Articles by Udar Gromov

It was a dark stormy night, and Dima VOP (Voice of the People) decided to stick his neck out and start a new Yahoo! group.  That is how 2 years ago two amorphous email lists merged into one mighty Yahoo! group – My-Football.   Wow, what a remarkable and touching story. […]

Do we have enough people to play this Wednesday on Skyline?  It is getting dark around 7PM nowadays, so let’s gather at 17:30.  Cast your decisive votes. We did started early today – at 09:17.  A perfect squad of 5 on 5.  By the time Kevin and Matt entered at […]

Attention! Move your clock one hour forward today before going to bed.  It means one hour LESS to sleep! Attention! We will start at tomorrow 09:00 to beat the kids to the punch. We started at 09:35 and in 4 minutes Matt and Stas made the score 2:0 for WHITEs. […]

Today we experienced a nice, windy and warm spring day.  That means we will be kicked out soon, as we are not the only people, who fell in love with warm plastic grass. We gathered at 09:15 and started the game at 09:38.  Most of the game we played 8 […]

We were afraid that it will take months for our high snow bank to melt away. It was a great surprise to see the entire field plowed, and all the show completely off the field. Skyline last Sunday after a fresh dump of snow on the ground. It was only […]

DARKs played down 4 on 5 for the first 55 minutes of the game (from 10:58 to 11:03). They were winning 5:2 and full of enthusiasm.  Then, exhausted and tired, they played 4 on 4 for the remaining 52 minutes (from 11:03 to 11:55) and lost 1:5.  How can we make […]

Next week a lot of people  are disappearing due to a long weekend.  Goals are transferred to Lesha K.  So keep tune for the news. Goalkeeper seems distracted And an inevitable goal a second later Almost no clean up today.  Just fixed a far remote corners of the field.  Plus, shovels […]

Tomorrow it will be cold, nasty weather.  All the hell will break loose.  And the wind will blow hard.   And your feet will freeze and eventually fall off.  Do not risk it.  Stay home with wife and kids, if any. For the rest of us, today we got 9 people.  […]

Yes!  We are still playing. But no one gets any statistics.  On Saturdays we do not have enough people and it is not official.  On Sundays we are getting too many people, and we have to play with 3 rotating teams. This week we discovered a sheet of ice under […]

Winter records were broken by our team-member attendance.  It is end of a snowy of January,  and we had 16 people on the ground today. Youthful enthusiasm prevailed, and after one tired shovel worrier, grew another one to replace him. We extended the field, but only 4 on 4 could […]

Six people made their way through snow and cold.   Even small  “sniper” shovels played their role today.  And all were rewarded with a bright sunshine and mild windless conditions. Lenia G. like a mirage on the horizon was appearing several times, but never materialized into a flesh and blood.  What […]