Crouching Tiger, Hidden Blog!

It been awhile…but I am still here…I just took a 2 week sabbatical to see the reaction, from you the readers. And the reaction was “numerous” complaints of a lack of blog!

So the Skidmarks season has ended for another 9 weeks and all in all it wasn’t our most successful season but we managed a healthy 4th place in the end. Below is the final league table excluding the last game.



Our last 2 results of the season were as follows :

Skidmarks 4 – 0 Euro Utd

One of our better, more solid performances of the season saw us keep our first cleansheet in a long while as we as push aside a decent Euro Utd team. After my gloating last week of no-one else taking up the scoring mantle this year apart from I, The Ginja Ninja, Dom “Moaninho” Albrecht and Gary “Days of our Lives” Hatfield rose to the challenge, with Gary sealing a neat hat trick and Dom slotting home the other goal. My memory isn’t as good as it used to be so no lovely, creative descriptions this time round but there will be more to come.

Skidmarks 3 – 4 Village Idiots

Our last game of the season saw us pitted against arch rivals Village Idiots who had won 8 out of 8 games so far in the season and we also had to field a slightly weakened side of only 6 players, missing Bruce “” Andersen, Mike “Wunderkind” Herb and our inspirational, spectacular, hard working, masterful and ridiculously good looking leader The Ginja Ninja who was representing the *NGA in Cape Town for a couple days.

From what I hear it was another good overall team performance and we were unlucky not to take something from the game. The goalscorers were Adam ”Mini-me” Humphreys, Peri “Toe Poke-her” Zourides and Gary “Bold and the beautiful” Hatfield.

* National Ginger Association

All this means the Golden Skidmark had a record number of 12 different goalscorers for the season and ends up looking like this :

GOLDEN SKIDMARK STANDINGS
1) Luke "Bionic Man" Hatfield - 11
2) Gary "No-one remembers 2nd place" Hatfield - 9
3) Dom "Ballack is DIRTY" Albrecht - 5
4) Peri "P" Zourides - 3
5) Ulundi "Stevie G" Makhanya -2
6) Peter "That old guy" Dunias - 1
7) Bruce "The Matrix" Andersen - 1
8) Ricky "Daddy" Arnold - 1
9) Rhys "The Lawnmower" Davies -1
10)Richard "Cutting Shapes" Kenny - 1
11)Mike "The Ultimate Man" Herb - 1
12)Adam "Mini-Me" Humphreys - 1

Whats that I hear ??? Speech you say ….. ok then

It what was to be my swansong season as a Skidmarks player, I would just like to thank my parents for always supporting me in my decision to become a Skidmark, for giving me the confidence to toe poke the ball without hesitation or fear. I would like to thank my team mates for not being able to outscore me, without them I wouldn’t be typing here, and lastly….the fans…..to the many fans who come watch us week in and week out and to all the fan mail and comments I receive….I thank you.!

Thanks all for voting in our first ever online dance off, the results are as below although I do suspect something fishy around the number of votes received for “The Can Can”….but we’ll let it slide. Well done to Quentin who is the creature featured in the winning clip "The Robot/Worm/Running Man". The good news is “The Dance Off 2 : Savannah Nights” will be coming soon, featuring Mike “Ryk en Lekker” Sarakis and non other than our own part timer “Richard “Saliva” Kenny!



If you have entered the Champions League fantasy game @ http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/M/home.mc , our Skidmarks League code is : 67009-11668

The Skidmarks will be competing in their first ever World Cup on Saturday 30 September, any support would be appreciated, times will be confirmed closer to the time, players who have confirmed so far are :

1) Luke “Me” Hatfield
2) Peri “Twinkle Toes” Zourides
3) Bruce “Neo” Andersen
4) Peter “Slick” Dunias
5) ?
6) ?
7) ?
8) ?

That leaves us with a few open spaces still but I will be in contact in the near future, there may even be a special appearance on the day by Sean “The Pygmy” Riscowitz!

For those of you who don’t read the tabloids, Gary is now officially a British citizen, he left last week, I will be joining him in London on 14 October!

Keep it real, keep it brown!