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Could this Be The Year? Reports 2002-03
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2005-06: When badgers learn to fly
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Keep rollin, rollin, rollin
 | The nights are drawing in. George expects. Is it really two months since the Bolz? Street feel the blood start to beat a little faster in their veins as the countdown to that magic time of year begins.
Yes, Street fans, it's almost August bank holiday. What will you do with yours?
While you slaver with gonad-clenching anticipation over your barbie or trip to B&Q, our hooped uber-dudes have been training, toning, tanning, and twatting their way to full fitness, ready for what promises to be a season full of football.
Despite rumours to the contrary, I can exclusively reveal that the boys in green and white will once more be taking all that the RT Harris can throw at them, with a smile on their face and a cheeky glint in their eye.
They are well into a tough pre-season campaign, with friendlies against Oxfam and North Oxford resulting in 6-2 and 1-0 victories respectively. However, as we all know results mean nothing in friendlies, and it was the manner of the games that so warmed the cockles of an old man in the dugout's heart.
Fair play, good humour, and backs-to-the-wall, never-say-never-again, the-spy-who-loved-me style commitment, allied to some great individual performances.
Big shouts for Danny who has added an awesome goal kicking ability to his repertoire of manly goal-thwarting over the summer; wee Dan who never stops running at defenders and rules training sessions with an iron hamstring, nu-Craig who made a pleasing debut vs North, the reformed Right Said Fred who are anything but dippy, and the awe-inspiring Farmer Scarfe, who at 807 years old continues to tease defences, claiming Cowley Marsh was "all fields when I were a lad".
The Street are back. Expect new faces, more talking, and more rubbish on the website. Most of all, expect George. |
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You Will Obey You Will Obey You Will Obey You Will Obey You W...
 | "....But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep...."
Measure for measure, the dirty ole Ba'rd might well have been describing the proud men who run the RT Harris and the Oxfordshire Football Association. According to my sources, Street's latest friendly against Witney Royals very nearly scuppered by various officials from these two esteemed bodies.
It seems an outstanding fine from last season's 'Battle of Crescent Road' (when our mighty boys failed to control their witty and flamboyant players and supporters so utterly that three of their number were assaulted) meant that the Street were not permitted to play any friendlies whatsoever under any circumstances at all full stop. Indeed, the hooped wunderkinds were not even to be allowed the solace of a comforting pint in the Swan, as they were also to be prohibited from meeting on a social basis.
Rules are of course rules, but quite how the faceless bureaucrat fun-spoilers intended to enforce their edicts remains unclear, as at the eleventh hour they withdrew their threat to the Royals' fixture "as long as none of you gets booked or sent off".
So the Street took the field with shirts symbolically turned inside out, and there ensued a pleasant 4-0 thrashing at the hands of W&DFA's Finest, with an unfamiliar badgers line-up taking time to settle but showing signs of knowing each others' names by the final whistle. No bookings, nary a foul indeed, and what a friendly bunch the Royals were.
A loss on the field then, but another small victory over the dark side for those indefatigable Street free men.
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