it was off to the beer bus saturday night where i found a small group of ankaragucu kankas - sir eski, connect, philly, kaleci - as well as gencler supporter flying dutchman, who were all recovering from ankaragucu's devastating loss.
hopes weren't that high but the beer was cold and the pub started to fill up with gencler fans such as spine and a whole heap of alkaralar people for a game of two very distinctive halves.
galatasaray 1 - 0 genclerbirligi
first half.... crap. we could easily have been down 3-0 with our defence in tatters. galatasarary actually had two goals disallowed. one for handball and the other for offside. the least said about the half the better. the only good thing was that it ended 0 - 0.
second half... much better. this should have gone at least 2-0 but for some crappy shooting from kahe and a bit of bad luck.
kahe twice found himself unmarked with the goal in front of him but both times sent the ball wide. orhan later had a great header which hit the post. the game was all gencler when galatasaray made their break in the 77th minute with keita sending in a short cross to kewell who merely had to tap it in, much to the annoyance of gencler coach thomas doll who seemed to be dressed up like darth vader, or possibly a michelin man.
that was that. a bit depressive but we played nicely in the second half. now for the winter break and a month of weekends in which we curl up and freeze. happy christmas everyone.
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