Tuesday 27th May

Another early morning pool session @ 8.30 then the afternoon off and finally the last game of the tour. We were supposedly playing a team of expats. We expected a team of old, fat Sunday league footballers. What we got was a team of semi professionals and a good 6-0 drubbing. We were again entertained after the game and experienced the best fines system ever. Basically the opponents captains decides who deserves a fine, whether it be for poor play, good play or any other reason they can think of. The fine recipient has to down an ice cold pint of lager in one. I can think of worse fines.

Final tour stats were played 4, lost 4, scored 2 and conceded 13. On the face of it that's not good, but I think every player has gained an awful lot from the tour and improved through it. In reality we had a makeshift team (I mean I was playing), the opposition got progressively better and we tired after playing 4 games in 11 days. I've played 7 games of football in the last 2 years and 4 of those are in the past fortnight.