Ahhhhhh The joys of football, the highs and the lows but sometimes there’s special moments, moments that would leave the opposition in aghast and they usually happen in the cup, it’s does not matter which Cup tbh, there just special moments like when you turn off the game at the 2nd half of extra time as you see the dominating team finally get that goal the’ve been after for over 110 mins only to see the heads of the minnows go down in disbelief as their outstanding defensive line up was broken.
Well just such a game just happened and just such a person switched off his TV as the players took to kicking off again for those last few minutes, if that and texting your cousin to congratule him on a lucky escape, when he texted back with “Was it” and as I switched back over.
Well it wasn’t what I expected that’s for sure and there’s no effing way a fairytale is about to happen, or is it as I see the keeper rising in the penalty box, no the Minnows Keeper, in the oppositions box, yeah the last chance saloon keeper who manages to not only get his head on the ball, but fires it into the back of the net and rush to the empty stadium, and its still one of those magnificent scenes, even without the fans as you know thousands of them will be dreaming of another Cup win, another you ask, why yes, they won the league Cup just this year and now are into penaltys against the unbeatable team of the season and upsteps their penalty specialist, a tall strutting left back, but wait he’s just back from injury and has played 110 minutes, so we got a chance, no, and this keeper, there’s no way he’s letting all 5 of these penalties in after what he’s just done, is he?
And Boom!!! Or should I say not so Boom but buster, geez my son could have kicked it harder and its saved, the 1st penalty, yes the minnows have it, here we go, and for sure the next 3 penaltys go in with precision and there star keeper, probably the player of the season, flounders on all 3, and again their 2nd striker steps up, and as we all know football, you just know when a guy does a standing speed run and dosent move before actually running at it, then continually doing the speed run as he moves is gonna fuck it up, big time.
So upsteps the young kid, to settle it, he’s not even flustered at this point as the’ve missed 2, the left back and their 2nd striker, he places the ball and walks back, calm as the stadium goes silent, runs up and scores, probably what will be his finest moment in football, after all beating the unbeaten at their home ground is something to be proud off, those goals have lasting memories, not only for their fans but for all of Scottish football and gives hope that even being the one sided, green eyed, glaswegian that I am, I can see the joy and benefits of having up and coming future stars both players and managers, after all 1 Cup down and who’s to say their not favorites going into the final, which they are tbh.
Yup, you can take the man out of Glasgow, but ye canny take our teams out of Scotland, that’s a fact.
Long may the ESL die a slow death.