{"id":381,"date":"2011-11-07T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=381"},"modified":"2017-06-20T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T10:46:25","slug":"we-had-more-football-today-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 6th November 2011 &#8211; WE HAD MORE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; football today of course.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, we nearly didn&#8217;t. If Percy Penguin hadn&#8217;t sent me a text message I probably would be still in bed asleep right now. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111017.jpg\" alt=\"fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire football club de foot biollet st maurice pres pionsat puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>After a hurried breakfast I shot off to St Maurice pr\u00e8s Pionsat to watch the fist half of the 3rd XI&#8217;s match which kicks off at 13:00. I couldn&#8217;t stay long &#8211; only for the first half in fact, as I needed to be off to catch the 1st XI&#8217;s match that kicked off at 15:00 <\/p>\n<p>It was 1-0 in FC Pionsat St Hilaire&#8217;s favour when I left, but it turns out that they ended up by losing lost 2-1. and that makes me wonder what happened in the match because they were well ahead in the game from what I saw. <\/p>\n<p>But then it&#8217;s always going to be difficult for the 3rd XI without a recognised goalkeeper and I wish that the club would make more effort to find one for them.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111019.jpg\" alt=\"fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire football club de foot biollet st maurice pres pionsat puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a> But Pionsat&#8217;s goal was a pearler &#8211; another absolute  screamer from Xavier, 20 yards out.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s big and rather ponderous, just like a lower-league centre forward should be, but sometimes he pulls something out that is so unexpected. <\/p>\n<p>And he can be like that when he&#8217;s playing football too.<\/p>\n<p>He has probably the most powerful shot of any footballer I have ever seen, and like this one today, many a goalkeeper has put both hands on the ball but it hasn&#8217;t done the slightest bit of good.<\/p>\n<p>If there hadn&#8217;t been a net in that goal, the ball would have probably made it all the way to the Atlantic without bouncing.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111025.jpg\" alt=\"fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire football club de foot es malauzat puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>From there I had to drive like hell through the back lanes to the suburbs of Riom to watch FC Pionsat St Hilaire&#8217;s 1st XI in the match against E S Malauzat. And that was a hard-fought game that turned out to be very bad-tempered, and what made me happy in one sense was that most of the physical stuff was being dished out for a change by Pionsat.<\/p>\n<p>Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I&#8217;ve criticised the team time and time again for being something of a lightweight side, easily hustled off the ball, but they were nothing like that today. <br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1111\/1111023.jpg\" alt=\"fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire football club de foot es malauzat puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>Pionsat&#8217;s rather physical tactics were having the effect of making the opposing players become all wound up and the opposing specattors  were baying at the ref to do something about Pionsat&#8217;s physical (but reasonably legitimmate) tactics, but it all made absolutely no difference as Pionsat won 2-1<\/p>\n<p>Pionsat&#8217;s goals were two of the best goals that I have ever seen at this level of football. The one scored by Jerome was particularly outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>This was what I called a good day out<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>And so back home in the miserable depressing rain to find out that it has been miserable and depressing here all day and there&#8217;s been almost no solar energy today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still raining now &#8211; misty and foggy outside and it&#8217;s probably going to stay like this until next summer I reckon. But it&#8217;s not important because if it is still raining tomorrow I can finish off the steps and I&#8217;ve also bought the boards to make the worktops in the washroom bit. <\/p>\n<p>I also need to work out where I&#8217;m going to put the front door. That has come with its frame and so I reckon that it will be easier to fit it before it&#8217;s glazed as the door will be lighter and so easy to manipulate. I can then take the door out of the frame and have it glazed.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-381 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='381' data-nonce='3f4a5a8f9e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-381 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-381 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='381' data-nonce='3f4a5a8f9e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-381 unlc'>-1<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-381 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; football today of course. Mind you, we nearly didn&#8217;t. If Percy Penguin hadn&#8217;t sent me a text message I probably would be still in bed asleep right now. After a hurried breakfast I shot off to St Maurice pr\u00e8s Pionsat to watch the fist half of the 3rd XI&#8217;s match which kicks off at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7173,4507,8854,25,24,48,1616,258,8853,1812],"tags":[838,2560,8856,5278,5277,4171,5565,5366,8855,301,286,5411,1813,5415],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biollet","category-eric-hall-2","category-esv-malauzat","category-fc-pionsat-st-hilaire","category-fcpsh","category-football","category-france","category-les-guis","category-malauzat","category-st-maurice","tag-biollet-st-maurice","tag-eric-hall","tag-esv-malauzat","tag-fc-pionsat-st-hilaire","tag-fcpsh","tag-fog","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-malauzat","tag-percy-penguin","tag-rainstorm","tag-riom","tag-st-maurice-pres-pionsat","tag-xavier-semonsut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}