Rambananas

This blog likes a good old fashioned double entendre as much as the next man, although a mildly diverting sports blog does not offer many opportunities to slip one in. Indeed, I was pleased to see that the expression "fnarr fnarr" has, according to Wikipedia, recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, even though I thought the Dictionary was for words, rather than phrases, and I last read Viz a good few years ago, when the comic was new, and I was in the young adult / overgrown teenager age group at which it is aimed. Finbarr Saunders seems alive and well in Ramsbottom.

Whilst, like many clubs these days, Ramsbottom United's supporters had an ultras flag, they did not seem to have any ultras attending it.

Over the last couple of months, we have made a bit of a habit of taking unexpected points off teams looking at finishing in the playoff positions. This game was another, with Prescot scoring from Karl Bergqvist and Jack Webb. I managed to get a full sequence of pictures leading up to the second goal.

Jack Webb sends goalkeeper Grant Shenton the wrong way...

...he then avoids Mark Ayers ...

... gets clear (the defender accidentally collided with the goalkeeper at this point, he needed some treatment on the field and a bag of ice from the bar at half time) ...

... steadies for a shot ...

... and puts it away before Ramsbottom's Jordan Hulme can get to him.

This raised the question of which picture to send in to the Merseymart. My choice would have been the second one, when Jack has decisively beaten the keeper, but before the keeper has (unseen by Jack) been clattered by his own defender. However, a quick enlargement will illustrate the deficiencies of this picture, the light was beginning to fade, so it is rather grainy. I therefore went for the final photo (which they used), cropping it with just Jack and the goalkeeper.

The rest of the pictures from the game can be seen here.