DARKEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF COLOURS

COLOURS 0-9 WHITES.

"Yesterday, June 21st, 2009 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of Colours was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Whites."

(adapted from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation with deliberate changes to names and dates)

Led by the new "Sports Emperor of the OFA" (himself scoring a hat trick), the White army crushed a heavily splintered, disunited and partitioned Colour unit with a salvo of NINE (9) goals suffering at the same time no casualty of its own. White has never scored more than 8 goals against Colours in the 26 year history of the Social Frees. The nine goal margin is the greatest margin in the history of the games and White also recorded their first clean sheet of 2009 in the process.

Surprisingly, Colours did have a number of good players but the results proved a point, that a well coordinated and united team will usually prevail over a team playing with several factions (and leaders) with individual preferences dominating play over strategic positioning. Never has a nation been so divided with a clear line drawn between the inferior players and the better ones. The unfortunate ones were treated as inferior until they felt inferior and in a self-fulfilling prophesy became inferior. Sometimes even a misguided attempt at goal is considered as a "wonderful" pass to an inferior player who seems to have botched the entire move.

However, give credit where credit is due, White played with a vigour and precision never seen (ever!) before in the history of the games. A newly crowned Sports Emperor and his college-aged Prince trading places in goal as if the kingdom belonged to them as the rite of succession was determined by the wounds inflicted on Colours. Then 5 goals later, the dynasty grew with new goal-poachers with the ninth and final goal being scored all the way from the half-way line by a galloping (seemingly tame nowadays) horse who was thought to have lost his speed and stamina. We do however recommend that tests for the possible use of steroids be conducted on the goal scorers........they were not very normal and nearly inhuman.