“After a chilly day, the evening brought perfect Blood Bowl weather for a friendly match between Norse and Nurgle under the floodlights.

Both teams clearly held back a bit in the first half, with none of the injuries the 13,000 fans had gathered for. The Laundrymen got the ball and ran it down the pitch as quick as they could, hoping to surf a few players but having to score quickly to prevent frenzied Norsemen snatching the chance away from them.

With the butterfingered Norsemen incapable of picking up the ball, defending for the rest of the half wasn't a big struggle for the noxious horde of Nurgle.

In the second half, even with the Laundrymen playing a perfect defensive setup, with the Ravens remembering how to pick up and move, the score was 1-1 with a quarter to go. The Laundrymen prepared themselves to try and replay their first drive, but a blitz by the Ravens put paid to that. With coach Rupe playing the well-known rope-a-dope and pulling the ball deep into his own half where the Laundrymen were too slow to reach it, and then running up the other wing, a 2-1 defeat looked inevitable.

In a last ditch manouvre, having wasted a bit of time surfing an Ulfwerener into the stands, Industrial Floorclean sprinted halfway back across the pitch just in time to push Nefsteins off the pitch. Again, the crowd failed to do anything rough, leaving the runner unscathed and tossing the ball just a few yards into the pitch. By then, with the Norse battered and bloodied, it was time for both teams to call it an evening, finishing off with some desultory tossing of the ball from one rotter to another.

Detergent Applicator had a few things to say about the Norsemen encouraging him a bit too hard to get up when he was down, but clearly malingering - there are no signs of his claimed smashed knee.”