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Football Match?

The local derby was to be played and a few hundred people were waiting for the cash desks to be opened so that they could get one of the tickets enabling them to watch the match. The two teams and the referee with the two linesmen came onto the field. At first I thought that my eyes were playing tricks on me. First the referees and linesmen faded from my site then the teams, eleven men also out of my vision. What on earth is happening I shook my head to clear any thing that might have been stopping me from seeing clearly?

I concentrated on the line up where the two teams shake hands with first the referees and linesmen then with the opposite team. The opposite team repeats this tradition and the ball is placed in the middle of the field and the team that has won the tossed up coin kicks the ball into play. The centre forward kicked the ball but as he kicked the ball vanished into nothing. I next saw the ball apparently rolling towards the opposite teams goal. It trickled into the goal and there were cries of swindle, swindle. The ball was again kicked to the centre of the field this was my next surprise the team with the red shirts suddenly disappeared from the field just the blue shirts stood looking stupidly at what was not on the field. The red shirts reappeared with the football being kicked to each other right up to the blue shirts goal. The goalie also disappeared. Now the shouts were really ugly. We want our money back this is not football it is a magicians nightmare with first the players disappearing then the football rolling on its own into the goal, one glorious big swindle we want our money back. A loud voice from the speakers gave off a loud laugh. Can you not take a joke we are two teams of dead footballers that are bored with sitting on clouds waiting for our portions of manna and playing on harps that we have no knowledge of. Please let us enjoy ourselves for once. They will not let us play against the devils in case the devils cheat and, as you all know we have all been guilty of cheating while we were alive. The crowd at the local derby all stood and gave the voice a standing ovation. The football match started all over again. I must say for myself I enjoyed every minute of the football match between the two teams that were in reality Angels that were bored with not only Manna but with harps that none of them could play. All were at this match honest all admitted to cheating while they were on earth. I hope that manage to convince someone in charge up there to let them come once a week or so back down to earth to play football. I for one would go to every match they played.