Holiday Summary pt2(Leeds)

I can't say that i remember a great deal of the friday night, indeed i couldn't even remember what i had for dinner until i asked someone, a bad sign when the memory gaps start that early. I do remember getting a taxi back with 3 other team mates. 1 of whom will wish he had went straight to bed as he ended up passing out and being stripped naked from the waste down and displayed upon a snooker table. The photos that were taken must be worth a fortune in blackmail material, especialy that one with the snooker cue. I hasten to add i was sensible enough to head straight to bed and only heard about those disgraceful antics the next day.

Anyway on the football side of things we did quite well and were unlucky not to do a whole lot better. Missed chances were what cost us dearly. We finished 3rd in our group behind Hearts and Millwall teams and above Ayr. 2nd and 1st place even might have been ours if it wasn't for a series of missed chances against a Millwall team we battered for most of the 30 minutes and an own goal that had to be seen to be believed against Hearts. A more glorious lob of a keeper i have not seen.

Anyway we wern't to distraught finishing 3rd, it had been our target for the saturday getting seeded for Sundays Plate competition. Getting into the cup knockout would have been a good achievement but the Plate offered a better chance of a good run of games and possibly silverware?

Well that wasn't quite to be, we gave a good account of ourselves beating a better than anticipated Welling 2-0, scraping past Everton 2-1 with a golden goal before going out at the 1/4 final stage for a second time in 4 efforts(full record in plate been finalist, 1/4 final, 1st round, 1/4 final) on penalties to Stockport. They packed the defence and apart from a short spell near end of regulation time caused us no problems but a missed penalty in golden goal extra time was an ominous sign. We missed 3 pens in the shoot out and lost 4-3 in sudden death. Missing out on a chance of a rematch with Inter Milan.