Despite all the tantrums across the past week Harry was eventually allowed to go to the Gunners match on Sunday. It was a 9am kick-off so that meant an early start. As always, whenever an early start is required the children were fast asleep and had to be woken. Why they didn’t do that the morning before I don’t know!
Anyway, we arrived at Starfire at 8:30am and got ourselves comfortable ready for the big kick-off. This week the Gunners were up against another Crossfire team having despatched another a week earlier. Despite not having a referee the game kicked-off and quite clearly the referee wasn’t the only one still asleep as the Gunners were a bit sluggish. After the shout went up from the crowd of “wake up Gunners” they sparked into life and almost scored with this goal mouth scramble:
httpv://youtu.be/jcH4p0qYcTU
The pressure told in the end though with Ben scoring one goal and then Harry going close:
httpv://youtu.be/e1Fdu-1c2a0
It wasn’t much longer until Gunners got their second and a lovely goal it was too from #34:
httpv://youtu.be/hg2XG1UFuPA
With the score 2-0 at half-time, we hoped for a reasonably stress free second half. It still wasn’t stress free enough for Tracy who had to leave at the start of the second half and go for a walk! She needn’t have worried though, three more goals for the Gunners followed, including another for the Stickman, and the final score was 5-0. The Gunners stay top for another week at least and it was a good finale for their coach who is heading back to the UK. They have a new Brazilian coach now so hopefully there will be lots of samba football to come!
Go Gunners!
The Gunners progress in the league can be followed here http://www.pugetsoundpremierleague.com/schedules/Fall2011/36487199.html