Mustards in the Red as Lloyds Nick a Point

Keen as Mustard 2 – 2 Lloyds Register All Stars

Strange one this…….on the one hand the Mustard avoided a second defeat of the season against the lads from Lloyds, on the other it was a strangely flat performance and the boys in yellow should really have really wrapped up the three points.

The Mustard were without some bloke called Cookson (didn’t even play and still gets a mention in the blog), who has been blazing a trial in the scoring charts this season, after he entered the world of fatherhood which seems to equate to no sleep, multiple nappy changes, endless re-runs of CBBC and more worryingly in Mr Miller’s case, the end of his Mustard Career (this blogger is 26 so has no idea about such things but this is my impression……on a side note congrats Scotty!). The reigning champs still lined up strongly with the only concern for Gaffa Thornton being the on running feud between Mason and Endo about the length of the formers hair……some may say this also stems back to the end of season pant stealing incident but neither were available for comment.

To the game, and the Mustards came out of the box about as fast as Sol Campbell at pre-season training and promptly found themselves one nil down within 30 seconds. Despite Donavan getting a hand on the ball Lloyds were ahead inside their opening attack and once again the Mustard were forced to come from behind………and come from behind they did…….. the ever willing Hyde collected the ball in midfield and fed the on rushing Downey who calming slotted past the Lloyds goalkeeper to draw the sides level. The Lloyds keeper, incidentally, is unofficially the best keeper in this league and showed why by thwarting Hyde, Gaffa Thornton and Baker with a string of pointblank saves which kept the score level at the interval.

The Mustard knew they needed something special to draw ahead……… but instead they settled for one of the most embarrassing goals ever seen on the hallowed top corner turf (btw, did anyone else see notice these “ground improvements” which forced the postponement of last week’s game because this writer certainly didn’t) The disgruntled Hyde, still smarting from last week’s blog snub (I scored three as well Baker you tool) drilled a shot which bounced off the keeper, fence, post and keeper again before nestled in the back of the net to give the mustards a deserved, if somewhat fortuitous, lead. Alas some sloppy defending by the goal scorer then allowed the portly Lloyds striker a site of Donk’s goal and despite another slight touch he was unable to stop the ball from skidding in to make it 2-2. The Lloyds keeper once again lived up to his billing by turning a Thornton pile driver onto the post towards the end, and a combination of some way-wood shooting from both sides plus some Donk Heroics meant the ever jovial ref brought the game to an end with the score’s still level. The combative Baker was given the nod for MOM, probably due to his pre-match flirting with the aforementioned ref, but he certainly seems to have recovered from his injury lay off, even if his blog writing ability is still more tabloid than broadsheet…   

So a missed opportunity perhaps but always good not to lose………roll on Whip y’all next week with the Mustard firmly in the title shake up once again…..to quote the Gaffa “We are right in the mixer and a win next week would be lovely boys”

UTM

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