13 Santas

Here is a pic of the 13 santa clauses that they have in iceland. Rather than the friendly santa-gives u a present tradition in england/states or wherever, they have 13 santas that come, 1 on each day of christmas, and steal stuff. Or do bad things. eg. The widow peaker - ie a pervert santa, and the door slammer, and the sausage stealer etc. They also have a wickied-witch type figure who is the mother of the santas and steals children, and an evil cat who eats the children who don't receive clothes for Christmas. Don't ask. Anyways here's a pic.



Coming next.... Didier Drogba relaxes in the arctic sun.

Food

Alright guys, thought I'd write a quick post detailing some of the strange foods that I have eaten since arrivin on wednesday:
Dried (raw) lamb
Sheeps head - incl. eye and tongue. Get in there
Skate - a ray-like fish which they slap in a pile or put it underground so that it rots and then eat it on the 23rd of december every year. Can't say that it tastes great. Tastes like thick strong glue.
Icelandic equivalence to black pudding and haggis
Raw fish

Basically, i'm ridic healthy after all that. Plus i've been havin spoonfulls of cod-liver oil every mornin. Bring on the next football game boys, i'm gonna be awesome.

Icelando Update

Yo monkeys,

Thought you might want me to give you an update of my icelandic 'adventure'. Basically, to start off with, justyn you can stop doing your little "hi my names jim and i work in a button factory" dance. No need mate-y. All gravy up in the dark cold north.

The photo was taken at mid-day today. Like, the sun just decided, rather like me, to stroll out of bed at noon. fair play i reckon.

Anyways ladies, i gotta go so hope your all havin a good time, and no doubt the 24th will be the best day ever for you peeps. Happy b-day fozzo. Have a good one.

Laters

Al.
The pic is an ideal desktop background by the way.

p.s.
Current level of awkwardness: Zero. Not even a trace thus far, but early doors.

p.p.s
hanna says your all gay

Card Thrower

Card Thrower

MFA 2005

The first annual Melee Football Awards took place on Saturday night, with Redbourn’s ‘Chequers’ pub as the surroundings. Current manager Kevin Webb, who along with special guest Daz Carey oversaw the proceedings, presented the awards, which are voted for by fellow professionals. The ceremony took place over a nice meal, conveniently situated within walking distance of the infamous Fudge bar on the St. Albans road. There was little red-carpet treatment offered by the staff, as melee players again had to wait an exceptionally long time for their food to arrive.

The awards were kicked off with the prestigious Most Needed award. This year there was little doubt regarding who should win this and the absent Samba picked up this award.
The next award given out was due to be the School-Boy award. This was dropped from the schedule at the last minute for unknown reasons. A spokesperson for the ceremony said it seemed ‘a little harsh’.
The Work Horse award was next to be awarded, and it was handed out as a joint award to Justyn and Alex, both taking 33% of the vote.
Before Justyn had a chance to sit down, he had to collect another gong, or should I say post-it note. This time winning the unwanted Squanderer of the Year award. I’m sure he won’t keep that on his notice board.
It began to seem like it was going to be a ceremony full of absentees when the Rogue award was handed to Luke. Despite only having played 2 games in the current campaign, his ability to kick shins and argue with the ref meant that he just got the award from the clutches of his cousin Justyn by a single vote.
The Taxi award of the year went to Alex. The award was given for his, shall we say ‘unique’, performance when coming back from injury. Hampered by a severe, life-threatening illness, he took to arguing with the ref, presumably in the hope that he too would become ill. No illness materialised and Alex was sent to the stands for having bad breath.
The next award took a long time being given out. The Pele award, given for outstanding achievement in the area of show-boating genius, was awarded to Samuel who, by this time, had already slipped off down the road. (such an over-used joke, but just couldn’t resist it mate). Upon his return from the land of the yellow-hummer, he was handed the prestigious post-it. That’s definitely one to keep.
There were only two more awards to be handed out at this stage. The Player’s Player and the Manager’s Player. The Player’s Player was given jointly to three players, all receiving a third of the vote. These were Daudi, Nick and Samuel.
Finally, the Manager’s Player was given to Daudi. After an interview with the manager it was for “His ability to play on, even after he looked absolutely dead”.

http://www.goalsfootball.co.uk/Football/TournamentsUpcoming.aspx

Teams: Young and Old

A wee game

Stick man action

Finale

Not only is this the last game of the season, it is also the last Melee game of 2005 and, with no further matches scheduled, it could be the last game for a while. A win is as essential as doing a thorough check round a car before buying it, and as important as remembering to bend your knees when jumping off a balcony.
It will almost certainly be the last game for Andre aka Samba aka superman, as he heads back to his native land before travelling to India for 6 months next year.
Ideally, in an emotional occasion like this, you would want all the melee boys to be there. That can't be the case this time round unfortunately. With pedre busy proposing (and making me a rich man in the process), tom 'studying' at uni, luke spendin time with the pharoah, thats 3 down already. Add to that kevo on one leg, nick getting Sars/malaria and justyn having a graze on his knee, thats 6 down. Hopefully nick'll make it back for the game, or it might be a new recruit for the game in the form of Andrew Ciechan. (thats how you spell his surname by the way justyn).
Kick off this week is at 7pm, so whoever is driving will be doing the rounds about 6. The opposition is 'The Otter', who we beat last time round in what was probably the game of the season.

Melee(from): Andre, Daudi, Nick, Alex, Samuel, Kev

5/10

An old man was sitting on a bench in the shopping centre.
A teenager sat down next to him. He had spiked hair that
was red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet.
The old man stared. Whenever the teenager looked
across, the old man was staring.
Finally, the teenager said sarcastically: "What's the
matter old boy, never done anything wild in your life?"
Without missing a beat the old man replied: "Got drunk
once and had sex with a peacock. Just wondering if you were my son!"

