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A beautiful game?

On Saturday (March 17th), FaTTBC FC will play BPBC FC in the final of the inaugural Football Challenge Pot. You're not a betting (wo)man, but if you were...?

FaT to win easily		30%

FaT to win narrowly		24%

FaT to win on penalties		8%

BPBC to win on penalties		8%

BPBC to win narrowly		14%

BPBC to win easily		11%

Seb to lose easily		41%

No injuries		0%

Minor injuries only		32%

One major injury		14%

Multiple major injuries		8%

Multiple major injuries to one person		32%

No cards		8%

Yellow cards only		24%

One red card		11%

Multiple red cards		30%

A full-blown fracas leading to FA charges		27%

FaT to score first		46%

BPBC to score first		30%

FaT to fail to score at all		3%

BPBC to fail to score at all		16%

FaT to concede a penalty		30%

BPBC to concede a penalty		38%

Anyone to score with a header		19%

Anyone to score with a volley		14%

Anyone to score from outside the area		43%

Anyone to score from his own half		16%

Anyone to score an own goal		54%

Anyone to score a hat-trick		22%

Anyone to score at the post-match social		49%

Streaker (FaT underwear)		38%

Streaker (inferior underwear)		5%

Streaker (no underwear)		5%

No WAGs present		11%

1-5 WAGs present		46%

6-10 WAGs present		11%

11+ WAGs present		14%

FaT's destructive gambling culture to be exposed in Varsity in the build-up to the game		19%

BPBC's specially commissioned spyplane and listening devices employed at FaT training sessions to be exposed in The Cambridge Student in the build-up to the game		16%

Lorry to be seen daydreaming		49%

Will Laffan to win a header		16%

Tom Coker to turn up too drunk to play		57%

James Strawson to turn up on the wrong day		43%

Richard Fletcher to claim he's 'fed up of not winning anything' after the game		22%

Mark Sankey to do a fartlek session at half-time while smiling		24%

Seb to do a fartlek session at half-time while grimacing		57%

Seb to suffer abuse for being German		84%

Phil to suffer abuse for being ginger		70%

QB James Scott to shout 'Red, Red, 72, 72'		30%

Neil to be accused of sexism for failing to select any girls for BPBC		62%

Dan Darley to cycle to and from the game from London		49%

Dan Holland to 'do a Din' (i.e. require hospital treatment for exhaustion)		22%

Ingers to 'do an Ingers'		35%

Graham to 'do a Graham'		27%

Simon Blackburn to attempt to have the game called off for health and safety reasons		19%

BPBC to attempt to have the game called off because Bryn tries to play his ringer		27%

Jon Glass to do the 'robot dance' after scoring		41%

John Earl to provide a half-time 'keepy-uppy' masterclass		24%

Eton Boy to ask where the Wall is		41%

Matt Byrne to crown a mazy dribble from his own half with an outrageous left-foot chip over the onrushing goalkeeper		11%

Total: 37 members' votes

by Joff - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 6:18pm

Neil your polls hurt my head. Anything that stretched beyond one page is just too strenuous for a Sunday afternoon.
Anyway, I think my bet would be that you manage to escape the match unscathed and then injure yourself in a comical and highly unlikely fashion afterwards. who wants to lay? I'll stake 50p :)

by Jane - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 8:41pm

hear hear. where's the option for Neil managing to re-injure his foot and have to spend the next 6 months explaining to his employer why he is apparently physically capable of doing everything but the job they're paying him for...

and shouldn't there be a box for Bryn being a sexist bastard for organising the match on the same day as WeHORR, hence automatically ruling out many potential female FaT players??

by RTT - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 8:58pm

Jane said: hear hear. and shouldn't there be a box for Bryn being a sexist bastard for organising the match on the same day as WeHORR, hence automatically ruling out many potential female FaT players??

I thought it was Blackburn's fault for organising the WeHoRR on the same day as the match?

by Simon - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 10:40pm

RTT said: I thought it was Blackburn's fault for organising the WeHoRR on the same day as the match?

Nothing to do with me guv'nor. I only joined the WeHoRR committee after this date had been booked (along with the next two, before you blame me for those). Don't think it'll get cancelled though - would say there's more chance of an unplayable pitch.

by And what about the female referees? - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 10:41pm

RTT said: I thought it was Blackburn's fault for organising the WeHoRR on the same day as the match?

