| Report | In the history of great battles,
harsh conditions have often dictated the outcome. From Bastogne to Stalingrad,
freezing arctic weather has often been the major factor to consider. Thus it was on
this freezing Sunday morning when our great leaders, having learned from the folly
of Napoleon and Hitler, refused to meet on the snow covered fields of
Cambridgeshire.
Having woken up to blizzards,
frostbite and polar bears gamboling on the front lawn, it was deemed that this
fixture was too dangerous to play. Players might get chapped hands clearing two
inches of snow off the windscreen. And so the calls went around and every player was
informed. Unfortunately Spartak's one supporter was not informed and she turned up
as per usual. Unhappily she reports it was Spartak's best performance all season.
Half an hour after the match was cancelled the whole
lot melted in about 37 seconds and the most pleasant sunny Sunday afternoon
followed.
Still though the major disappointment
will linger with some of the older Spartak players that they haven't had their once
in four years chance this season. No, not to play in the World Cup, get real, rather
to play on February 29th. Tragically this meant that their planned tactic of not
returning home for the day on the guise of hospitalisation due to a sports injury
was foiled and they had to stay at home all day living in fear of their other half
asking them to get married. |
Second
Division Cup