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The reputation of the football team who were as difficult to break down as
the gates to the Bank of England and who recently won the Champion's Cup,
took a further knock recently when Dial-a-Cab, said to be the best team in
the City Lunchtime 5-a-side League, went to pieces during what looked like
being their second consecutive drubbing. At 5-1 down against middle-of-the-table Jago - a team we had a 100% record against last season - DaC were refused a blatant penalty decision by a rather weak official. Immediately, the DaC players surrounded the ref and within the melee, Captain Lee Morland was shown the red card for "unbecoming conduct." Then Paul Richards jumped in to speak up for his captain and he too was shown the red card. DaC were now down to three players - Joe Brazil (K16), Warren Barbieri (K19) and Paul Roma (G70). At a signal from Lee Morland, the three walked off the pitch leaving a stunned looking Jago team together with an equally stunned referee! "No referee is perfect," DaC captain Lee Morland told Call Sign, "but this is the third time this season that we have had this guy and he has never been better than hopeless! It may be a bit of fun for him, but we take our football seriously." Both Lee Morland and Paul Richards now face automatic |
NEAR RIOT AS DAC
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 Lee Morland in a sandwich, appealing to the ref and ready to boil... three match bans, while the rest of the team may well face similar or
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DaC's super scorer, Trevor Smith (V78), wasn't playing in the match, but
explained to Call Sign that he often acts as a buffer for Lee. "Lee has a temper on the pitch, but controlled, it works in our favour as a hard but fair form of aggression. When I'm playing and see him about to boil over, I seem to have this way of calming him down, but I wasn't in the team this time and it just blew up. But don't you worry, we'll be back..." Just six weeks ago, DaC were at the top of the league when holidays disrupted our small but successful squad. Then we played the mid-table team of The Zeds. At half time, we went in leading by 3 - 0, but in the second half and for no apparent reason, the previously undefeated DaC just crumbled and we held on for a four-all draw. With our confidence battered, the next match against Willis saw DaC put in our worst-ever performance resulting in a 9 - 4 thrashing. That has now been followed by almost a riot against another team we should have beaten easily. What's gone wrong with the Dial-a-Cab football team? The last word came from Lee Morland... "At the moment, even Mountview could beat us! But have no doubt, we'll be back at the top of the league. But it won't be with me..." |
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