Best Goal On The Road To Wembley

Nature at its best

Dutch Lions Christmas Night Out 2006

Started at Yates’s Harrow & Ended three days later in Watford. Pictures of the night can be seen by clicking on the link below:

Cheers Minty for the lift home. It was a good crack. What happened to Biggles at half time? How many birds did Timid pull? When we going back?

Dutch Lions 1-4 St Andrews Youth

Top Vs Bottom today and after our Christmas Party we were feeling optimistic. We started the game with a firm plan.  The first half remained tight with chances being wasted at each end. With the lions playing offside leaving one St Andrews Striker a yard offside, the ref decided to wave on after the lino indicated the clear infringment. One nil to St Andrews into half time. With a depleted squad Taela went right back with Arron keeping goal. Both had solid games. You could tell Taela was enjoying himself. A mixture of Defensive mistakes and not enough pressure gave St Andrews opportunity to build on their lead. 4 nil down and we are finally awarded something. A free kick off centre 20 yds out the Skipper Pedro ask his Bro if he is gonna score, Paulos response was short and sweet, just like the man. Yes Bruv. Paulo hit this ball with laser guided accuracy right into the top right hand corner. As soon as it left his foot it was in.  No keeper was gonna save that. St Andrews were able to bring a bunch of clowns up front for the last ten and fair play, I would like to be in thier position. In thier Manager they have a nice guy, I wish them well and hope they can win the league now.  No games until the new year so lay off the mince pies and recharge those batterys, 2007 is a new start for the Lions.

Peace & Merryment

MATCH REPORT Gwalia 3-0 Dutch Lions

An own goal followed by a a dubious second was enough to take Gwalia into the second half 2-0 up. The Lions swapped defence for attack in an attempt to win back some precious goals but our attacking was in vane with Andy the Gwalia Manager in goal having made some crucial interceptions with his size 13’s. Jabor forced a save in the second half and Grant tried tirelessly to make something happen. Paulo failed to get the kind of service he needed to really make an impact. Gwalia hit us on the break throught out the second half and got a third after some neat interchanging on the far side.

Seeing Gwalia’s keeper wrestle his own centreback to the floor in an attempt to “Control the situation” was comical but to be fair it did take the spotlight off a few of his own players in a game the ref didn’t have a grip on. Gwalia have two lads up front who were genuine, good lads, Look forward to seeing you fella’s again.

Overall a frustrating day in the office for the boys especially after beating this side last week in the Cup.  Next week league Leaders at the fairground.

League Update

BlarneyStone Celtic have been suspended for non-payment of fees, We now play Gwalia (Again) this coming Sunday at thier ground. We meet at 9:30am on Sunday at the John Lyon Pub. See you then team. Please also keep the 15th of December free for our Christmas night out starting at the Shed and moving onto later a larger shed a good bus ride ride away. Happy Dayz.

MATCH REPORT Dutch Lions 2-0 Gwalia

MATCH REPORT Dutch Lions 2-0 Gwalia

Reg Ellis Cup Round 1

The lions began the first half of this cup tie with the sun and the wind behind them.  Despite missing a few regulars and playing in a new 4-4-1-1 formation, it was the lions who started the stronger.   With a muddy pitch it was difficult to play our usual passing game, but we forged out a few good chances, with Julian and Grant having decent shots. Pedro came close with a free kick that flashed just past the post. It was a strong first half performance which saw the lions dominate possession and restrict Gwalia to only a couple of chances, however the score remained 0-0.

The second half started with the wind against us and Gwalia came back strongly with the Lions struggling to get out of their own half.   Just as the Lions were starting to regain the upper hand some Gwalia pressure in the box lead to two penalty appeals.  The first was waved away but minutes later the ball was fired against Grant’s hand with no chance of him getting out of the way, the referee pointed to the spot.  The Gwalia player stepped up only to hit the post and see the ball go wide.  The Lions haven’t had much luck so far this season, but this appeared to spur us on.  From then on the Lions had all the pressure and appeared to have too much pace for Gwalia’s defence to handle.   The breakthrough came with Pedro winning the ball in midfield and playing it to Paulo, who slotted it through for Ahmed. Ahmed stayed composed and shot to the keepers left and into the back of the net to make it 1-0 to the Lions. As the game progressed every Lion played his heart out and the defence remained solid.   The Lions made more chances with the mud appearing to be the biggest obstacle. Meanwhile Gwalia pushing forward were loosing their shape and their ‘impartial’ linesman was becoming even more irate. With 10 minutes remaining Macca was played through by Paulo. Gwalia’s keeper rushed out, Macca took it round him and managed to finish from a tight angle to seal the victory.

The Lions played with more grit and determination today and even managed to keep a clean sheet! Well done guys, lets now use this to push on in the league with more of the same.

Oli