15 June, 2003 : Star
Players Turn (Slowly) On Coach Grahamio
With Cruz Azul's unbeaten 5 match opening well behind them,
'star' players rail against coach's tacticos. The sometimes
fractious relationship between Cruz Azul's experienced players
and Scotch Egg Beating coach Georgio Grahamio has deteriorated
further following three high scoring matches. This
Sunday, playing one of the few teams below them in the Hillsboro
OR league, Grahamio was confident that his team could forge a
fourth 0-0 draw for the season.
Things went pear shaped when the recently unearthed striker
Adomaydis, formerly known as 'The Ancient Briton' accidentally
deflected
a ball off his head into the path of ruthless strike partner
Yuri-'No Paso'-Yuri, who scored with a sweet volley. The opposition
promptly equalised. Furious coach Grahamio hauled off Adomaydis
at half-time blaming him for starting the scoring spree, refusing
to acknowledge the catalogue of glaring misses that
Adomaydis had skillfully muffed in order to
keep the score down.
The infuriated Ancient Briton responded by
throwing down his Blue Banana (more on this next week) and walked
out
of the
ground
saying to the swarming press only that "had I known I'd be pulled
off again i wouldn't have stopped drinking after eight pints."
Things got worse, without their star striker Cruz went on to
win 7-1, completely distorting their goal difference.
Meanwhile, club officials deny new stories linking Cruz
Azul and Manchester Corp. in a swap deal involving Victoria
Beckham, an unnamed former pop star, and their unsettled Ancient
Briton.