A long awaited return to league business beckoned for VAFC and an official debut for the new strips. A trip to Dunbar is always approached with a certain measure of trepidation, how do we get out there? How on earth do I rouse a squad of players to go straight from work to sunny Dunny? [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Match Reports’
June 24, 2009
Match Report vs Dunbar FC 23/6/2009
After Teuchters 2-0 victory over Sykes FC on Monday VAFC were left with plenty work to do to reclaim the summit of the Owen Coyle Super League sponsored by Joseph Perrier Champagne.
June 7, 2009
Diego Does The Damage 4/6/2009
With the shadow of an 8-1 defeat looming large like the morning after a gallon of Jaipur we required some serious firepower to overcome such a nonsense result and get our league campaign underway. I received an email a couple of weeks ago after my gumtree campaign looking for teams for our league from a [...]
June 1, 2009
Match Report vs Blackhall St Columbas 28/5/2009
Following another successful Gumtree campaign I managed to arrange a fixture against Blackhall St Columbas, a team set to play in next season’s Church Leagues. This match eventually turned out to be our final farewell to Fisherrow for the 2008/2009 season due to the usual nonsense behaviour from the council closing down the pitches for [...]
May 13, 2009
Miracle of Meadowmill Marred by Muppet 13/5/2009
After having to deal with large volumes of jigger pokery trying to tie down a fixture against Wester Hailes Baptist Church FC I assumed that having finally sorted a date that would be the end of any shenanigans.
March 31, 2009
Match Report vs Wester Hailes Baptist Church FC 30/3/2009
One of the only teams to respond to my gumtree advert with an astonishingly similar history to ourselves, Wester Hailes Baptist Church made the trek out to Fisherrow to be welcomed with a brilliant and balmy East Lothian night. A totally unknown side to anybody they only started up at the end of 2008 and [...]
March 25, 2009
Match Reaction vs Haddington Athletic FC Juniors 24/3/2009
The recipe for an entertaining football match would presumably consist of all the factors present last night.
Take 1 promising team of underdogs, mix with one fine established team in a well lit grassy surfaced sprinkled with a salty gale and bake for 90 minutes.
March 23, 2009
Match Report vs Teuchters FC 22/3/2009
With the fixtures drying up and a fairly fruitless search for new opposition I turned to the ever faithful Richie from Teuchters if they would fancy a match. Despite the fact their previous three games had been against us they kindly obliged to keep us in games. The games close proximity to our showpiece fixture [...]
March 4, 2009
Match Report vs 1811 Witchery FC 3/3/2009
With two different groups to prove a point to we were massively fired up for the big rematch we had all been waiting for. Primarily we were out to settle the score from the last match where we were drubbed 8-0 on the astroturf at St Daves. Secondly after some intense and seething criticism from [...]
February 18, 2009
Match Report vs Musselburgh Baptist FC (AKA The God Squad) 17/2/2009
After the news that pitches were unplayable for Monday the 16th and were extremely doubtful for the Wednesday I was somewhat concerned that by 4pm yesterday I hadn’t been told the game was off. Despite all this doubt we went ahead, probably due to the peculiar good weather we were gifted with. The pitch was [...]
