The annual football competition among the schools within the province of Tcha takes place throughout the last month of the year and most schools have enrolled their football team for the annual tourney. Morris' school also enrolled to compete in the tournament.
The winner of the tourney usually represents the province at the national level in addition to being awarded automatic scholarship for all the team players and some cool cash rewards. It is indeed a highly motivated competition and all the participating teams always prepare very well for it. Some of the participating schools even go the extra length by hiring some mercenaries to help them prosecute their matches so as to win the grand prize.
Morris is a fine player and his school is always proud of his performances in the football pitch. His dazzling footballing skills usually set any stadium alight. Only having him fit and present in your team guarantees you an outright victory as he is a rock and a workaholic. He is more or less 'a one-man' squad.
But Morris however has a problem...he is a rough player. He is also highly temperamental. He has worked on this negative aspect of his game but nothing positive has come out of it. His team is usually deducted some points due to his unsavoury uncontrollable behaviour in the field of play at times.
His school, by his sordid efforts has made it to the finals of the competition in their province. He was the tormentor-in-chief that saw the champoins of last year's edition eliminated. He is in fact the pillar of his team.
On the day of the finals, Morris continued his fine form and was tormenting their opponent such that whenever he gets the ball everybody will be anticipating a goal therefrom. The score remained goalless up to the 80th minute of the game. It was indeed a tough match which has lived up its prematch billing...a proper finals between two good footballing teams.
Suddenly, Morris received the ball from the far corner of the pitch, made some dazzling moves and sped off like a thunder and coasting towards the goal post of the opposing team. This move set the whole stadium agog with all spectators in full anticipation of the winning goal. But out of the blue, a defender of the opposing team arrived and pulled Morris from behind and hauled him to the ground! The uproar in the stadium was tumultuous.
Morris became so furious and his temper rose. Old Bedlam was let loose. He started approaching the defender that hauled him down in a menacing manner and all his teammates feared for the worse to come. But by the time they could get to him Morris had reached the said defender and head-butted him twice! The spectators who were initially in support of him when he was hauled down. started jeering at him. The referee smiled. It was however an evil smile as he reached out to his pocket and produced a red card. Morris was given the matching orders. His team has been reduced to 10-men!!!
As soon as he left the pitch the game restarted and the other team scored twice in a space of two minutes. They unceremoniously lost the finals.