I think it's probably Neil's fault too, and almost certainly yours as well Tom. You're all notorious sexists, afterall.
If it wasn't for WeHORR I'd definitely be playing and/or umpiring. Football's the one with a round ball that you kick, right? How hard can it be?

by Pierluigi Collina - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 11:22pm

Lilie said: How hard can it be?

It must be:

- not more than 450 g (16 oz) in weight and not less than 410 g (14 oz) at the start of the match;

- of a pressure equal to 0.6 - 1.1 atmosphere (600 - 1100 g/cm2) at sea level.

Hope this helps. There are more details in Law 2 if you need them. Just make sure you don't look at Law 11 by mistake.

by Ron Manager - Sun 11th Mar 2007, 11:46pm

Pierluigi Collina said: It must be:
- not more than...
- of a pressure ...

It's a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Isn't it? Mmmmm. Marvellous.
Enduring image, isn't it, hmm? Association football? English national game! 1966... there's people on the pitch... they think it's all over - it is now! Haw! Little Alan Ball? Childish in mid-field, hmm? High-pitched voice? Ginge? Bobby Moore, holding it aloft. You know. Marvellous.
Is George Best the old Ryan Giggs? But Giggsy-wiggsy. Precocious talent, isn't he? Mmm? Ooh, got it all, you know? Speed, acceleration, sweet left foot, all the tricks - the dummy, the drop of the shoulder, the shimmy, nutmeg, jiggery-pokery, hocus pocus, abracadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya. Steve Miller Band? Spin Doctors? Ooh, very similar.
Diamond formation? Does anyone really know what that is? I mean, at least you knew where you were with Alf Ramsey's wingless wonders. You know? 4-4-2, 4-2-4, 4-3-3... 0898 654000, freephone double glazing?
Oh, those Brazilians, you know? Circa 1970? Broke the mould. Theory out the window. Free expression of football. Uncategorisable. Is that a word? It is now! You know? Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.

by Phil - Mon 12th Mar 2007, 10:45am

Tom Coker to turn up too drunk to play: 80%

I bloody hope not, we've got an outing immediately before hand! Although I suppose he could hit it hard on the way to the match.

by butter fingers - Mon 12th Mar 2007, 11:23am

Matt Byrne to crown a mazy dribble from his own half with an outrageous left-foot chip over the onrushing goalkeeper: 13%

As (I think) the FaT keeper... I don't think I could ever live this down!

by mjb - Mon 12th Mar 2007, 2:41pm

butter fingers said: As (I think) the FaT keeper... I don't think I could ever live this down!

Don't worry, I'm absolutely useless with my left foot.

by BPBC manager - Mon 12th Mar 2007, 8:59pm

mjb said: Don't worry, I'm absolutely useless with my left foot.

I wish you'd told me that earlier, Matt. Now I'll have to rip up our tactical masterplan and go back to the drawing board.

Interestingly, the only option yet to claim a single vote is 'No injuries'.

by dw229 - Mon 12th Mar 2007, 9:01pm

Interestingly, the only option yet to claim a single vote is 'No injuries'.

Didn't Kernigit snap his cruciate ligament in the last match like this?

by mjb - Tue 13th Mar 2007, 10:42am

BPBC manager said: I wish you'd told me that earlier, Matt. Now I'll have to rip up our tactical masterplan and go back to the drawing board.

Interestingly, the only option yet to claim a single vote is 'No injuries'.

Well, I could have been bluffing ...

by rjn - Tue 13th Mar 2007, 10:56am

Keernigit is claiming to be bed-ridden after a knee operation at the mo (this was his excuse for not subbing for me anyway), don't know if such a match is the reason he had to have the knee op... Maybe.

by BJ - Sat 17th Mar 2007, 9:19am

Neil T said:
...
Anyone to score at the post-match social: 50%
...
No WAGs present: 11%
1-5 WAGs present: 47%
6-10 WAGs present: 11%
11+ WAGs present: 14%
...

Any support would of course be appreciated: 2pm at Cranmer Road, or get in touch with us when you get back from WeHoRR and see which pub we've made it to...