Green Book 2022: Tomorrow We'll Be Sore
Come along for a rollercoaster ride of a season with a motley crew of men from many walks of life playing the world game for a suburban football club. Laugh, cry or perhaps marvel at the inner workings of the thing that keeps them out of the house for many hours and glimpse the messy, uncomplicated beauty that is blokes playing sport. Tongues firmly in cheek!
Come along for a rollercoaster ride of a season with a motley crew of men from many walks of life playing the world game for a suburban football club.
Laugh, cry or perhaps marvel at the inner workings of the thing that keeps them out of the house for many hours and glimpse the messy, uncomplicated beauty that is blokes playing sport. Tongues firmly in cheek!
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As we cheered in 2022, there came a repeated suggestion to play Ely up the front this year.
Sure it was still January but by then Jorge hadn’t schmoozed any poor unsuspecting striker,
real or still in the closet, to join us. To those who may not know him, Ely is a pretty quiet,
unsuspecting and mild-mannered guy who plays in our backline - but not one to be messed
with. A few opposing wingers and strikers found that out the hard way during the last
season when they clattered into, grappled with, got bumped off, mowed down or wrestled
with our ‘enforcer’. But as it is so often the case in the Greens universe, his fame grew with
the amount of generated laughs to the point where for anything to be sorted with a quiet
stare and threat of violence - we ‘just call Ely’. There are simply too many funny references to
Ely’s ‘persuasive powers’ in our WhatsApp feed to feature but keep an eye on them throughout
this chronicle. And if ‘Ely gets what Ely wants’ we may have a new striker, right?
Speaking of Ely, during the previous season we chipped in to help his Mum with the cost of
COVID hospitalisation in their home in Venezuela but sadly the virus prevailed. We rallied
around our teammate just like we had done when Andrew lost his father to COVID in South
Africa earlier that year. And the team rallied again this year when Tomaz announced he had
to suddenly travel to Slovenia to see his father, recently diagnosed with an aggressive and
terminal cancer. Within minutes the WhatsApp feed filled with best wishes, offers of help
and reflections on one’s own circumstances. That’s Greens for you, more than just football
hijinks.
While Tomaz swapped the sweltering Perth for wintry Slovenia for a month, Djokovic got
deported in three sets much to the cheers of Australia. Soon after, McGowan reneged on the
5th of February border opening while Putin saw fit to start the invasion of Ukraine. None of
this of course stopped the Greens chatter. In readying himself for another season of contact
sport that football is, Muz made a public New Year’s resolution about the changes to his
communication style this year. If not ref’s fault, who was going to cop it this year?
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