18/12/2015
Last Tuesday night, Picard’s Flute FC personally insulted everyone who has ever given his or her support to the team, as well as all people unfortunate enough to be in a 3km radius of Striker Leeming recreation centre at the time. In a pathetic display of “Futsal,” the “team” suffered a lackluster 2-1 defeat at the hands of No Eye Dears, leaving players and supporters wondering what horrible choices they made in their lives to be part of such a humiliating failure.
Entering the courts at 8pm, Picard’s drunken players were feeling very confident after coming off a two-week hot streak, which included the most sexually thrilling game in the club’s short history, a come from behind victory against The Killers. Surely the seemingly less impressive No Eye Dears were about to be skillfully disassembled by Picard’s raw talent. Thus began the downfall.
The early minutes of the game were tense, seeing many close scoring chances from Picard’s, but it was No Eye Dears to first get on the scoreboard, after a piss-poor defensive error from Tommy "who's got their money" Martin resulted in the ball rocketing through goalkeeper Adrian "I saw them at Splendour" Marsegaglia’s legs in to the back of the net. Marsegaglia proceeded to scream profanities and boot the ball away like a child, startling local residents.
The boys in high-vis were clearly struggling without the composure of missing star players and Sticky Fingers groupies Connor “a s**t’s a s**t” McAlpine and Andrew “il Ciao” Marrollo. Unforced errors were aplenty, and when the boys did manage to get the ball forward, the shots at goal didn’t have that Picard’s spirit we’ve all come to know and love. Somehow after countless attempts, a beautiful set piece finishing with a Josh "back her in" Adamson strike leveled the scores, with both teams on 1-1 at half time.
Unfortunately, the boys did not draw enough inspiration from Adamson’s heroics, turning the second half into a series of tragic mistakes. The team was an unorganized mess, fu***ng atrocious. Everyone was just kicking it out or to the opposition for no particular reason, playing like a bunch of complete retards. Disaster struck midway through the second half, when another shot when sizzling through Marsegaglia’s somewhat impressive legs. Adrian was fuming about this and after physically forcing Adamson to take his place as goalkeeper, immediately dribbled all the way down, only to fail to get a shot away like so many of his teammates had done before him. The last remaining minutes of desperation from the Flute proved to be too little to late as No Eye Dears, the clearly inferior team on paper, came away with the 2-1 victory.
After that insipid performance, Picard’s Flute will have to do a lot to win supporter’s trust back.