Good morning all. It has been a while since the Blues were heard from. It was three short months ago that WMFC was close to making their first ever GPSL playoff appearance when they were completely obliterated on their home turf by the eventual-runners-up, Indiana and all hope of post-season football floated away into the ether along with the dust from the Borland desert. During the break the team has been recuperating from a fruitful, almost historic, yet physical and body-tolling season. Players that picked up knocks throughout the campaign, such as Stinner and his disgusting sprained ankle and Pcholinski with his immensely swollen vagina, have been resting and preparing themselves for the indoor season that began on October 6th.
The close-season is never bereft of transfer chatter and the 2009 edition followed suit. Blogs, websites, news services, radio stations, Sky Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports World all were busy speculating who would come into and who would leave the squad over the summer. It was a foregone conclusion that Matthew Alan Baguet would be leaving but other than that the Blues weren't expecting any other departures. At the start of the indoor season it looked as though the team was going to be light on numbers with Nickel, Vargo, and Kufen all out due to either pansiness and/or high treason. However, several players from varying points in the clubs fifteen year history made unexpected returns and have been performing well so far.
Steve Gauss returned from Arizona with no money and a beard. His psychological problems seemed to have dissipated but we will reserve judgement on that until midseason. In addition, Matthew Alan, having bought out his lease and returned his bonus from the United States Government, will be moving back to Pittsburgh and will be available to yelp expletives at everyone and cramp up every five seconds at the end of October. Cunt.
Have you ever run into an ex-girlfriend at a bar or something just a few weeks or even days after you broke up? You know that very awkward feeling? Well, that's what Rob Vargo felt on opening night at the RMU Island Sports Center. While warming up for his 'team', the Blues were arriving at the pitch and noticed him and his clearly inferior squad. Needless to say, after one game, Vargo is back between the pipes for West Mifflin.
And finally, the most stunning and unexpected addition to the indoor squad is America's own Ginger Prince, Trevor Kidd. He was found cutting grass and building "50FOOT RETAINING WALLS" in the Clover Crest community where he, Stinner, and Reed reside. While walking his dog one evening, Stinner noticed a fiery blaze atop a grasscutters head. He thought nothing of it at first but as he got closer he recognized that blaze - it was the red hair of the Taz Man himself, Trevor Kidd. A conversation was struck up and eventually the idea of coming out of retirement came up and the rest is history. Even though it was discovered last night on the return trip from the game that the twat used to have a blast in his and Chris Nickel's backyards playing tennis, basketball, and hockey and NEVER FUCKING INVITED those on the east side of the Crest to play, a contract was signed and he was sent directly into the squad. Despite that and his inability to run for more than two consecutive minutes wihtout sucking wind, he has been welcomed back with open arms and already has a goal upon his return (he closed his eyes and stuck a leg out into the path of a Stinner rocket-shot and deflected it in).
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In Week 1, WMFC was handed a 4-1 defeat by South Hills FC. The team stunk and played some truly pathetic football. The lads were out of position, attacking players did not recover on defense, and there were more shots that hit the walls of the bubble behind WMFC's attacking net than grains of sand in the Sahara. Stinner eventually found Pcholinski for WMFC's only goal.
Week 2 saw a very much improved WMFC thoroughly dominate. Their stand-in keeper from Week 1 was injured pretty badly so the squad knew they would have to play better than the week before if they were to have a shot at winning. Outfield players took turns in the net. Stinner had a goal and two assists, Trevor had a goal as did Jordan and WMFC went on to win 7-3.
Week 3 was a rematch between WMFC and South Hills. Just as the two teams sported different looks (both had new keepers) the end result was drastically altered as well. The Blues played well. They kept to their positions and were able to knock the ball around very nicely the entire game. Despite Stinner having five or six (seriously) chances, two of which that could have been scored by a blind turtle, and egregiously missing the net, WMFC managed to put six past the keeper. One goal was a beauty scored by Steve Gauss from about 15 yards out. There was some bad news from the game last night, however. Chris Reed, having fallen onto the ground and causing the Neville Island to split down the middle, thus creating two islands, picked up a knock on his wrist. Reed himself described it, via text message this morning, as a small fracture and he probably won't need a cast and that all his pain is from ligament damage. Cool. He will be good to play next week.
Standings will follow when I get them.
