“What a tremendous game!

And what a tremendous performance from Bokonon Reborn, full of vigour, determination and a never-say-die attitude.

Receiving in the first half, Bokonon were quick to get the ball to new-signing Stucley "Slanty" Detmold deep in the dwarf half. As the dwarves stubby legs could only carry them so far, Stucley was able to eat up time. Could Frutos Bajos reply before half-time? With Bokonon men retiring from the pitch at a steady pace it looked ominous, but some tenacious blocking meant the first half ended 1-0.

Now came the worrying part. The second half started 9 vs 11, and the odds got worse as the game progressed. Even though the ingenious Bokonon fans had kidnapped the ref during half-time, those stoopid little dwarves would not fall over (low centre of gravity, you see?) so no-one could get a crafty boot in. Unfortunately the dwarves were far more capable of putting the hurt on. With threee turns left, only 5 Bokonon players were left on the pitch facing the full compliment of 11 dwarves. A desperate blitz had left the ball on the ground, but with so many short, beardy types around, the equalizer was certain.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Hero Stucley Detmold legged it over a quarter of the pitch. Dredging up every last ounce of speed, he pushed himself that extra yard and snatched the ball away from the feet of some angry dwarves and dodged back out of reach. And then he threw it as far as he could. Back to the halfway line and out of the reach of any of the little buggers. There was no way they could reach it in time and score.

Of course, dwarves are vindictive little bastards and promptly gang-fouled poor Saffy in retaliation, but not even eight of the stunty gits surrounding her could do anything more than stun her.

VICTORY!!!

(It should be pointed out that Laendri was a top coach and fun to banter with - I'll give you a rematch any time if you fancy trying to break your human hoodoo)”