Easter Teaser

For the third time in a row, Melchester hit their opponents for six - but for the first time this year also managed not to concede, thanks to Martin Mestanek, the "Baby Poo" - he sticks to a clean sheet.

However, with the easier jobs done, this weekend throws up a fearsome challenge. Saturday sees Melchester take on top team Karlsberg "B", whose impressive record this season can be explained by their tactic of using players from Karlsberg "A" when the going gets tough. Which Karlsberg will turn up, nobody knows, but a strong defensive display will be needed if Rovers are to get anything from the tie.

On to Sunday, when Rovers take on formerly-rubbish-but-now-with-new-good-players-so-we-can't-be-too-blase Palermo, who in the past have clocked up two losses and (most recently) a draw in previous games against Melchester. On recent form, both teams should win.

So will the Easter Bunny bring a basket of points for Melchester, or will they be left with nothing but sticky brown fingers and a queasy tum? Stay tuned to find out.

A picture speaks a thousand words. Which is handy actually...

Last weekend saw Rovers line up against Tottenham Hotspur lookylikes and erstwhile losers-to-Melchester, Last Minute FC. To fully relieve yet another 6-1 victory, take an hour or so to imagine the highs and lows, thrills and spills, and ins and outs which undoubtably took place, whilst using the above image as a guide to the goals and their scorers. Just like being there, isn't it? Who needs Sky+?

Same old same old

Despite another victory, Rovers remain 4th blah blah blah yaddah yaddah yaddah - basically, the reds need to just keep on winning. Tomorrow's game against Corintho Blues holds the promise of another three points, etc.

Gratuitous dodgy pic including typically unsavoury behaviour from Golban. But just whose knee is that?

Job done?

Movin' On Up...

Our heroes lining up for kick off - a sight guaranteed to strike fear into any opposition

Rovers' meeting with Domino turned out to be a walk in the park for the men in red and yeller, leaving this correspondent with little to report. With Ali setting the ball rolling with a run from his own half to score Melchester's first after 7 minutes, Golban grabbing a second a quarter of an hour later and Cyrillo making it three just before half time, this was always going to be a comfortable game for Racey's men, provided they could jump clear of some heavy duty tackles from the opposition.

Golban bonds with new signing Grødem

With another goal just after the break from Cyrillo, and a brace from winter signing Sindre Grødem - Brno's 2nd most famous Norwegian - Rovers cantered to a 6-1 victory with ease.

Through on goal with only the keeper to beat, surely Holland can't miss?

Holland's miss

An upbeat Roy Race was delighted to see his boys finally making up the positions, leapfrogging Domino and The Reds to claim 4th spot. Next up, a meeting with mid-table Last Minute - and hopefully another 3 points.

Happy Days - Here Again!

Aaaaaaaa-gaaaaaaaaaa-doo-doo-doo, push pineappple shake the tree...

Last weekend's double header provided a deluge of goals for Melchester, as almost every one of Racey's men made their mark on the scoresheet.

Friday saw Rovers take on bottom placed FCWC, and with victory almost a certainty, attention turned to Melchester's only remaining non-scorers, Messrs Holland and Mestanek. A long-standing bet between the pair meant that whoever scored first (and therefore, not last), would win ten beers from the other, and so both players were chomping at the bit to hit the (for them) uncharted territory of an opposition penalty box.

Cyrillo started the scoring after just two minutes and a steady stream of goals followed, but apart from Holland being teabagged by a 15 year old and then having a goal disallowed for bullying, at half time neither defender seemed likely to end up in the drink. But just two minutes into the second half, Holland ran onto a throw-in which he blasted home with aplomb to an ecstatic reception from a boisterous Srbska crowd.

Holland's goal and celebration owed a lot to another Paul

Determined not to be upstaged, Mestanek followed with two identical rockets into WC's bottom 90 to ensure that by the end of a record 14-1 victory every Melchester player was now a bona fide goalscorerer.

'Ave eet.

Rovers barely had time to celebrate, sleep, shower and shoeshine before they were back on the pitch against second-bottom Tripoli. And from the start it seemed Melchester were still in party mood as they conceded straight from kick off. But after rolling up of sleeves and throwing off of hairbands, Melchester set about devouring their opponents like a big lass with a pastie, losing count of the score until it was eventually announced on the BSMK website - 10-2.

Despite having played an extra game at the weekend, inexplicably Rovers find themselves still in 6th, and still with two games in hand. Logisticians, theoreticians and mathematicians are still trying to work out how that can be, but in the meantime, the easy games are over, as tomorrow Melchester face fifth placed Domino in a straight fight for position. COME ON YOU RED(and yellow)S!!!