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My Sunday team played a league game once with 7 players.
It had been a freezing cold week, and the game was in doubt. You were supposed to call a central number at Winchester Council on the morning to get confirmation of any closed facilities. This is in the days before Whatsapp groups, etc, so it was down to the three designated drivers to each call the Council number, and let the people they were collecting know, if the game was off.
I called, and couldn't get through, so I picked up my three passengers and headed off for the ground. Another lad did the same. The final driver, DID get through and was told by the woman fielding the calls, that ALL games were off. So he texted his three passengers and went back to bed.
We got to the ground to find the ref and the opposition all ready to go - the ref's passed it playable. The game was a distance away and its too late to try to round up the others, so we played with 7.
The other (full) team were really not great, and remarkably we were 2-1 up at half-time, but ended up losing 3-2 with a really late winner.
No, indeed.