Iceland: "you'll never know unless you go"

why go?

beautiful natural scenery, an undiscovered masterpiece of divine creation,
Eidur Gudjohnsen and ear-muffs.

iceland home to a consistantly average eurovision song contest performance, some ice, and a chick you might fancy.....

Can Melee Continue???

just thought i'd give you a couple of options for continuing Melee mid-week footy. check em out and give it your verdict.

1. football-mundial have leagues in dunstable and watford but website doesn't give details of prices or anything but it looks pretty pro. http://www.football-mundial.com/index.asp

2. Pitch-invasion is back in welwyn at gosling, so not far away. games have been extended to 36mins and its £30 a game
http://www.pitch-invasion.com/locations/locations.php?id_page_content=16#

3. Leisure leagues have ones in watford, st.albans and luton, game is only 26mins long but its only max £20. could be worth a look, they have hundreds of leagues going.
ttp://www.leisureleagues.net/search_index.htm

Kev

Firestarter dock-again

Jonnys

the first half saw some of the nicest most conving football melle has put together, samba nick and dave solid at the back, free runing flowing movement form alexy and sam was far too much for this shit team ane we well ahead, justyn came on for a bit - added an unnecessary edge to the game as we were doing well with the easy laid back style.

Still the boys pulled together well, Dace coops came off (man of the match) and we began to tire slughtly, had a 20 min lull but nothing to worry about. A concing win 17 11 maybe i dunno. Dave scored 6 which puts him top scorer of the game and chasing the golden boot award.

Jonny banter:

Magic in the air this weekend as the janes step into the thick of things:

Jonny coz has his 4 month anniversery with egyptian jane - whos flying out to ireland to see him. Mast as ive always said 'if you can 4 months you can go 57 years'

Alls Jane is coming down from manchester to watch the jonnys play football - she also might be going to brighton but im sure its mainly for the footy. in which we will see Sameuel make his debut. Shit me is the mid hearts league in for a treat.

Love to you all Jonnys

Jonny

Had to post...

Had to post this preview purely so that naked fat bird moves further down the blog.

So frustrating when i forget that she's there and I scroll down and i see her. Kevo your wrong.

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Jugar Futebol.

Alright lads. Its the latest kick off ever this week. KO is at 9.50pm. I know its ridic. We'll be doing the rounds at 9. Nick has gone galivanting off to see his boyfriend in Preston and may or may not be back for the game. He loves to leave us guessing. Justyn has broken a toe nail or something and may remain out, apparently he has a manicure on thursday evenings at the moment so it depends whether he can squeeze a game in around that. Despite a great performance in goal last week, with samba-the-man back kevo drops to the bench. Moranginho is set to make his debut for Kings this weekend and will start on Thursday (no real surprise there)

Melee (from): Andre, Daudi, Alex, Samuel, Justyn, Nick
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Match Report is Here!!

As the season turned festive Melee took to the rubber crumb on a horrible wet december night. With spirits low, a lack of warm-up and certain team members thinking about the Xbox 360 a slow start was on the cards. Melee went two down early doors with a couple of long range efforts that swerved viscously! Quickly Melee realised they needed to up their game and soon started place their influence on the opposition. A quick fire scoring spree saw all four outfield players score, the highlight coming as Daudi hammered in a long shot, to see Sam 'the special one' uel cheekily flick the ball through his legs to beat the stationery keeper.

This left the score 5-3 with Melee in the accendence. The rest of the first half saw some slick pass and move footy, although the opposition did their best to help make Melee look good. The Coup bro's worked hard both scoring a couple of excellent goals, while Samuca was his normal majestic self. Defensively Melee were in control with the ex-jonny panda commanding his back line, however some good play from one Chorleywood player left him scoring all the goals, mostly from long shots. Some neat finishing left Melee 12-6 up at half-time.

Melee kept to their normal tradition by starting the second half slower than an overweight tortoise. Chorleywood took advantage of the slack start and placed the ball past the keeper three times before Melee replied. Of course it was the wee 'magic man' who got involved with a nice passing move to finish the ball home. Second half finishing was poor compared to the first with al, sam and dave (pen) all missing from 3 yards. However the game never looked in doubt and Melee crusied to a 17-12 victory, collecting another 3 points to keep the very slim chance of promotion alive.

Highlights - Jonny Fudge nut megging one guy, strolling past another and finishing with a class far to good for the Chorley players

Lowlights - Team second half performance was lack luster as opposition should have been dominated. (as jonny said after the game - "they only had one guy, we should have man marked" - you could say wise words, you could say foolish, we will never know!!)

Player Ratings -

Samuel - 8 (MOM) - Brilliant again, superb tricks, great goals, bullied opposition defence

Alex - 8 - Worked tirelessly all game, scored some good goals and got back to make some crucial challenges.

Dave - 8 - Comfortable performance, part of some class passing moves, scored a cracker but missed a pen

Nick - 8 - Commanding performace at the back, never did anything wrong, had the striker in his pocket the whole game. Most goals were conceded from long range or keeper error.

Kev - 7 - Some good saves, some bad. some good distribution, some bad, but all in all not a bad return for a man who still cant walk properly

yours sincerley

the match report man

Match report comin soon

Kevo's gonna do the match report on saturday...

differences

Jonnys we are all one in the same
-none of us gay, we'd all take a jane
but there are some things between you and I
differences that are not easy to spy

some are relaxed, and some are laid back
while others are hyper, and coolness they lack
some are just fickle and talk all the time
while others are quiet, but have skill thats sublime

some won't stop shouting, and some like to moan
some can't yet run, some don't answer the phone
some get called home early, by mum or the wife
despite all these differences, what a great life!