Ben's Stag Do (Part Four - Sport)

Being healthy young males, we worked off our delightful breakfast with a mixture of professional sports. We played Sack Hackey - a game similar to hackey sacks but requiring less skill, cricket (not depicted), and football (shirts v skins - skins ending up complete losers).

We also bought some food and lots of drink, which Steve carefully displays.

Work football

Despite no-one being able to count score after about two goals, the company football match was a complete success.
Highlights included John 'flying' Falcon being cynically felled in a 'premises sandwich', going to ground like 'an old lady in the snow' (Standley-ism) and pretending to bleed.
Not to be outdone in the 'serious injury' department, Shane 'octopus' Wall, named so thanks to his ability to grow extra limbs on the football field, blocked a powerful David Spencer shot with his groin.
Andy 'terrier' Peacock, a contender for man of the match, tried to go one better by carefully removing all the skin from his big toes every time he moved down the flanks.
The Falcon also proved his ability to take things too seriously by arriving with a brand new pair of shoes on, something that really impressed David Spencer.
Alex Perkins kept swapping teams, Frank Diabour spent most of the night fluctuating between intricate close ball control and unashamed shirt pulling.
Mike 'onion bag' Wood was (possibly) top scorer and wore a fetching orange shirt.
Richard Sprenger missed an open goal from about 4 yards when it would have been easier to score, while Chris Moore admitted he didn't score at all.
Jon Fanti seemed incapable of kicking the ball below head height (useful when you consider the goals were about three foot high), and everyone was spurred on by the prospect of a £10 gift voucher, especially David Standley, whose main ambition in life is to win one.
All in all it was a 'bloody good laugh' (Perkins, 2005), the game was played in 'high spirit' (ibid) and all the lads 'played well on a hard wet pitch' (ibid).
'Same time next week?' (...ibid).
Unlikely.