Night Shift News-Football Special

RM Romford FC 2 Brazil 2
The long awaited game of the Year kicked off on Saturday Jan 2nd. The original 3pm start was brought forward to 1pm to accommodate the huge turn out for this game, and to get volunteers to help sweep the snow from the pitch. Once the volunteers had finished, they had to quickly change into the home kit and run back onto the frozen ground for kick off. Romford Captain Neal Price won the toss, and chose to defend the supporters end, which could have been a difficult choice, as all four sides of the Sandgate Stadium were full, depending on camera angle, but it turned out to be a wise choice as his mate with the hip flask, was behind that particular goal.
With Kaka and Robinho in the starting line up for Brazil, Romford knew they had to be better than their last turn out against West Ham's youth team a few days before. And better they were, going 1-0 up through an own goal in the 7th minute. A quick corner resulted in a near post flick on by Robinson, only to see the ball cannon into the net by the defecting John Terry, who had received his Brazilian nationality that morning.
Brazil had more than one chance towards the end of the first half. In fact it was two. Terry climbed on Darren Moore for a piggy back ride, but missed the ball. Two minutes later, with Terry still on Moores back, Daniel Alves charged into the Romford penalty area, tripping Moore, which subsequently launched Terry into the goal. Offside was the ruling as more than one player had fallen over at the same time.
The ref blew for half time fags and beer and 15 minutes later we were off to the offy for more.
The second half was a slow and sloppy game and doesn't have much to report, but the last 10 minutes saw Brazil make a substitution, when Fernando Torres came on for Kaka. Torres had decided to become Brazilian because he liked the look, and said he felt comfortable with 'so little hair down there'.
Neal Price chose his moment to signal the bench, and a few moments later he did. And with a flurry of activity, 3 subs were ready to make an entry. But before the subs could get on the pitch, Robinho had unleashed a rocket to put the game at 1-1.
Romford took off Dennis Quinn, Darren Moore and Slartibartfast ( the on loan player from Hitch Hikers Guide To LA Galaxy) and brought on Cesc Fabregas, Carlos Tevez and Didier Drogba, who had all signed for Romford that morning.
Within a minute of the substitutions, Fabregas fed a sublime pass to Drogba, who slotted home neatly. A minute after that, Dani Alves hit a 40 yard free kick, that was so hard the ball is now in orbit. That made it 2-2. And the referee blew the full time whistle. Carlos Tevez didn't really feature that much. He looked like he was having trouble fitting into his new skin.
After the game, Romford's captain and team mentor, Neal Price, had a few words to say about the days events.
" It was a hard game, but we learned a lot. The way they passed the ball, and the movement was magical. We'll try passing next time. It looks like fun."
When asked about the support, he said, " Tremendous. It's amazing how you can make 15 people look like a couple of thousand, just by tying them to the TV camera's. Where ever the camera's were shooting, the same bunch of crowd were there. Almost like watching Top of the Pops."