Lake FC

Lake FC was re-born on Monday night at the JJB Soccer Dome. We played 5-aside against one of our clients ENCAMS.

There was the usual banter flying around before the game. David threatening to tie Ben's laces together and pull down his shorts but that all stopped as soon as the whistle was blown.

Some say that this was they strongest Lake FC ever, with new additions of the captain David and Fergus with the usual young guns Neil, Ben and Gareth and the wise heads of Barry, Steve, Bernard and Dickie.

We were quietly confident!!

Off we went and stormed into a 1-0 lead with a goal from Dickie.

Then the whole game is a bit of a blur as we are all terribly unfit and nearly passed out after 5 mins of running around (apart from Fergus and Neil) so we had roll on roll off subs.

There was some lovely pass and moves, touches and some screaming shots that just deserved a goal, one especially from Steve that cannoned off the bar.

The game entered it's final 5 mins with the score poised at 6-6 and then WALLOP David sprang into life. His 23 year old legs got their 2nd wind and he banged in 2 goals to finish the match as a Lake victory 8-6.

ENCAMS said they were gutted to be beaten by 2 late goals, but that was always our plan. Honestly!!

Truth be told we played OK but our star man was Gareth in goal, who was awarded the Man of the Match award as he was like a cat in net and kept us in the game.

Neil and David were strong candidates for the award as they both bagged a hat trick.

BUT it's only half time! We have the away leg in Wigan on Dec 8th so we will take our 2 goal lead up there confident we can bring home the trophy.

Lake's goal scoring charts

3 - David and Neil 

1 - Fergus and Dickie

COME ON LAKE FC!!

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Go on the Robins!!

David, Neil and Barry went down to the mighty Moss Lane last night to watch our adopted local team Altrincham FC take on Luton Town FC in a FA Cup 1st round replay, after Alty drew with Luton away a couple of weeks ago.

David and Neil went off to the Tatton Arms early to get a pint and some famous massive home cooked chips, to find out they have stopped doing food! we should have gone home then!!

When we got to the ground, it was in pitch black because of a flood light failure so David and Neil waited patiently for their free tickets (David's cousin is on loan from Leicester at Luton), while we left Barry and his neighbour with the normal people at the turnstiles.

We finally got in half an hour late and expected an upset!!

In a pretty un-eventful game Luton got reduced to 10 men and Alty missed the penalty so it stayed at 0-0 all game and extra time and THEN in a tense penalty shoot out Alty lost 4-2!

It was fun BUT cold and Alty had no hot food, so we were hungry!

Anyway, onto the weekend where we should destroy Cambridge at home!

GO ON LADS!! A.L.T.Y!!

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Doing our bit for charity

We've had a raffle around the office today for Children in Need.

1st prize was David's Mum's Homemade Christmas Pudding which Ben won.

2nd prize was a box of chocolates which Gareth won.

3rd prize was some Father Christmas toilet paper which was won by Tony.

We raised a very healthy £44.

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Photoshop CS4 ad

This is wicked! I like the way they have done the ad with real stuff and things when it's actually for a computer program.

Check out more photos on - http://www.flickr.com/photos/18697966@N00/sets/72157608377333404/detail/

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Caption competition update 2

Ben's added his 2 pence worth with - "Excuse me love, is this where i come for the dogging?"

Stevie B has got in on the act with these gems - "Are we having a rollover?" and woman says to Bernard "I told him to sit but he's hard of hearing"

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Animator Vs Animation

Check this all the way out, yeah! It's class!

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs_Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

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SMACKDOWN LOWDOWN

What a night!! There are some strange people in this world, 15,000 people watching blokes in tight pants fighting in an arena. At one point i got shot down by some kid as i shouted "he's behind you!"

No Big Daddy, no Giant Haystacks, no Kendo Nagasaki, no good! It's not as i remember on a cold Saturday afternoon back in the 70's. The women with handbags have been replaced by geeks and weirdoes, it's wrestling Jim, but not as we know it.

Bernard

Giraffe

Just look at this guy! How tremendous is he?!!

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How to manage your debt

This just genius, especially in this credit crunch! Everyone should start practicing their drawing skills.

http://franksemails.com/pics/spider-payment/

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Caption competition update 1

We have 2 captions from Barry so far - "Nice puppies" and "Is this Old Trafford?"

Keep them coming boys and girls

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Caption competition

Have a good look at our Bernard here being a model for a day for ENCAMS and send us your best caption. The funniest will receive that massively oversized high vis jacket, as worn by Mr. Bernard Hesketh himself.

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Celeb spotting in Hale

We've got a new celeb around Hale to steal TV's own Michael 'Kevin from Corrie' Le Vell's thunder. None other than former Leicester City, Liverpool and Birmingham City and now Wigan Athletic and England's power house of a striker Emile Ivanhoe Heskey!! Reports he made this hand gesture when we saw him and chanted "GO ON EMILE LAD, TURF 'EM UP!!" are not true.

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Dear Father Christmas,

I would like for Christmas one of these bad boys please! I have made sure that i have been a good boy all year! Thank you, David xx

Dear David,

Unfortunately these will never be made and it's only a prototype by a designer called Ignacio Pilotto, so i instead you can have your Ferrari you always ask for. Father Christmas xx

Climb every mountain

We now have our very own adventurer in Lake. Barry managed to scale Snowdon this weekend, we at Lake are very proud of him, we also think it's very funny that he is having trouble walking around the studio today as his legs are killing him!

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