“The toughest game of the season arrived all too quickly for Real.
The awesome four Mummy contingency was bolstered by the towering powerhouse that is affectionately known as Tut! Tut had knocked his head on the way to the game, evident by the bandages, leaving him a little unsure of where he was at times, despite the deafening cheers of the blood frenzied crowd.

Karla figured now was a good time to wear that armour he purchased in the off season, figuring as the only surviving Ghoul of Season Three that he would need it, and we plied the ref with the little bit of change we had in our coffers… and we were set.

Sirius received fist after the ball went out of bounds, giving it to Mummy, Gustav Segerström II and began breaking armour at the LOS before following up with a gang foul on a lowly zombie that even the ref couldn’t fail to spot despite the Mummy screen. Knowing that there was no chance of taking the ball from the Khemri, Real began to work on their support players, taking down the Blitz-Ras and shifting them off the field. The angered Mummies charged foul-specialist Ion, and killed him!!! But he had still much more work to do in this after life and promptly regenerated much to the Real fans’ relief.

Tut then Seriously injured Zombie, Alvaro, and yet again his bones twisted back into shape… the Khemri were an unstoppable force and soon enough Real decided the better tact was to pretend to be dead – but even with five players on the pitch, Sirius wanted to see if they were indeed pretending and booted a Mummy, you know – to make the next teams job easier and all! The Coach growled and wrote it in his black book!

The Khemri made a convincing score.

1 - 0

The extra moments of the half combined with half time was enough for Real to put out a full team to try and level the score.

Real set up for a heavy flank drive and the Khemri booted the ball high into the air, giving them the opportunity to BLITZ! Real fan’s hearts sank. The Khemri closed in, and oddly opted to blitz a zombie with their Mummy then stand near Real’s most highly decorated Mummy, Enaut Zubikarai Goni, who was keen to add to his regalia!

Enaut Zubikarai Goni decked the first half Khemri Mummy scorer, Gustav Segerström II, who had shown real optional and quickly sealed the transfer deal with death to recruit the Mummy to the better team! The fans howled, the coach cheered, and Sirius started to count their pennies to see if they could afford a new replacement... they came up about 80K short, odd.

Real were not yet done, the sole Blitz-Ra that had positioned himself next to Karla Laburu was also sent to the BH box… teaching the rookie that you never mess with oldest OBBA Ghoul! Ion, not to be outdone, and recalling his recent near death experience then piled boot long into another Mummy that Sirius had drawn too close to the fray and killed him… fortunately he regenerated however.

Sirius were left in disarray and Real’s injured horde of Mummies, who had found themselves selected over some of Real’s better Zombies this game waded in to tie the remaining Mummies up. Real marched on, fouling all the way with the magic of Ion’s boot – safe in the knowledge of the bribe, Leadalis Ramoura sent a Throw-Ra to the BH bin… and the unstoppable march continued.

All that Sirius could do was hit Zombies and move Skellies into none existent threatening positions as Real stalled it out to the finish and a truly glorious 1 – 1 result!

With their toughest game over and points taken from it – the morale in the dressing room is on a high. With two straight games against new and unusual opposition it’s hard to say if Real’s tactics will translate well over these particular borders… but they’re considering it as a holiday for now!

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I was a little surprised that Goff blew his only 80K on Tut given that my team was already 50TS down, and comprised largely of skilled zombies that would be LOS fodder anyway. Anyhow – he did much to my sorrow. :) Hopefully, he’ll come to regret this soon. :P

Iron Man was a god send, allowing Karla to be an annoyance to Tut most of the game as Duh Where am I was ineffective on the whole.

A draw here has been awesome… a game I thought I would lose in horrible fashion, and Goff to by his smack talk and a dead Khemri Mummy which Goff could have replaced had he not spent 80K on Tut – have I mentioned that already? :D

If I can draw every game this season and skill some players up whilst doing so I may have a better Cup run… but it’s a little early to be thinking that far ahead. :)

GG Goff.
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