{"id":10572,"date":"2018-05-27T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10572"},"modified":"2018-05-27T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T20:25:50","slug":"saturday-26th-may-2018-i-have-just-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10572","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 26th May 2018 – I HAVE JUST SEEN …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… something that I have never ever seen before.<\/p>\n

One of US Granville’s attacker bursts into the EC Tessy Moyon Sports box, and goes down under a challenge from a defender. The referee blows hiw whistle and points to the penalty spot.<\/p>\n

The match is being played at the Stade Louis Dior despite it being the 3rd XI. I’m in the grandstand, absolutely level with the incident and quite high up, so I have a perfect view. And in mt opinion that was one of the best challenges that I have seen at this level of football.<\/p>\n

The Tessy Moyon players are furious, their coach is livid, The US Granville player comes to the touchline and shouts something to his captain. The captain takes the kick – and kicks it to the corner flag.<\/p>\n

Apparently the referee was the only person in the whole stadium who thought that that was a penalty. But I’ve never seen a team kick away a penalty before. The Age of Chivalry isn’t dead after all.<\/p>\n

It was another struggle to leave the stinking pit this morning, We Went through the usual morning procedure followed by a shower, and then Caliburn and I hit the streets <\/p>\n

We went the long way out to the garage, out to near Br\u00e9hal and down the by-pass. The idea is to get the engine stinking hot so that it burns more efficiently and shows a better reading on the air meter. The best laid schemes o\u2019 Mice an\u2019 Men gang aft agley, as Robert Burns would have us believe. I ended up being stuck behind a load of grockles crawling along the road.<\/p>\n

However, none of this caused a problem and at the Controle Technique, not only were we early but we were in and out and finished even before the time of the appointment. Caliburn passed with no problems and there is nothing to worry about as far as his bodywork goes. He’ll be 11 on Tuesday by the way<\/p>\n

Sopping today was just Noz and LeClerc. I didn’t feel like going all the way round to LIDL. And it didn’t take me long to buy what I needed (and to buy nothing else) and I was home by 11:30. Maybe I ought to go out this early again.<\/p>\n

Having put everything away and having had a coffee, it was lunchtime. Beautiful weather for it too, sitting on the wall watching the shipping, eating my butties, reading my book and chatting to the lizard. He was enjoying the weather too.<\/p>\n

Back here, shame as it is to admit it, I crashed out yet again for a good hour too. Perhaps this early start wasn’t such a good idea after all. But I was up and about and ready for my trek up town.<\/p>\n

Some of the trek involved following a couple of beautiful young maidens. They stopped somewhere along the route and gave a kiss to some boy who was clearly a friend.
\n“Could I have a kiss too?” I enquired. But the trouble today is that no-one has a sense of humour.<\/p>\n

\"stade<\/a>It was a beautiful evening for football and we were lucky enough to be at the Stade Louis Dior for this. It’s not very often that the 3rd XI get to play here.<\/p>\n

No-one on the gate at all of course so we could just walk in and go anywhere, so I blagged a seat in the stands where the view is quite good.<\/p>\n

US Granville were 8th going into the match and EC Tessy Moyon Sports were 7th, and eo we expected a hard-fought tight match and that’s exactly what we got.
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\"stade<\/a>Granville had most of the play but couldn’t convert the chances that they were making. And it seemed that fortune might have been on their side when Tessy Mosson were obliged to replace their goalkeeper with an outfield player after a collision.<\/p>\n

But the new keeper was actually quite good – he’d clearly played in goal before and at a reasonable standard too. He was coming out for crosses – and catching them too – and his handling and distribution was quite good too.
<\/p>\n

But he was eventually beaten by a ball over the top and a Granville player running on for a one-on-one. No-one could complain about the keeper there.<\/p>\n

\"thunder<\/a>But the real highlight of the evening was the weather.<\/p>\n

There had been some rumbling and grumbling in the distance, and then a huge dark cloud started to blow over the ground.<\/p>\n

And you can see, if you look closely, the torrential rain that is falling, away over there in the distance. We were going to be in for it.
<\/p>\n

The rain waited until we were leaving the stadium before it let go. And then we got the lot.<\/p>\n

Luckily there was a strong wind blowing so I kept in the lee of the buildings at the side of the road. Had I been in the open, I would have been a drowned rat before I’d gone 50 yards.<\/p>\n

But it was quickly over. And we had one of those unusual phenomena of a sharp weather front, where you could see the end of the rainstorm like a curtain as it drew away from me up the street. It’s been a while since I’ve seen something like that.<\/p>\n

\"sunset<\/a>Back here, I hadn’t completed my 100% daily activity which is a surprise. There’s definitely something wrong with the fitbit.<\/p>\n

And so I went for a lap around the block until the 100% came up, and this enabled me to watch the sun sink slowly into the sea, surrounded by flashes of lightning and rolls of thunder something like The Return Of The Demon King.<\/p>\n

But I was too tired to do much back here. I even fell asleep talking to someone on the laptop. So in the end I went to bed.
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Sunday tomorrow. A day of rest. And I need it too.<\/p>\n

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