Beef Bagel

Evening all. Just when you’d thought I’d forgotten about you. As if The Bagel would.

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There’s only one way to cover over the hurt of recent loss and that’s to imagine how much better we can be with a whole new set of players and there’s nearly been enough connected with our club in the last few days to make an entire XI. Actually, there’s eight so you’ll have to imagine there’s been a bit of a scuffle and three have been sent off, most notably the goalkeeper. Thankfully, we do still have three defenders on the pitch and all centre halves in a solid 3-4-2 formation.

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It’s not the result, is it? It’s the way we played. Actually, it’s the result as well. It all seemed to be going ok until the first goal. We looked solid enough at the back and there’d even been a good effort from Steeeeeed with his run down the left and shot on goal in just the kind of way we’d hope from a man playing in our problem position but it all fell apart. We never seemed to get hold of the ball and on the few occasions that we did we either got dispossessed for our lack of urgency or panicked a wayward pass. Every move we made was under the immediate pressure of a red shirt and nowhere on the field did we get the better of our oldest of enemies. We were quite simply out thought and out played.

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