In this day and age, with Reality TV ruling the airwaves, Twitter and Facebook blowing up our phones and news outlets and the wider blogesphere providing instant access to information, it has become necessary to coin a new phrase or two, even if it only makes it to the Urban Dictionary. I present to you one such phrase....
Gavin Hall, John Hickey and Leo O'Connor for some reason always come to mind when I sit down to write a match report. Not so much their performances, but how to feed the beast that is the Ego of a Media Whore. Some weeks it's easy for me, but other weeks when none of them have covered themselves in glory, I really need to dig deep into the repertoire of superlatives to keep them off my back.
So now that I've at least given them a mention, I can get on with the match report. After all you know what they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity, or as the famous Irish playwright Oscar Wilde so eloquently put it, "The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about".
Filippello Park was the venue for the visiting Southborough team, a team who was all too familiar to Carlos Neto. Carlos' former club visiting Watertown was all the motivation he needed to put in a Man of the Match performance.
Playing like a man possessed, he was involved in most that was good from the Briar. The scoring was opened in the 1st half when Brian McGuinness set Carlos away down the left. He took his man on 1 on 1 in the box and was fouled unceremoniously. The penalty was awarded and McGuinness converted with his usual confidence. Java did well to stay out of the box while he was taking it.
Southborough had also come to play however. Jason Sullo needed to be on his toes to save a dangerous long distance shot later in the first half but the Briar were also posing questions.
Paul Glynn delivered a dangerous free kick into the box which Carlos flicked on for Java, but his shot was high. Good signs for the Greens.
The second half saw the Briar add a pair of unanswered goals. Firstly, John Hickey found the head of Joe Nolan from a corner and his towering header found Java at the back post for the simplest of finishes. Minutes later Carlos was running at his man again. Beating him to the byline he squared a tantalizing ball to Java to bag his brace in similarly comfortable fashion.
Holding a three goal advantage the Briar were always going to invite pressure from the visitors. The clean sheet was lost when a corner was defended well but the second ball into the box was headed home by an unmarked player on the six yard box.
The Briar's rear guard was up to the remaining challenges and comfortably saw out the remainder of the match with two goals to spare. A good result from the Greens who bounce back from last week's defeat and keep up their challenge for the Division 3 title.
Media Whore
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1. A person who has a psychological need to get into TV, Film, Radio or the Green Briar Blog
2. A person who becomes aroused almost sexually by seeing or hearing themselves or about themselves on the Green Briar Blog.
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Gavin Hall, John Hickey and Leo O'Connor for some reason always come to mind when I sit down to write a match report. Not so much their performances, but how to feed the beast that is the Ego of a Media Whore. Some weeks it's easy for me, but other weeks when none of them have covered themselves in glory, I really need to dig deep into the repertoire of superlatives to keep them off my back.
A picture of Hickey's thumb while reading this blog
(yes, you can count this as one more mention of your name)
So now that I've at least given them a mention, I can get on with the match report. After all you know what they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity, or as the famous Irish playwright Oscar Wilde so eloquently put it, "The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about".
Filippello Park was the venue for the visiting Southborough team, a team who was all too familiar to Carlos Neto. Carlos' former club visiting Watertown was all the motivation he needed to put in a Man of the Match performance.
Playing like a man possessed, he was involved in most that was good from the Briar. The scoring was opened in the 1st half when Brian McGuinness set Carlos away down the left. He took his man on 1 on 1 in the box and was fouled unceremoniously. The penalty was awarded and McGuinness converted with his usual confidence. Java did well to stay out of the box while he was taking it.
Southborough had also come to play however. Jason Sullo needed to be on his toes to save a dangerous long distance shot later in the first half but the Briar were also posing questions.
Paul Glynn delivered a dangerous free kick into the box which Carlos flicked on for Java, but his shot was high. Good signs for the Greens.
The second half saw the Briar add a pair of unanswered goals. Firstly, John Hickey found the head of Joe Nolan from a corner and his towering header found Java at the back post for the simplest of finishes. Minutes later Carlos was running at his man again. Beating him to the byline he squared a tantalizing ball to Java to bag his brace in similarly comfortable fashion.
Holding a three goal advantage the Briar were always going to invite pressure from the visitors. The clean sheet was lost when a corner was defended well but the second ball into the box was headed home by an unmarked player on the six yard box.
The Briar's rear guard was up to the remaining challenges and comfortably saw out the remainder of the match with two goals to spare. A good result from the Greens who bounce back from last week's defeat and keep up their challenge for the Division 3 title.
Line Up: Sullo, McElwain, Hannick, Nolan, Glynn, Hickey, Hall, O'Connor, McGuinness, Java, Neto, DKS, Graham, Balekian, Concagh, O'Brien, Goin
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