Pints!

Almaty Athletic will look to build on last week's hard fought victory over (previous) league leaders Slievenamon by beating Pints tomorrow night. With three remaining fixtures this season, Almaty cannot afford to drop points in any of the games in their quest for silverware.

The only notable absentee from last week is player manager Gaffer. In his quest to add more letters to the end of his name Gaffer is undertaking some more examinations (FIFA have insisted that all astro league managers must now obtain the FIFA Coaching Licence by 2009). However if Jer "Haagen Dazs" Sweethands is detained at work, Gaffer is on standby to reprise his goalkeeping heroics of the game against whoever it was we played when he went in goal. Thus it seems likely that Gaffer is set to prolong his agonising run of 0 goals this season.

However, in a welcome boost, the one and only Tricks Galvin will be returning to the fold. In a pre-match friendly on Sunday James G put on a dazzling display - here's what one of the opposition had to say about him: "I must say that the guy James was without question one of the best players I have ever played against in my life. He was unbelievable. It looked as though he was hardly even trying to be fair. It was brilliant to play against him and his skill level was insane. His boyish curls were lovely and he was so dreamy."

Little is know about the opposition as they were unable to field a team for the first fixture. Tadhg "The Rock" O'Connell will need to be at his best again this week as Pints are able to score a few goals as shown in their 9-1 drubbing over Citco FC. Yeah, yeah, it was only Citco...