… bad night’s sleep last night.
But I was still up and about at 08:30 in time to go to Montlucon.
The trouble is though that after only about 3 hours sleep I’m never in a good mood, I can’t concentrate and I can’t think straight. I couldn’t remember what it was that I needed from Brico Depot and when I did find some things I wasn’t able to summon up the energy to load them up onto Caliburn’s roof rack.
In fact, for several reasons I wasted my time in going.
It didn’t help in that the Auchan only had early seed potatoes. No onions, no garlic, no shallots, no maincrop seed potatoes and so that was a washout. In the end, I went to Mr Bricolage to see if they had anything exciting.
Nothing at all, as it happened but firstly I bumped into Rob and Nicolette from down the road and we had a good chat;
And then who else should turn up but Liz and Terry. We all had a good chat and then Liz, Terry and I went down the road to Jardiland. They had everything that I needed in the vegetable line, but at quite a price.
Never mind though, Liz and I went halves on most things and so it wasn’t too bad.
After a coffee together my early start ended up being one of the latest returns from Montlucon that I had ever had and I almost missed the start of the footy matches back at Pionsat.
There were two tonight – the 3rd XI of Pionsat St Hilaire against Biollet-St Maurice and the Ist XI against Malauzat.
In the away match at Biollet St Maurice the 3rd XI had led for much of the game but faded away at the end to lose. But today, with a full team out (but no goalkeeper) they looked the business.
At one stage they were 3-0 up but faded away at the end and hung on grimly for a 4-3 win. And if Biollet St Maurice hadn’t have missed a penalty earlier in the game it would have been a different story again.
But a win is a win, and it’s a rare enough event for the 3rd XI so they are quite right to celebrate it.
The big difference in the team today was that Simon, who used to play for the 1st XI, was out there playing at centre-forward. He now lives in Switzerland but luckily the club has retains his French football registration.
He he had come back this weekend to visit his family and one of his friends from the football club had talked him into playing.
It was his irst match for over a year, he told me after the match and to be honest, it looked like it too,
But there was no denying his skill and ball control, and he and Stéphane Gomet, playing on the left wing, spent most of the match tearing the Biollet St Maurice defence to shreds.
It’s a shame that they can’t find a decent goalkeeper for the team because that really is the difference.
FC Pionsat St Hilaire’s 1st XI were playing ESV Malauzat in the second match and they also won their match.
2-0 the final score was, and they never ever at any moment looked under any pressure. I don’t recall Matthieu having much to do in the FC Pionsat St Hilaire goal.
However ESV Malauzat’s keeper was working overtime and if it wasn’t for him we would have had a cricket score this evening.
The weather broke too at about 22:00 and now it’s pouring down. And I’m off to bed because I’m really whacked.
