Hoping for the best, but secretly fearing the worst – the 10 men of Dinamo Internazionale (in the worst piece of last minute luck ever – 6 men went down on Sunday) pumped themselves up and got down to some hairy-chested business. Flopping by the kickers ensued, and the ref certainly proved himself without thorough training when Welner was smacked upside the head out side the area bu the goalkeeper. Though it was ruled a foul, the goal keeper (last man, deliberate handball, killing a clear goalscoring opportunity) didn’t even get a yellow.

Annoying as that was, we reluctantly moved onto the ensuing free kick – which Dayle did not flub into the back post pressure area where a combination of pressure from Matt and Ronny forced their defence and goalie to fumble the ball into the net. The story of the first half continued with Inter battling away and resisting the many wave of attack and trying to release Welner up top.

20 minutes into the second half and SL Kickers flop expert is called upon to dive in the box (their first foray into our 18 to this point) and without any contact or pressure from Ronny Chow goes down like a sack of spuds. Of course, Greg saved the penalty but they scored from the rebound and the psychic energy was sucked out of the hot and bothered Dinamos.

Tiredness ensued and Dayle got a yellow for mixing it with dive-boy, though other decision making went the way of wobbly legs and exhaustion. A battle to celebrate for sure, play like this with 16 guys available and we kill anyone in the division. Greg had an absolute blinder and the surprise package of the day was the terrific and industrious Alex Barco.