Another match in Chevilly, another loss… this time with the Cocks, some of whom behaved a bit like cocks after the match. To be fair, the 4-3 decision was a tough one for us. We had only 17 Cocks (compared to the 20+ we usually have) for the match, and at least five of our best players were in bed with the flu. I got a bit of a knock in the first half and was a Cock with a limp ater that, and there were other limping Cocks as well. Plus, we faced a referee who called a lot of penalties on us and not many on the other team. Two of the guys from Chevilly told me after the match that the ref had been too hard on the Cocks, that the match should have been a draw. Peu importe, really. The fact is that the Cocks were bloated and out of shape from going almost a month with no action. The Cocks managed to explode in the first half, but went flaccid in the second, losing a 3-1 lead and, at the last minute, the match. Referees and limping Cocks aside, we played like crap. Unfortunately, after the Cocks’ first loss of the season, some Cocks didn’t want to admit their own softness and blamed the loss on everything but themselves. Bad form. In two weeks, the Cocks and the Japanese will have a match on the same day… I am leaning toward turning Japanese, but we’ll see.

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