Fog nearly win, well not really

When the game kicked off at the crazy time of 9:00am Sunday morning, the Fog were as close to 3 points as they were going to get. I turned up just a little bit into the second half so I could either make the whole report up or give you the last 15 mins.
It was 4-1 when I arrived but the VFFC certainly didn't look down and out, we had a few chances but unfortunatly so did the opposition (I have no idea what the team name is) and they took their chances better than we did.
Although I only saw the final minutes, there were plenty of talking points, Peter (Dadu) Brayshaw managing to avoid a yellow card was the main one, but I think Creston's stint in goal was my favourite, some great saves and a very impressive underarm throw out while hovering in the air. Nice.


Sebas ready for anything, Kari not.


The hope


Bend it like Feldman

Anyway, winning isn't everything in football (Unless we're talking about Liverpool in the Champions League),
Sometimes being cool is way more important, here's some proof that when it comes to being cool the Velvet Fog come top of the league every time.


Wasn't the guy in the middle in "CHiPs" ?


Wow! I rest my case.

Nick Hornby signs for the VFFC!!

Breaking news!
Here's an exclusive picture of the Velvet Fog's new signing,
Nick Hornby of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a boy fame.
With the recent absence of Gazza, the Fog had been missing a middle aged bald guy,
Bruce and myself talked him into posing with the famous shirt, he said he thought the team name was "Very cool".
Check out his new book "A Long way down" he read a few pages from it, sounds pretty good.


Bruce looks thrilled as Hornby signs for the Fog.

It's for charity!

Today was the Tsunami relief tournament and the day was full of mixed fortunes for the Fog.
We had some moments of brilliance, including Mark's headed goal on his debut, Kari's David James (On one of his good days) style reflex save, and both Bigo and Kara's getting the better of D.K. The nerve of them!
On the flip side, we had Creston's David James (On one of his bad days) style "Assist" and a negative, double digit goal difference due to some teams entering a league well below their level just so they could rack up some goals and give their ego's a boost, but remember "It's for charity".
Special thanks to new recruits Mellenia, Mark and long time member first time competitor Alex.


Bigo Supersizes himself


Sebastian using his hands without getting carded


Kari putting the moves on.

VFFC come out of retirement

Well the sun was out and so was the Fog (if you know what I mean)
A great turnout of 12 VFFCers graced Mosswood park on Saturday morning, big ups to the SF posse who did themselves proud. Kara won the Beckham award for having the same colour nails as the match ball.

These next photos we're taken using the Player Cam Technique which is so hi tech that it would be difficult to describe, but basically it involves running around playing football while holding the camera and taking blurred photos, here's what's worth looking at out of 150 pictures.


Seba's back



Riverdance comes to Mosswood



You put your right foot in.....

Boxing Day

Mark is rescued by Slim Jim
Originally uploaded by karice.

Only the die hard Velvet Fog members made it on Boxing Day--Mark, Bigo, Rob, Kari, Iain, Parmjeet and Bruce. Parmjeet succumbed to a groin injury but Bruce was able to sub in for her so we were able to continue our 3-on-3 game.

Mark discovered the disadvantage of arriving on time (too early) by locking his keys in his car. We took immediate action and went to Iain's and Parmjeet's for the Chelsea v. Villa match before calling AAA and heading back to the Presidio.

AAA proved why they are America's leading emergency road service by arriving about 5 minutes after we did and getting Mark's door unlocked in less than a minute.

The tow truck driver suggests practicing with the slim jim in warmer weather. Mark suggests you all go and find those little plastic keys the dealer gives you and put them in your wallet immediately. Turns out they're very uesful.