{"id":10359,"date":"2018-03-31T20:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2018-04-05T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:46:14","slug":"saturday-31st-march-2018-you-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10359","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 31st March 2018 – YOU MISSED …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cite<\/a>… an exciting football match this evening. <\/p>\n

US Granville were playing CS Villedieu – a team one Division below them – in the Normandy Cup, and ran out 5-1 winners.<\/p>\n

You might think that this indicates that CS Villedieu were on the receiving end of a right spannering, but nothing could be further from the truth. The scoreline is extremely unfair to them.<\/p>\n

The game hinged on a two-minute spell after about an hour. Up until then the teams had been very evenly matched and although Granville were 1-0 up thanks to a goal after about 15 minutes, the lead was by no means whatever a comfortable one.<\/p>\n

But then CS Villedieu broke away upfield with some nice play and had a shot on goal that beat absolutely everyone, including the US Granville keeper, but flashed about half a millimetre wide of the post. Had they scored, it would have been no more than they deserved.<\/p>\n

However, from the goal-kick, Granville roared upfield and won a corner. And the Granville centre-forward had a free header into the net.<\/p>\n

From the restart, the US Granville midfielder intercepted the ball, played it upfield and with some neat passing play from the forwards, the n\u00b010 (I think) found himself in a one-on-one with the Villedieu keeper and made no mistake. <\/p>\n

So within 60 seconds of what should have been 1-1, CS Villedieu found themselves 3-0 down.
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After that, things went from bad to worse for Villedieu. They were still playing some nice football and even pulled back a goal, but every time Granville had the ball up front they looked dangerous. As well as 2 more goals, we had two point-blank saves from the keeper and a resounding, thunderous volley that came back off the foot of the post.<\/p>\n

5-1 it was. 2-1 would have been a fairer result but it could so easily have been 7 or 8 for Granville.<\/p>\n

And I’ll tell you something else that I missed too. And I’m as malade as a perroquet<\/em> about it, as they say around here.<\/p>\n

There’s been a dash-cam in Caliburn for several years and it’s never ever recorded anything interesting. And yet today, there we were at the roundabout near LeClerc and a motorist a few cars in front of me stops to give way. A tourist behind (yes, it’s grockle-time again), too busy admiring a seagull, runs slap bang into the rear of him. Ad here I am with the dash-cam running!<\/p>\n

Or, at least, I thought I was. But it turns out that the SD card filled up about 100 yards beforehand and so had switched off. How upset am I?<\/p>\n

With having had a late night last night I didn’t have much sleep . And although I’d been on my travels, all memory of it disappeared in the time that it took to reach for the dictaphone.<\/p>\n

We had the usual morning ritual followed by a shower and a general clean-up, and then it was shopping-time.<\/p>\n

LIDL and NOZ came up with nothing much of any excitement, and I went to Mr Bricolage for some PTFE lubricant for the machine heads of the bass guitar. <\/p>\n

We then had the accident, and as I was pulling onto the car park at LeClerc, I almost collided with Liz and Terry coming in the opposite direction. So we went for a coffee, that passed into lunch, and I’m very grateful to Terry for hosting me. <\/p>\n

Nothing much of any excitement in there either, but I do now have an office chair (even though I don’t have an office as yet – but I will in early course) and that was quite by accident.<\/p>\n

With all of the time that it took for chatting and so on, it was just coming up to 14:00 when I was driving past BUT and they were reopening after lunch. And there was a big sign outside – “Clearance Sale – Massive reductions – Free Installation on Fitted Kitchens”. <\/p>\n

So I went in to see about a kitchen for here because I hate what I have and I want something much better than this. However, it won’t be happening from BUT. The “free installation” only applies to purchases of over \u20ac2500 and I’m looking to spend a tenth of that.<\/p>\n

But I had a look at the office chairs and there was one that was quite comfortable and quite robust. Not quite like the one that I had in Brussels that I could (and did on many occasions) curl up and go to sleep in, but it was \u20ac79:99 – which is cheap in itself – reduced by 50%! And they had run out of stock so after much discussion they let me have the display one for \u20ac36:00. I’ll go for that.<\/p>\n

This evening I had a brisk walk out to the Cit\u00e9 des Sports in the rain and howling gale for the football and because I’d brought a flask, the Hall and bar were open. Isn’t that typical?<\/p>\n

And on the way back I grabbed a portion of chips for tea. It’s good to catch up with old habits. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow is of course a Bank Holiday and a Sunday, so I’m going for two lie-ins. <\/p>\n

And why not?<\/p>\n

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