Plans had changed. Betty and Barney Rubble were due to visit, but Barney had got the call-up to try-out or play for the local competition bowls team. Obviously the Gorse Fox understood and it meant that in turn he could get along to Worthing and play football for the first time in a over a month.
The Gorse Fox set off and in the first hour, playing for the yellow bibs, found that though plenty fit enough he had lost some of his match-awareness. Passes were going astray, tackles were missed, and generally he was not up to the standard he expects. The yellow-bibs lost all three games.
Not giving up, the Gorse Fox stayed on for the second hour. This was a much smaller game - in one of the 5-a-side cages. Again he was playing in yellow. It started to click a bit better in this second hour. Overall we lost 2 games and one 1, but the Gorse Fox did manage to score two goals so felt that things were looking up.
Meanwhile, back home, Betty Rubble had come down and she and the Silver Vixen headed off to The Gribble for lunch. When they got back the Gorse Fox caught up with the basic news and then headed for his study.
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