I got a late call to do two today. To my surprise and delight... they were both Xmas tournament finals. Futsal, different game I know...
The first thing I had to do was give out the medals and trophy to the winners of the ladies' final as the organizer had some problems.
First was the more serious, but one team went ahead and then the other game away a raft of fouls. We got to long penalties and it finished 5-0.
The other was the hobby version, a 40+ team against 18 year old mates.
The young guys were only there as they spotted a ringer in their semi final opponents. After the organizer dealt with that, they made the final.
The young guys were only thereIt was low on quality but thrilling and the youngsters won 1-3.
Which was great, until at the final whistle, just before the medals, the eliminated semi finalists told the losing finalists that the youngsters now had a ringer - poor lad he had played a few games in a division that made him ineligible - he didn't know - you can imagine the other team had spent an hour online combing all the players records!
So, the organizer had to make a few calls, but eventually the match was forfeit. Verbal abuse from those semi losers, youngsters go home tail between legs, old boys come out on top!