When things just fall into place

By: Luka | September 14th, 2009

The Superettan kind of reminds me of this. It seems that as soon as a team (other than those Mjallby chaps) has an opportunity to secure 2nd or 3rd place, they slip over the proverbial banana skin or two (or ten, if you’re Assyriska) and, after a run of pretty crappy form, end up being once again part of the pack in the messy mid-to-top of the table circus act. Kind of like an elastic band – you stretch it and stretch it thinking it’s totally unbreakable and will expand forever, only to have you searching for an icepack (or a new set of eyes) as, at the moment you least expect, it’s expansion comes to a painful end. Actually, scrap that analogy.

Last night, GIF Sundsvall drew 1-1 away to (before the game) last placed Vasalunds, while “they” drew 0-0 with the other main promotion chasing protagonists Falkenbergs. The significance? If Assyriska can achieve victory over the final troll hiding below the bridge to the Allsvenskan (*pause for laughs* or sighs if I’m trying too hard) – Åtvidabergs FF – then we all of a sudden find ourselves emulating the role of Mr Bradbury and claiming the golden spot of promotion (albeit third place). Unfortunately, we have to do more than just finish the race – we need to win.

The exciting thing, though, is the schedule coming up. After this massive encounter against Atvidaberg we have the derby, and then we end the season with 4 completely winnable matches – home to Väsby & Landskrona; away to Ljungskile & Jönköpings. Our rivals, on the other hand, all happen to play each other in the run in at some point, guaranteeing dropped points somewhere by someone other than Assyriska.

Anyway, that’s me being optimistic. Let’s see how I’ll be in 36 hours’ time.

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Other matters…..

The inaugural crazy caption competition was an unabated success. It is sure to continue (on the condition that the other ‘cooler’ blogs continue doing it, and I manage to actually find a picture worth captioning). The eventual winner was Kieran with “Hey icecream man, I’ll take 5, and he’ll have 1″ (yeah, as you’d probably have guessed, there weren’t that many entries to mull over).

Kennedy Bakircioglu put in another ~~screw you for not playing me Van Basten~~masterful performance for Martin Jol’s Ajax against NAC Breda. Seriously, if he doesn’t start Ajax’s next match, I’m going to direct libelous slanders at Jol (using an anonymous username, on a public computer…….actually scrap that, Jol’s too scary). Keep it up Kennedinho.

Finally, here’s a funny picture (you know what they say about keepers who wear pink….).