No charity for Friars as Balaga hit em for 9

After the Paddy's day break Tongo were back in action against bottom of the table side Frairs Walk Celtic. No slip up's for the cucumbers was the thoughts before the match and the 3 points should be gettable. Whifty was out due to work duties but other than that it was a full team...

1-0 FC Balaga Tongo
Balaga started brightly with JD Webz, Tristan and Parker commanding the Celtic back line, and it wasn't long before Tongo took a deserved lead through Tristan, who got the ball somewhere on the right, turned and scored..... i think!

2-0 FC Balaga Tongo
1 became 2 as once more Tristan collected the ball out the right and hit a low hard shot pas the keeper. Webz was lurking on the Frairs goal line and tapped it to guarantee the goal and take his tally to 11 for the season.

3-0 FC Balaga Tongo
JD got his first off the evening from a neatly taken volley with his right which the keeper swan dived at but missed. Soon afterwards Damo came to collect a ball in the box and got clattered into the back for some Frairs fella. The keeper was out for a few minutes but luckly for Balaga made a full recovery and was fit to play the rest of the match. The knock in the back did nothing to hinder his kick outs though as he was continuously finding his targets in midfield which was setting up plenty of chances for the Togolese attack.

4-0 FC Balaga Tongo
Balaga relaxed a bit after the third goal and both Tom and Kev started to make forward runs. Parker was doing a great job of dropping into the back line for cover whenever they did. On this particular occasion it was Kev's turn to venture up front. Webz collected the ball from a JD throw in, and nutmegged some feen to Kev. The Balaga defenders first touch was questionable, his second also questioned by Webz after the game, but I maintain it was pure class! He pushed the ball out to the right with a defender closing him down, fainted to shot with his left which burnt the Celtic defender and unleashed an unstoppable right footed into the Frairs net. The word "unstoppable" is used lighty here though as it wasn't the strongest of shots but the keepers calamity swan dive over the ball made it look half deacent!

5-0 FC Balaga Tongo
There was time for one more before the break, this time from star front man Phil O'D. Parker who was having a fine game, put phil free down the right. The big man let it run passed his Henry styleeeeeeee and smashed it into the bottom left across the goal! A one sided first half was called to an end with the only real Frairs effort coming from a free kick they rattled the crossbar with.

At the half time break Balaga found it hard to concentrate on tactics and instead commented on the lookers playing on pitch 3 as Plain White T's were getting mangled by Raiders in the ladies match. Evertually they got their heads back into the Tongo match and went out for the second half...

6-0 FC Balaga Tongo
The second half kicked off and soon enough put another score on the board. JD getting his second of the game from a corner from Phil.

7-0 FC Balaga Tongo
JD hat-trick!!! A super kick out from Damo landed at Tristans feet who found Phil one on one with the keeper. The striker unselfishly squared it to JD who had an empty goal to tap into.

8-0 FC Balaga Tongo
Goal numero eighto came from another corner. Phil probably took it. Webz describes it - "Corner, Scramble, ball in air, four yard volley, Goal". Niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

9-0 FC Balaga Tongo
The final icing on the cake came from Phil once more. Webz once more describes it - ""Phil runs around 6 million feens (maybe 2 or 3) trys to pass it to duggan at the back post but the keeper intercepts and I smash it through the empty net. It proceeds to hit an orphan in the face and kills him!*".

*No orphans were killed during the playing of this match...

With all the goals described its time to mention that this was a momentous game for FC Balaga Tongo.... For about 10 seasons, 4 years or so they had never, NEVER managed a clean sheet. Big up the 3 bai's in defence, Damo, Tom, and Kev who have battled so long for that first 0, but none of it would have been achievable without the great work from the midfield and attack who always tracked back, a thank you must also go to the players parents for conceiving the team and Paul Scott who mangled Togo and Congo together to give FC Balaga Tongo its birth!

With douglas beating Abtran 12-2 and Ma Duleas kicking QEF's ass 9-1 the top couldn't be closer....