Black and White by Rob Childs

Author:Rob Childs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2011-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

To their credit, the Juniors recovered from the shock of conceding the equalizer and hit back with more attacks of their own. Time and again, the favourites went close to restoring their lead but could not find a way past Rajesh again.

The captain was having the game of his life, perhaps spurred on by the desire to outdo his rival. The goalkeeper pulled off a number of fine saves, the best of which had all the spectators applauding.

The Juniors simply could not believe they had failed to score. Rajesh had dived full length to turn the first shot against a post and then had somehow recovered in time to block the rebound at point-blank range.

“Great stuff, Raj!” cried Josh generously. “Fantastic!”

Rajesh grinned as teammates came up to slap their keeper on the back.

“Right, I’ve done my stuff,” he told them. “Now you go and do yours at the other end.”

Josh did exactly that. With time running out and the prospect of a penalty shoot-out to find a winner – Josh started a rare Westgate raid by sweeping the ball out to Matthew near the touchline.

“Take him on, Matt,” he cried. “Beat him for speed.”

His opponent found out just how fast Matthew was. The striker pushed the ball past him and sprinted after it, leaving the defender for dead. The ball almost went dead, too, but Matthew just managed to catch it up before it ran out of play. He looked up to see Leela’s waving arm, signalling where she wanted the ball.

The cross was perfect, right into her path, but both her marker and the goalkeeper had closed in to make any shot very difficult. Leela didn’t even bother touching the ball. She suddenly let it zip past her, selling them a dummy, and the ball rolled invitingly across the deserted area.

The only player who could reach it was Josh. He had continued his lung-bursting run forward, outpacing any defender, and now he stretched out a leg in a desperate attempt to make contact with the ball.

He did so – just. The ball hit his shin rather than his boot, but it was enough to send it bouncing into the unguarded net to put Westgate 2-1 ahead.

Josh was almost too weary to stand up by himself and he was hauled to his feet by teammates. Exhausted by the effects of the cold, he was in no fit state to carry on and Mr Blyton replaced him with Jay for the last two minutes of the game.

“That’s my boy!” cried his father, giving him a big bear hug on the touchline. “Pity your ma ain’t here to see what you done.”

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