Melee vs Welwyn - July 25th

Melee started the game with 2 games deficet having not even taken the field in this league yet. Rumour has it that this is due to some confusion of Peter Gouldings emminent transfer from Melee to the Montana Munchies and 3rd party registration.

It was an emotional occasion as Goulding would be playing his last match with Melee for a while.
The opposition was Welwyn Wanderers - just above Melee in the table. As they took to the field the opposition with their lanky striker looked like they might give melee a stern test.
However this myth was dispelled within about 5 minutes as Melee went 5 goals up without response. A cracker from Couper from within his own half, followed by a plethera of goals from Goulding, Tafe and Justyn. Once Melee felt like they were comfortable their marking got slack and Welwyn punished them with a few goals being pulled back. However some nice flowing football that stripped through the opposition and left Melee with an 8-5 advantage at half time redeemed any niggling doubts.
The second half saw Melee go up a gear - with even the goalie - sam coming out and waltzing through a couple of players and then blasting a left footed shot past the goalie.

I feel like I would be doing sports journalists everywhere a discredit if I did not bring the poor refereeing to light. He could not add up the goals scored (he claimed Melee had but 14 goals when TV replays showed at least 16) and his inconsistancy meant both teams were left bewildered by his decisions!

At the end of the night though, Goulding had scored 6 goals and Tafe had been enjoying punishing some rookie defending for the now distraught Welwyn side, and even Justyn was getting heavily involved with a lot of great defending and a hat trick to boot.

Because of other results Melee are now only 3 points behind the leaders despite a 2 game disadvantage. Can Melee come back and win the league?
Stay tuned folks.

Gossip Column

According to the Montana Tribune, Peter has alterior motives for moving back to the US - and it is not to further his football carrier - could a japanese/dutch/canadian young lady be the reason - Peter refused to comment.

After Justyn's hat trick performance yesterday night it has been confirmed, Hell has frozen over.

David's knee injury was not as serious as first thought although he will not be in any training sessions for this week.

Andrew Porter is silently relieved that Goulding is moving otherwise he would have been on the bench for who knows how long. Andrew said "there is no animosity - it is just nice not to have the competition for my place"