Waiting for the goalkeeping-Godot

GOLDEN CODGERS 28-EHL 33


Football must not be and will never be a rational game. But Football is indeed "beauty and duty". If the Codgers always sublimate the game, sometimes playing as naturally as a cat with a ball of yarn, it must be admitted that organization and role-playing must be part of this very theatrical sublimation. Organization is the word the Codgers could not decline yesterday during the match against the hard-working and certainly not-pushovers EHL boys, who crushed our heroes 33-28. Far from imposing their usual style of football, the Codgers could not decide who was playing where along the pitch leaving Matthew alone against three or four men- advancing like a compact phalanx- one time too many . Moreover, one must admit that although if he does not score goals like Ravi (9 hits yesterday) or Luca (4), Amin (5), Ahmet (5), Michael (3) or Will (2), a goal-keeper is a much-needed character in the game-play. The rest of the players can blow a goal and then almost immediately redeem themselves, but when flying balls irredeemably enter the net with almost not professional expertise to save them, problems arise. Put it simple, the Codgers need a doorman who could help the other tenants to live and prosper in the building....let's hope they will find one by next Thursday when the rematch (when Michael and Matthew will both be unavailable) is scheduled, otherwise, as the real goalkeepers are condemned to watch the game from afar, the Codgers will watch their next victory from afar....