OHAFC Advent Calendar: December 9th
9 Dec 2014
For day number 9 we go back to 2003 and somewhere about as far removed from a cold December day in the UK as you can get: a warm summer's evening on Copacabana Beach in Rio, where the OHAFC Easter Tour party took on some of Flamengo's kids at Beach Football.
Despite never having played the game properly, the Harrow team were soon causing problems for the Brazilians - largely thanks to the slightly underhand tactic of getting 'keeper Bert Worthy to throw the ball the length of the pitch and hope for a deflection off another player.
After checking the rules, the referee ruled that goals could be scored this way and the OHAFC were soon on the scoreboard, reducing their arrears to just 11 goals...