Martyn loved Saturdays, it was his favorite day of the week. He
especially loved finishing work at lunchtime.
That meant he could normally spend the day playing with his friends.
However, today was not a normal
day, today was the day that Martyn had been waiting for, for a long, long time.
Martyn hurried home after work and
met his friends just in front of the stables and they all walked up to the big
field together, as they got closer they could see that quite a few people had
already arrived and Martyn began to get nervous, after all, it was cup final
day and all these people had arrived to see Martyn and his friends play
football.
When they got there they could see
the other team on the pitch already warming up, they looked good and Martyn got
even more nervous.
Donny and Maisy, the twins, looked
at each other and then at Martyn. Martyn
gave them a wink to calm them down but didn't let on at how scared he was;
after all he was the one who had to play in goal.
All too soon the whistle blew for
the start of the match. Donny played
really well and almost scored a goal in the first few minutes but the other
team we’re too fast for him and the shot was saved.
Maisy managed to get the ball off
their main striker just as he was about to shoot towards Martyns goal and
everyone cheered.
Maisy blushed, she was still quite
shy despite playing quite a few times before.
At the end of the first half
Martyns’ Marvels and the Donkey united were level with neither of them managing
to score a goal.
After refreshments of carrots and
lemonade everyone was ready to go out for the second half.
Reggie went out first followed by
the twins, then Billy and then Martyn.
Donkey united were already there,
warming up again, Martyn gave them a smile as he walked out but none of the
other team smiled back so Martyn just carried on to the goal.
Martyn really had to work hard
during the second part of the game, Donkey united really wanted to win this
game but Martyns’ team hadn't come this far to give in without a fight, Martyn
performed save after save, oh how the crowd cheered.
With just one minute to go Donkey
uniteds’ biggest player ran into Maisy just as she was about to take her first
ever shot at the goal. The referee blew
the loudest whistle anyone had ever heard and pointed to the ground. Maisy stood in shock, she didn't know what to
do but Martyn understood what needed to happen next, Martyn’s team had been
given a penalty, if they scored now they would win the cup.
Martyn ran to the other end of the
field and everyone started chanting “ Martyn, Martyn”.
Martyn put the ball on the spot and
the referee blew his whistle again.
Martyn kicked the ball as hard as
he could and then closed his eyes, he couldn't bare to look.
The crowd roared in excitement and
all of Martyn’s team ran over to him and pulled his big donkey ears, Martyn
giggled, “ooh that tickles”, he cried.
Martyn had scored the winning goal
and Martyn’s Marvels had won the cup.
I love Saturdays, Martyn thought as
he carried the cup home.
Everyone agreed that Martyn had
truly saved the day.
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