Lots of crazy things happen in Squamish, and not just on the field...
Apparently Chief Kickitfar experienced some financial difficulties that caused him to both resign from running the tourney and also to leave town. The Squamish Soccer District took over running things, and in the transition, a lot of things got "lost," including a number of team entries. My own team's entry in the geriatric division was "found" at about 4:30 on the Friday before the gong show. Nice, especially after we'd already contacted all our players and had to explain that the entry we'd submitted at the beginning of March had been "lost." The organizers apologized profusely, and said that a number of other teams were in the same position, but that they intended to have things better run for next year.
The usual gang of loonies appeared for the beer garden follies, including the Lomas women dresed up silly (loved the one with the pasties & tassles). Tricycle races and free kicks for beer helped us avoid the ridiculous lineups there. Stinking hot both afternoons (record high temperatures for Squamish that weekend), so the gardens were extremely well-occupied. De rigeur pisstakes of Hollywood's hair as he was setting up a shootout, of course...
Apparently, there were a large number of photos taken by a pro photog, who has posted them on his own site for sale
. You can preview them, but not copy or download them there. PM me for the URL, because I don't want to give this guy any free advertising.
I got recruited by Eye-yacks in the o30's; we lost out on mighthaves (one off the post and a beckham'ed penno) to Richmond Firefighters who went on to split the pot with Coogers. Glad I only had to play Telus league after that...
Hopefully the organizers have learned a bit and can get their shite together better for next year...
beerz (off to have one now),
stew
