And I have to say Scamp got it spot on when all he said to me in a mail, “You’re boys are going to take one hell of a beating”. Despite the fact that I had wished his boys good luck he was nonetheless spot on. We lost 4-0.
To be blunt I came back on Monday morning to a fairly deflated team. ‘It could have been worse, much worse’, was one of the more upbeat responses to the mauling.
I need to be stoical about these matters. I like to think it was like the Arsenal kids against Chelsea’s millionaire thugs in the Carling Cup Final, all about the future.
There were the odd claim that some the BBH players didn’t know each others names. Evidence of ringerdom or just a much larger agency? (I merely plant the seed). Also as many of the Dare FC starlets never having worked in an ad agency they didn’t understand the tradition of the post room of every large agency containing at least one player who had trials with West Ham.
But no, credit where credit is due, the general consensus was that BBH were a fine team and we were far used to playing 5-a-side than with the big boys.
There is probably some kind of link to digital agencies and traditional agencies there somewhere if you dig really hard.
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