The towel slipped and he saw her erect nipple inviting him across the threshold. But the door caught

[Ears are alight]

a gust of wind and closed before he could move, and the moment was gone. Just my luck, he thought, as he turned and trudged away.

My entry for Awimb's competition to describe in allegory the number of across the goalline chances not put in by our players late on yesterday.

Yours?

[Monty91]

miss yesterday. From my vantage point, he looked pretty much blameless as it was whipped at him from such short distance and there was a defender between him and the ball too. Wrong?

[Ears are alight]

[Norn Iron]

It totally changed the flight of the ball and he had no time to adjust.

[East Upper for Supper]

fault at all you can understnad that in normal time it looked a bad miss. Or maybe not.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

unchallenged, didn't need to jump and he headed it about 2 yards over the bar.

The late chance from Podolski's centre get a huge deflection and hit him 2/3rds of the way up his thigh.

[Mack]