England Football Writers and The Non-Doms

The UK Parliamentary Football Club had a tough match against the England Football Writers this morning, but the MPs eventually ran out 5-2 winners.

The journalists - who, as their team name suggests, write concerning the England football matches - should have been home and hosed by half-time but a string of misses ensured the Parliamentarians came back in the second half to take the honours.

The probable turning point was when at 3-2 in the second half one of the writers was sent off for a torrent of foul and abusive language.

As most of the writers were from The Guardian newspaper, bad language is not necessarily a rarity but given the usual level of accuracy in that publication I did feel if the abuse had been written down there would have at least been a possibility that his outburst would have been miss-spelt and the confusion would have allowed him to remain on the pitch.

(Actually, I might check whether the game gets any coverage in The Guardian tomorrow - you never know, the report may end up saying that we lost 8-3!)

Many good performances from the Parliamentary side with goals coming from Stephen Hesford MP, James Radford, Zach Gosse and Dom Berner (plus an own goal) - but an interesting fact that at least half our defence was called Dom.

As anyone will tell you though, it is the non-Doms who need to watch out - apparently we now charge them £30k a year for the privilege of being here. ;-)
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