Grimsby Institute Performance of the week (47):




landscape_gifhe_less_25.jpgThe most notable result of the week was from the Novartis under
10/11 Little Devils (Grimsby Soccer Club team) beating Breakaways’ 3-2.  In the previous league both Breakaways’ teams
finished 1 and 2 losing only 3 out of 32 games between them.  2 of the losses were against each other which
show the strength of the club.  Little
Devils was not overawed and despite being twice behind they took a late 3-2
lead to win the match.  Unfortunately certain
Breakaway players sporting attitudes left them at this point and, falling out
with themselves their manager withdraw them from the league.  In my humble opinion not the best of
decisions that he could make as the young impressionable players now have an
example that it’s ok to ‘not to honour fixtures.’  Rather than take the issue further the team
resignation has been accepted, badly tarnishing the Breakaways’ club reputation.

Immediatly after posting this article I had a very welcome phone call from Breakaways’ manager Pauul Tice extolling the performance of Little Devils to play futsal as it should be played; and asking that his hasty withdrawal be recinded; which the league is more than happy to oblige.

Credit to Little Devils who fully deserved their great win.

Other challengers for GI performance of week were Kent St
referees Dean Gladwell & John Drew. I watched all Thursday nights Kent
Street matches; there was barely a foul or bad attitude in any of them, which
has to be down to quality refereeing and man management.

From the same nights football I could have chosen a
selection of ‘goal of the week shots’ quality finishing was in every game.

Finally Inbetweeners could have been performance of week, not
because they trounced GSC, but because of the purity of their futsal. Including
4 FC Grimsby players and 1000+ futsal games behind them they gave GSC a master
class in how to play futsal. With 3 games each behind them GSC had no chance
going into the game, they have now seen and experienced how the game can be
played when the best are on their game.