And guess what?
I wasn't 'the baddie' this time...
Last night saw the Summer league campaign kick off with a hugely enjoyable evening of competitive squash and great socialising.1st on was Yours Truly, and as Captain I was determined to lead my team by example. Facing The Springer Spaniel himself (Chris Gildersleeve) I was in no mood to muck around, 1st game done in a couple of minutes 9-0, I was then told by the Chairman himself to go for the jugular and see the Springer off 27-0 for what was obviously a deep wound that he himself once had inflicted on him by the Springer. 2nd game 8-0 up and the real Springer showed himself with his well know mishit winner for his first point (GRRRR). I then saw the match out after that for only the lose of 3 more points for the win and the 1st points of the season were on the board. :o)
Next up was the whiley coyote himself (Mike) at number 3 for the evening, old whiley got off to a storming start hitting an dead nick drop shot straight off to go 1-0 up in the first, unfortunately I think that shot got to his head as proceeded to hand the initiative to his opponent, for 3/4's of the game whiley had lots of chances of calling easy lets but just looked up to the gods but "LET PLEASE" never came out of his mouth, to then add to the painful beating he was starting to take already 2-0 and 6-2 down he finally asked for a let, only to be denied by the marker (ME) as he needed to be another 20 years younger to be able to get there. Final Score 0-3.Then came the Silver Fox (Trevor), I didn't get to see much of the match but when I arrived it was 2 games all, so all to play for. Controversy then kicked in (no surprise for anyone that knows the silver fox) with the Springer marking he called the score as 2-1 to the Fox, his opponent (Gareth) was adamant that this was incorrect and in fact it was 1-1, but the marker was having none of it, like a sulking little school boy Gareth had a little temper tantrum and that was all the silver fox needed to see off his prey with some inspired winners to come through 3-2, like the petulant child that he showed he was Gareth steamed off court without the offer of a proper handshake (oh poor did-dums LOL).
Last but certainly not least was David, rushing straight in from a hectic day at work, he was facing a man that was on a mission in Jez, with his team captain not notifying him that David would not be around till just after 8pm, he was not in a good mood, David took full advantage of this and went into a 8-1 lead in the first, What happened next only David will know as Jez clawed his way and nicked the game 10-8, Jez then was able to harbour his anger into making the very valiant David cover all 4 corners of the court for the next 2 games, as much as David charged around covering everything the slightly more cunning play of Jez saw him through the match. Final Score 0-3
So the first game drawn 2 matches all, but unfortunately The Springers team crept the win due to the 2 games the Sulky School Boy managed to steal away from the Silver Fox.
Then the festivities began in the bar and, well I can't say anything about that, only that their was drinking and lots of somewhat interesting banter happening, which finished off a thoroughly entertaining evening.
Next Match is Next Wednesday 23rd May with the Team Selection below.
1, CK
2, Trevor
3, Chris
4, Andy
If you all good confirm that you are still ok to play in this fixture that would be much appreciated. I'm thinking that maybe we could order in some pizza's to go with the drink in the evening, if you are up for this then please let me know.
Regards
Adam
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