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We welcomed Guest Sonny to his first match with us. We also recognise that he suffered a freak injury in a fall on seven minutes. We wish Sonny a full recovery. We noticed that Liban or the Legend of Liban, depending which one prefers, from the previous team was still around so he joined us to help out with our numbers. We are grateful to both guests.

Before the match Israel90 had made a genuine title eliminator call to VIIGeorgeVII to face off as captains. The latter forwent the normal captains alternate picking and indicated a preference for drawing a vertical line to seperate players into two teams. At match kick off Israel90 indicated that he could not subscribe to such a team determination method. The match therefore was not sanctioned as a belt eliminator or a Captain of Captains league game.

VAR Check 19:06 On the Clock

Did the outfield attacking player make contact with the ball while either it or he were within or on the boundary of the penalty area?

VAR shows that ball had not cleared the boundary of the penalty area when the striker hit it

VAR Decision: On field challenge upheld, goal ruled out

The Mufti were winning by playing a simple solid game of putting a compact defence in front of their goal and maintaining this discipline against a less solid opposition defence.

43:50 on the clock With the Mufti 6 - 1 ahead the White Bibs worked out a way through the Mufti's defence. Jumhal in attack for the White Bibs walked the last Mufti defender to the perfect central position he wanted him in and then waited for the wing ball that he knew the keeper had tried twice before. Wide goal kick lofted to Jumhal now out on the wing. Ball bounces and Jumhal smashes it into the net. Perfectly improvised old fashioned route one goal. When a team is behind, football becomes about finding solutions to problems and trying different things.

A minute later the White Bibs thought they had scored another goal but a VAR check was again called for.

VAR Check 44:32 On the Clock

Did the outfield attacking player make contact with the ball while either it or he were within or on the boundary of the penalty area?

VAR shows that ball had not cleared the boundary of the penalty area when the striker hit it

VAR Decision

On field challenge upheld, goal ruled out

The resilience of the Mufti's defence left the White Bibs attack to work with very small margins that led to penalty area infringements. If the game was a chess match then the Mufti had the better defence and closing game. The White Bibs not playing to their full strengths simply ran out of time to regroup and find ways through their opponents' strategy.

The disallowed goal would see the end of the Bibs mini revival.

Mufti 6 - 2 White Bibs

The match ended with a shrewd, quickly taken, free kick leading to a final goal by the Mufti. Even in this goal there was learning to be had. A canny opponent smiles kindly and might even shake hands while plotting. There is no harm in finding legitimate ways to slow down a free kick being taken.

Match Ball shared between Ed and Leon94 who each scored a hat-trick.

Final Score

Mufti 7 - 2 White bibs

Match awarded to the Mufti

Things to Note

Our season for Captain of Captains league and belt purposes ends on Wednesday 27 May 2026. On that day we will know who has won the league and belt.

In the stakes of Old School Captains (arranged in alphabetical order where WLD the same)

Leon94 C11x W8 D0 L3

VIIGeorgeVII C6x W3 D1 L2

Eddie117 C4x W3 D0 L1

Elvis C5x W3 D0 L2

Israel90 C4x W2 D0 L2

Naz C7x W1 D1 L5

MGure C1x W1 D0 L0

Fabiocc117 C2x W1 D0 L1

Jimmy9 C2x W1 D0 L1

Jumhal C2x W1 D0 L1

Kenanaliriza C2x W1 D0 L1

Leonalexis C2x W1 D0 L1

Mash10 C2x W1 D0 L1

BILZ96 C1x W0 D0 L1

Chev C1x W0 D0 L1

Andyhibbert C2x W0 D0 L2

Hagenius C2x W0 D0 L2

Let's do it all again next match at Tottenham Wednesday FC