“Fumbbl Cup Round 1

Jasper Clock was one lucky guy. Having recently graduated from the College of Referee's Advanced Practice (CRAP) he was about to officiate in his first Bloodbowl match. What made it so fortunate was that it just happened to be a first round fixture of the 'Big One' - the Fumbbl Cup!

With a spring in his step he walked into the impressive, towering building that was the headquarters for the referee's guild. Recently re-painted in a lush brown and with the age old placard over the entrance that filled every referee's heart with a deep sense of pride 'SOCIETY of HONOURABLE INITIATED TIMEKEEPERS ELECT (SHITE)'. Arriving at his office he immediately spied the letter he had been expecting - written in pristine flowing handwriting the envelop simply read: Fummbl Cup Round One. Jasper (or 'Lucky' as he was known to his friends) quickly opened the letter with his letter knife and read: Feministas (Amazon) v Darkland Doombringers (Chaos) 21:00 Sunday 25th October. Lucky swallowed hard. He had been promised the all Halfling fixture...

The evening of the big game arrived and Lucky was feeling anxious. The crowd were roaring in the stands and the cheerleaders had just finished doing their thing. The coin was tossed and the Feministas decided to receive. The two teams set up and everything seemed to be in order so Lucky blew the whistle.

Vroom-vroom...what the ****??! Someone had sneaked a chainsaw onto the pitch!! How did he miss that?? And then all hell broke loose! There was a massive melee in the centre of the pitch in which both teams seemed to be armed - was that a halberd or a legitimate claw mutation? Someone was getting kicked illegally on the ground but Lucky had no idea by whom. And all the while the chainsaw buzzed and the crowd roared. Two players were dead already! The Feministas had made a break down the right flank but then the Chaos captain Baldur the Doombringer himself came charging across and hammered the ball carrier to the ground. She didn't get up. The ball bounced into the crowd and got hurled back in only for Baldur to catch it.

Crack!! BOOM!!!! Out of nowhere came a mighty explosion. Half the chaos team were taken out and Baldur was nowhere to be seen. Amid the smoke and charcoaled ground one of the amazon scooped up the ball and dodged past the last defender. Lucky couldn't believe what he had just seen but at last he finally had something he could do - blowing his whistle he signalled the touchdown. 1-0 to the Feministas! Glancing across he saw Helmut Wulf and his chainsaw being manhandled off the pitch by a team of half-a-dozen assistant referees.

Lucky checked his watch - just enough time for the restart before half time. The two teams set up and Lucky blew his whistle, although whether the Doombringers had waited for him he wasn't sure. What happened next Lucky couldn't properly understand. All he knew was that with the time left on the clock no beastman alive could run in and score from the half way line - what he also knew was that just before his clock ticked down one of them had blitzed past the defensive line and scored! Half time 1-1.

Half time passed in something of a haze and Lucky walked back out onto the pitch to jeers and boos from both sets of fans. It seemed both were angered by the numerous infringements he had failed to stop. Just as the players entered from the tunnel some fans from both sides came running onto the pitch straight at Lucky. He dodged the first fist - or was it a hoof? (Its owner looked more like a goat than a man.) but the second, from a deadly looking warrior-woman, contained a wickedly sharp wooden spike. Lucky looked down and saw his guts spilling onto the floor. His final thought as the mob decended on him was "Oh shit - they're eating me." And so ended Jasper 'Lucky' Clock's refereeing career.

In the game itself the Feministas stole the ball from the Doomlords early in the second half only to get swarmed by them, and as the replacement official was to scared to prevent it, the beastmen repeatedly fouled the amazons before walking in the winning touchdown. Final Score 2-1 to the Darkland Doomlords.

*Great game and super job on the U-Tube highlights real - awesome!





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