{"id":94,"date":"2012-10-14T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-07-11T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:27:01","slug":"there-were-no-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 14th October 2012 – THERE WERE NO …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… hunters shooting off their guns in the neighbourhood, no low-flying Air Farce jets, no driving rain beating down on the windows in the roof, no mice doing clog dances in the ceiling, none of the neighbours using a chainsaw .<\/p>\n

And so to disturb my Sunday morning Day of Rest, some b****** rang me up on the phone at 09:00. Makes me thoroughly sick.<\/p>\n

And seeing as how I started my day in a bad mood, that’s how I carried on.<\/p>\n

I watched the odd Bulldog Drummond film. It’s amazing what is available to download on www.archive.org<\/a> – before I went to Canada I downloaded tons of films from there to watch out there in my car at night. <\/p>\n

Who needs DVDs?<\/p>\n

I also continued to catch up with registering the data that I collect from the various recording instruments around here. <\/p>\n

Every night I write it all down but I’ve been very lax in entering it on the computer. I need to organise myself much more.<\/p>\n

\"fcpsh<\/a>This afternoon, braving the howling wind, the driving rain and the freezing temperature, I went off to watch Pionsat against Clermont Foot Auvergne<\/p>\n

And a quick glance across the car park tells you exactly what you are going to be up against. When was the last time that any football club has had a team coach in order to bring its players to Pionsat?<\/p>\n

But still, a match is never over until the 90 minutes has been played, and this driving rain and howling gale might be a great leveller.
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\"fcpsh<\/a>Clermont Foot Auvergne sent their under-21 team for the match and even so, it was still no contest. Pionsat were simply swept aside, as everyone was expecting.<\/p>\n

What made it worse was that FC Pionsat St Hilaire had no recognised goalkeeper again. <\/p>\n

Michael bravely volunteered once more as you can see in this photo where he brilliantly saves from a Clermont attacker
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\"fcpsh<\/a>But despite Michael’s heroics between the posts, neither he nor anyone else could do anything about the relentless Clermont Foot Auvergne side. <\/p>\n

If I remember correctly, the opposing goalkeeper just had one shot to save during the entire match.<\/p>\n

As is usual in matches such as these, most of the damage was done in the final 20 minutes when the benefits of full-time “proper” training pays dividends.<\/p>\n

Pionsat’s players were run into the ground whereas the Clermont players hadn’t even broken into a sweat.
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\"fcpsh<\/a>But hang on a minute – what is this?<\/p>\n

Yes, the referee this afternoon has stopped the game and held up play so that a Pionsat player could tie up his bootlaces that were trailing everywhere and risking tripping him up.<\/p>\n

Contrast that with last week when the referee allowed play to continue with FC Pionsat St Hilaire’s goalkeeper flat-out unconscious on the edge of his own penalty area, and you will see exactly what I mean about just how much of a poor decision that one was last week.
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So with the football over and FC Pionsat St Hilaire well-out of the cup I came back home and, believe me, I’m not going anywhere else tonight. The weather really is atrocious.<\/p>\n

-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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