Dear Footlicans,
I made that word up. It seems like
it should be a word though. Something like 'publicans' or
the like. Anyway, that's my start and I 'm sticking with
it. So, although I have several topics that I would like
to introduce regarding proper manners and etiquette
before, during and after the match, I just feel that it is
too early in the season for me to start lecturing you all
on your/our personal behaviours so I will wait until a
latter Newsletter for that. Even though some incidents
have already occurred and Jurrien has at least a 10 minute
stand-up routine that will have anyone listening rolling
on the ground in stitches, today I will just comment on
some things that I have observed since the start.
Best JiFL Match this
Season
(so far):
Vikings
-v- Nomads (5-6) October 14th at ISCI -
Back and forth action from start to finish. Advice: Do
not foul any Vikings players within 35 yards of your
goal. Their big Danish striker, Christoper
Ellemann, will expertly return that ball into
your goal. He took a hat-trick of free-kicks and
placed them all expertly in the net last week. For the
Nomads, on the other hand, Patty Onana
(son of Jules-Denis Onana
www.onanafootball.com) is
finally coming of age and beginning to dominate the
league. He looks like a candidate for a future
professional contract offering sometime in the next couple
of years.
Best Facelift &
Makeover:
The Mighty Lions FC
- An excellent character and flavour to that club with an
injection of some decent footballers and good characters.
Excellent praise to Manager Richard Henry and JiFL
All-Star '09 Ollie Anderson for upgrading the team this
year. May you all get through the season intact, healthy
and satisfied.
Best Pitch
(so far):
Global Jaya International School. More
praise for Principal Henry.
Worst Sporstman of the
Season
(so far):
After the match in the De Hooi Pub in Pondok Indah (is
this why they refer to us as a pub league?)
Captain Newley of BuGils was overheard accusing
Dale of being a t*&%t and being the reason that some
players broke away from Wanderers and created Sabor
Latino. Actually, I thought that this was the club that
was based on Nelson Sanchez's original base and then taken
over by Pedro, re-packaged, re-christened and presented
this year. I actually don't think that Dale has anything
to do with it so it is odd that such comments/rumours are
floating around. Ray Goggles just says that the
local Englishmen in general just hate him as a favorite
pastime because the English need to have an enemy as it is
in their national historical character to do so. I
suggest that if you have anything to say to Dale than you
ask him directly. Honestly, he is the probably the most
honest man in this league, to be honest.
Best Ball in the
World:
The JiFL's Puma v1.08.
It is the best since Tango, but be aware that it is
tantamount to success to make sure that this high
performance ball is fully pumped up at the maximum
recommended PSI level. I noticed that the referees are not
aware of this yet and just seem to think that as long as
it looks okay then it must be okay. Not true. It
absolutely must be at the recommended precise air pressure
for it to be the proper weight in order for it to be able
to do what is designed to do. And it is better to be a
little too hard than for it to be a little too soft (which
is true of a lot of things).
I cannot mention anything else as I
have not yet witnessed your sides in action and I would
not like to known as a tasteless rumour-monger. By the
way, we have a Blog available for comments and the like.
It is quite fun to go there and read up on things from
other points of view and to see old friends returning to
comment like Ian McGillivray has done.
Just click
http://jifl.net/blog/ to
go there and then hover with the mouse icon over any
headline to open, read and comment.
Take care, all the best, and see you 'Live on the Pitches'....
- Your Hero
