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Saturday
17th March
Hello Fantanamaniacs!!
Now then Now then……
Welcome to the latest edition of Captain’s Corner…ladies and
gentleman the Cup Final is just around the corner and the RCF are
there for the 2nd year running.
We’re facing Sungate on the 25th March at Thurrock FC, they turned
us over in the league this season so we’re looking for a bit of
revenge!!
Captain Dizzy has been laying low….I been going about my business
quietly and in a generally nice manner. I also been in hard training
(Rocky style) for the cup final. This edition is a rally cry to the
RCF…...to stand up tall in the words of my brother Dizee Rascal.
There are no reports of shenanigans, or the RCF misbehaving so I
will commence…..listen up……
We must not underrate the gravity of the task which lies before us
or the temerity of the ordeal, to which we shall not be found
unequal. We must expect many disappointments, and many unpleasant
surprises (in life), but we may be sure that the task which we have
freely accepted is one not beyond the compass and the strength of
the RCF. I once said to one of the boys while out in faces, if
these great trials were to come upon us (cup finals etc etc blah
blah blah), there is a generation of RCF players here now ready to
prove themselves not unworthy of the days of yore and not unworthy
of those great men, the fathers of our land, who laid the
foundations of our laws and shaped the greatness of our country.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and roles, and so
bear ourselves that, if the RFC pull off a decent win, men will
still say, "This was one of their finest 90mins or 120mins if it
goes to extra time."
This is no time to speak of the hopes of the future, or the broader
world which lies beyond our struggles and our victory. We have to
win that cup for our children. We have to win it by our sacrifices,
our tackles are passing and creativity. We have not won it yet. The
crisis is upon us. The power of the enemy is immense, those Sungate
boys are a tough bunch. If we were in any way to underrate their
brute strength, the resources or the ruthless savagery of that
enemy, we should jeopardize, not only our lives, for they will be
offered freely, but the cause of human freedom and progress to which
we have vowed ourselves and all we have. We cannot for a moment of
the 90 mins afford to relax, well unless we go 4 or 5 nil up??? On
the contrary we must drive ourselves forward with unrelenting zeal.
In this strange, sometimes terrible world there is a place for
everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a
thousand forms is open.
We are assured that novel methods will be adopted by Sungate, and
when we see the originality, malice and ingenuity of aggression
which our enemy displays we may certainly prepare ourselves for
every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and
treacherous manoeuvre. I think no idea is so outlandish that it
should not be considered and viewed with a watchful, but at the same
time steady, eye.
Captains final thoughts…..
We must never forget the solid assurances of passing power and those
which belong to air power if they can be locally exercised (couple
of us aint bad in the air). As Captain and top scorer this season
from midfield might I add, I have myself full confidence that if all
do their duty and if the best arrangements are made, as they are
being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to win us
another cup then spend the rest of the Sunday getting on it, ride
out the storms of ware outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary,
for years, if necessary, alone
We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end, 120mins and
penalties if required. We shall compete in Thurrock on the floor
and in the air; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing
strength in the air, even tho we’re a fairly small side.. We shall
defend our goal whatever the cost may be; we shall fight in tackles,
from corners and set pieces and throw ins. We shall never surrender
and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, the RCF were
subjugated and beaten, then the RCF empire will carry on the
struggle until in the Essex Corinthian Football League with all its
power and might, for the rest of the season and many more to come
There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the
shirker, or the sluggard (ha ha…..not naming any names here!!) The
mine, the factory, the dockyard, the salt sea waves, the fields to
till, the home, the hospital, the chair of the scientist, the pulpit
of the preacher - from the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of
equal honour; all have their part to play. The enemies of the Essex
Corinthian League ranged against us, coalesced and combined against
us, have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it.
Sungate here we come…..X
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