtenay made it 2-1 with the only goal of the second period and I was getting more and more increasingly bored in the meeting. Then in the third, the moment I had been dreading happened. Yes, Wallace scored against us. I just shook my head in disbelief, just as one of the guys was trying to explain how the projected cash flow looked. He thought I was looking at him, but I was in my hockey world. Gutted. Then Hand scores on the powerplay to make it 4-1 and it’s looking forlorn…Wallace got an assist on this too to rub it in more. Yet we didn’t buckle something I know we seldom do anyway, and Mark Turner scores to make it 4-2. My mood brightens a bit, probably because I think someone’s neared the end of his waffling spiel as well, and I am starting to believe anything is possible in Manchester. Slami then adds a third with three minutes to go just as the meeting finishes, we have a goal disallowed, but the Phoenix hold on…just! Wally’s had the last laugh on us, but as I make the journey back to my mate’s car I’m assuring myself that we’re gonna beat them soon. 13 March 2010, hopefully that is the time. So briefly onto the second part of this blog. Well as you know I am studying for ITQ Level 2 CLaIT at college and I am in the middle of my exams for the advanced spreadsheet module. I got to college in plenty of time to find my allocated PC to do the second part of the exam, and that is when the fun began. Our tutor passed a sheet around whereupon we signed into say that we were doing the exam and to indicate which machine we were using for it. So when I received the sheet off one of my fellow students I just couldn’t help stifle a small laugh. For sat at machine 2 was a student called, get ready for it – SEAN McMORROW! This being the student that passed me the sign in sheet. I really thought I was seeing things, I mean I hadn’t had too much to drink, only a few glasses of orange juice prior to college and no alcohol the previous night. Hence the hockey connection loosely. Yet this Sean McMorrow didn’t look anything at all like the Giants’ enforcer. “The Sheriff” is a hell of a big man, I wouldn’t argue with him, but his namesake was like er – same height as me (5‘7) and slim. Nothing at all like him in fact, but the fact I sat an exam with Sean McMorrow was just oh so amusingly daft. You really couldn’t have scripted it any better to be honest. I’ll be back later in the week with the usual blog, but I hope you enjoyed this one too. Enjoy your hockey.
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