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Toilet-paper-gate continues - 5XI match report

Toilet-paper-gate continues - 5XI match report

Dan Hough22 May 2017 - 20:34
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The fifth dimension come off second best, but that didn't prevent them from having what can at the very least be described as an interesting day.

The journey back to Twickenham was a fairly unremarkable affair until Donners almost ran over an Oompa Loompa and I had a close encounter with a very large, and very drunk, baked potato
- Phil Walker

Even by Phil Walker's standards - and readers of this site will know that these standards are high - this week's 5th team match report is a gem. Although I think this may be the first match report I have ever seen where there is a case for including a trigger warning. You'll see what I mean as you read on.

The references to early 1970s American rock bands (you've done really well if you work that one out), Welsh badminton internationals (no, not Phil Parker, sorry), a posse of pink panthers, a drunk baked potato (I am not making this up, I promise you) and a counterfeit money episode are all, in their own ways, delightful. The on-going toilet paper issues (it is getting to the stage where a book needs to be written about this) are still the real talking point. Then again, it wouldn't be a fifth XI game without toilet paper issues. See here for the full lowdown on all of the above and, sadly, the third defeat out of three. But, there is reason to be hopeful that the tide will turn soon ... if only as Walker's Warriors won't come up against a bowler of Steve Blighton's quality every week.

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