The Passion and The Glory

Once or twice in each of our lives a sequence of events may occur that defy any rational explanation - the inexplicable rise to prominence and widespread adulation for whichever reality tv nonentity happens to be pissing me off right now for instance...

Anyhoo, just such a strange and unnerving event occured on Monday evening at the Hamlet.

How else can one describe the surreality of trudging off the pitch with heads low and sphincters dilated after a 6-2 rogering only to find that, due to some Macchiavelian statecraft by our glorious in-house lobbyist no doubt, combined with the innate decency of dear, dear Rog, we had contrived to jump from third to second and... WON A TROPHY!!!!!!!!

And here it is (isn't he purrrty...)

Match Report - 21st January 2008

A welcome return to form after the previous week's aberration. We might have played in the dark, but it was nothing compared to the darkness in the hearts of poor Dead Sheep.

Constant pressure from the midfield and forwards saw the Sheep rarely making it out of their own half. When they did, our doughty defence and keeper handled all with aplomb.

A fine performance by all - if barely needing to engage third gear - was capped by a great volleyed goal by Sam. (how i'd like a bit of that... goals, not Sam of course...;-)

4-0
Mm, nice.

Match Report 7th January 2008

Possibly one of the best team performances in a very long time. DPC went in at half time one nil down. The match finished with DPC winning 4 - 1 against one of the better sides in the league. The whole team played to its full potential. Six games played. 13 points. Second place. And fun.

Goal of 2007 competition - Results in!

It will come as no surprise to those of us that were privileged enough to have witnessed this act of sheer sublimity first-hand, but the Goal of the Year competition has been won by none other than Kevin 'Exocet' Craig for his netbuster against RGJ.



Our judges were left in no doubt that La Craig's sublime blend of pace and precision deserved the highest of accolades and were delighted to to award him the Prix de la Footix for his exuberant display.



To honour this 'but magnifique' DPC have utilised the latest in cgi/vr technology to reconstruct, in the highest detail, the moment of glory below (you know, you can almost taste the astroturf...)

Monday 5th November 2007

Burt Reynolds, generally a team of high quality and effectively already promoted posed too much of an opposition for DPC although it was a tight game of high quality football and the 3 - 1 scoreline against Dulwich suggests more of a gap than there actually was.

Burt Reynolds' first goal was their best, a well worked passing move which left Dulwich following the man and with two defenders on the penulitmate man who then passed to a vacant forward who then scored with a good shot.

It was nip and tuck thereafter. Dulwich had a lot of chances, really did and ought to have scored more. Various of the midfield/ forwards had very good dames with great passing moves and could have scored, Marco, Pete, Steve amongst them. The defending for the most part was tight and well organised.

Nathan, the young Burt Reynolds forward sucked Kevin (200m time of 30 seconds plus....probably) into the Burt's half and a long clearance out made it a one on one sprinting match in which ahem, there was only going to be one winner.

The match was then sealed when Burts beat Andy in goal with a long range shot.

A good game, played in a great spirit.

Burt Reynolds 3
Dulwich Park Casuals 1

DPC
Andrew Dunn
David Madden
Samir Mabruk
Martin Donat
Steve Wallage
Marco Savini
Mike Gonzales
Pete Diapre
Kevin Craig

Monday October 29th 2007

Dulwich win 6 - 0 against a flagging dead sheep.
8 games played, 13 points in the bag - 4 wins (1 walk over) 1 draw and three defeats. The table, with us in a secure but distant third doth not lie. Overall we are enjoying this season. Trite truisms aside, that's the point. Scorers Mikael, Marco, Martin, Kevin x 2, plus Steve? can't remember.

Onwards.

Next Week - Redux

Another search of the DPC archives has revealed the an edition of "Next Week", the infamous fanzine of the Casuals.
If you would like to remember some of our glory days in PDF format. Click on the picture to the right, alternatively click here.

So far only one issue has been put in PDF format, there are plans to do the rest. But note I'm missing the cover, if you have a copy of the cover could you send me a scan of it, and the collectable poster inside. Ta.