This week, SSFL Vice-Chair Rodber notified the league managers that tape used to secure players’ socks must match the colour of the sock. This somewhat innocuous law immediately brought the Albion squad to near panic as Don informed the team that he stocked up last season on five crates of white tape.
Lauder: "Last year they said we had to have matching pants, but the refs only checked mine twice before giving up."
With the team’s (Don’s) supply of locker room currency suddenly worthless, a barrage of questions flooded manager Barker during the Wednesday training session. Jindy Mann pointed out that everyone will need different colored tape – the socks have so many holes in them, Albion will need to match tape to skin colour. The Donfather, overcome with frustration, vowed to use his crates of tape to seal Rodber’s car shut while the vice-chairman was reffing a match.
Whether or not the SSFL refs will be able to enforce this rule is debatable. Other league rules like the “no half hair cuts” rule, the “no fried chicken in the dressing room” rule, and the “no mocking of shinpad goals allowed” rule were talked about often, but rarely, if ever, enforced. Only time will tell if Albion can overcome yet another hurdle put in place by league management.