When you think of epic bouts you think the Thriller in Manilla, the Rumble in the Jungle, and now the Matchday in Patchway can be added to this list of classics.
Beforehand I said I wanted to play their old captain, a guy that I see at the meeting each month. Unfortunately that didn't materialise, but more on this prick later.
They took the first 3 frames with some solid play, showing why they are unbeaten since November, well in pool that is. I'm guessing their box rec stats aren't that great.
Phil backed up his win from last week with another action packed chess match. You know one of those great match ups where you just don't want it to end…this was the opposite of that. A 10 min delay for a total call which was tighter than a prison zoot, but we know Phil feeds off thinking time. Great win, he's back!!! 3-1
They took the next 2 and the win in some more close encounters. The numerate amongst us realise that 5-1 doesn't add to nine, and in more mathematical madness there was actually an unofficial 10th round.
So the first rule of pool club is you don't talk about pool club…but sometimes you have to give the people what they want.
So their old captain was spoiling for a scrap all night, he had already got one of his own team by the scruff of the neck against a wall, let's say he wasn't making good decisions.
As soon as we got there he made an ignorant/borderline racist reference about Craig David, which in the end turned out to be great foreshadowing, since we all know Craig's best work is "Fill me in".
As you can imagine he was running his mouth during his son's game, so after he was given a polite request to continue the discussion outside, he responded with another bad decision, so let's say he was encouraged to sit down, and reflect on his life choices.
He took the encouragement straight on the chin just like Khan did from Canelo. The encouragement caused him to fold like a cheap accordion. You could see the aftermath of the encouragement all over the floor, all over the felt, all over my hoodie. But to be fair, the way he conducts himself, I assume he gets encouraged all the time. If anything I think he should be encouraged more often.
Continuing the homage to pop music, we all know Mary J Blige's best work is "Family affair", so in stepped his Mrs to calm the situation, sorry not calm, I mean pick up the cues and launch them across the boozer at our team in a frenzy the situation, which worked out great for muggins here, who had to spend 5 mins on my ones, trying to find half my cue before I could leave. Awkward…. Well not as awkward as the next meeting will be.
During the pandemonium, we got awarded the last 2 frames by default, every frame counts people. The official final score was 6-3 but in my eyes it was 6-4.
Just in case anyone was curious, we are not welcome back there.
I Fucking love pool night.
NEXT FIXTURE: Home vs Star II 23/4/25
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