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Handbags shown at over 45s match
It’s great to see that the Pembrokeshire Over 45s are continuing to fly the Pembrokeshire Football flag with distinction across South Wales – and it is interesting to see that there is still a competitive spirit in games.
They recently took on old rivals Taffs Well, the side from just outside Cardiff including several former professionals like Cohen Griffiths, and some ex-semi pros as well. There was one moment where a feisty tackle evoked a response and resulted in a few handbags being shown after a Pembrokeshire player was called a fat b*****d by his opponent! I’m reliably informed that it wasn’t the noun he objected to but the adjective, since he has always prided himself in keeping fit playing football and squash.
We wouldn’t dream of naming the slim-looking gentleman involved but it was nice to see that real old-timers like Gary Stephens and Micky Algieri were the peace-makers as they shook their heads in disbelief at the antics of some of the opposition!
Nice tan Gareth!
Gareth Edwards is a very good rugby player in the second row with Tenby United and when he turned up at Bierspool for the Seasiders’ local derby against Pembroke Dock Quins his team mates were very impressed by his new tan. They asked him where he had been since their last match. Tenerife? Mexico? Las Vegas. It was then that our Gareth had to admit that he had tried a fake tan in the midweek so the result was plain for all to see. And were his colleagues still so impressed when they gleaned that information? Not a bit of it – and we daren’t tell you what they called him on a family-orientated web-site like this. But we will show you a picture of Gareth with his fresh fake tan – and my wife thought he looked rather nice!
Missed penalties
Going back to the Over 45s for a moment, there was another interesting moment when Pembrokeshire over 45s were awarded a penalty and up stepped former top player Jeremy Morris to take it. One would normally expect Jeremy, who played for Pembroke Borough and Haverfordwest County, to slot the spot-kick with his typical panache but he missed, although he was in outstanding form during the game. It left striker Bernie Armstrong convinced that he would have found the net but he was reminded on the way home that in a recent penalty shoot-out with PembrokeshireSport.co.uk’s old fogey Bill Carne he lost! That happened at Goodwick prior to a match where Carl Woodhouse lost 3-2 to Bill but beat Bernie 3-1 – and still hasn’t received the £5 wager between the two. Never mind, Carl, I’m sure Bernie will cough up some time!
Falling in a big hole
And the last word on that Over 45s match comes after our great pal Bernie Armstrong, one of the nicest characters in local sport, went to ground after a nudge that saw him produce a quite spectacular dive for the penalty. The referee must have been impressed because he immediately pointed to the spot, despite an opposing players saying that Bernie had fallen in a hole. One comment in the bar afterwards from a colleague of Bernie’s, who must remain anonymous but has Italian blood coursing through his veins, was,
“It must have been a big hole!”
which evinced a chuckle from everyone, including Bernardo – who has served the over 45s and football in general so well over many years!
Wrong zapper
In a conversation at the Bridge Meadow Stadium recently where the topic turned the daftest thing those involved had done there was no doubt that the hands-down winner was Derek Roberts, the manager of the Bluebirds’ Pembrokeshire League. He also came second with the saga of when he was painting the house and tripped over, spilling the paint into the pond so that he had blue-coloured goldfish but was runaway winner with the tale of how he once went out with some of the Merlins Bridge boys and when Dave Laugharne needed a taxi home Derek, being the gentleman that he is, offered to phone for one on his mobile phone. But they all collapsed with laughter when Derek pulled from his smart coat pocket not his mobile phone but – wait for it – the TV remote control! It was still just as funny when Derek retold it to us at the Bridge Meadow and he’s a tonic if you feel a little cheesed off because he is a comedian in his own right
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