Bangor City 4 Haverfordwest County 1
Welsh Premier League
We may have to start labelling Bangor the Yo-Yos. Us fans don't know what's coming next. To put it into Psychological terms we seem to be suffering from a bi-polar disorder at present. After last week's display the crowd was somewhat depleted. A few regulars weren't there so they must have assumed that another frustrating aftenoon was ahead. It did have the making of such an afternoon until Kendall, the comedy goalkeeper, intervened.
After handing in a book of raffle tickets for the super draw I took my usual place. Joel must be developing a taste for Bangor as he accompanied me again. The first half went well as Bangor even had shots on target. The first goal came after about half an hour. Jiws took the ball into the area, appeared to lose it, kept control of it and prod it past Kendall before he could flop on to it.During the rest of the half there was more attacking but no more goals for Bangor. This must have irked some of the Haverfordwest players as a mass brawl took place, or to be more exact; a mass ballroom dancing formation, as these incidents usually do. A few discreet enquiries at half time and we found out that Kendall was at the centre. Unfortunately for him this was not to be the last time that he came to our attention.
By 15 minutes into the second half Bangor had settled this game as they scored 3 more goals. The second was probably one of the best paasing moves seen in a while at Ffordd Farrar. The ball was eventually swept into the net by Jiws with a flick. Jiws then scored his hatrick goal (And 250th in the Welsh Premier, a big well done Jiws!!!) Jacobs made it 4-0.
Kendall didn't take too kindly to the comments coming his way so he decided to utilise all of his comedy skills to come up with witty ripostes. Some of his gems included; "Yeah, whatever, I'll be getting £300 at the end of this"; "I'm a non-league International" and "Don't you know the rules you prick". As you can tell from the standard of his repartee he was too busy formulating these pithy classics to bother with the little matter of stopping the ball from going past him.
Maybe there should be a new Mathematical rule: "The comedic effects of the goalkeepers attempts at humour are inversly proportional to their effect". The evidence for this hypothesis (I've studied this empirically) was plentiful today. As Kendall came out with more outbursts it merely led to more coming back toward him. Despite the fact that he thought he was being clever he had let in four goals. That's surely lesson for any aspiring goalkeeper.
After the game a pub-crawl around Bangor and Colwyn Bay engendered much festive spirit.
