Fun, football, and freezing

Saturday arrived all to quickly this week and it arrived with a headache too. It was the perfect excuse not to go to training in the morning, so I left it to Colin while I stayed in bed. Mind you it felt like they were using my head to practice with.

I recovered enough to sit on the sofa to watch the Glorious Scots win their fifth rugby game in a row...not quite as memorable a number as Englands seven consectuive defeats......

Braving the cold Colin and I took our five teams to play in the last week of the league games. It was a night of events...We arrived with the minibus, picked up the necessary kids and went to the grounds for the games. On arriving I got a phonecall saying the bus had been double booked and should be heading for a wedding in Chester...great...stuck ona Saturday night with no transport back home!!

The U16's league was close, we were in second place, 5 points seperated us and the top team but we had a game inhand. So quick calculations and a few moments of despair we realised that if both teams won all their games it would come down to the game between them to decide the winners. Not just that but it was the last game of the evening. True to form both teams won all their other games and as predicted it was down to the last game. Hoarse, I have never shouted so much in my life. The final whistle blew and we had lost 1-0. Gutted. Absolutely gutted. The lads were very good about it, especially as the other teams managers had brought champagne to celebrate...a little presumptious and a little neglegent of the law.

U14's Had struggled all season with committement from some team members, despite this they played every week, some weeks with just 4 players (6-a-side) to end the season a valiant 3rd. All credit to them for outstanding efforts, how well they would have done with one or two more players.

U12's- Now we had two teams in this league both at the top two spots of the table. Who would win. Obviously Colin and I did!! Interestingly enough our team with the youngest player in the league did. He also happened to be the goal keeper, so definetly all credit to him.

What next well this saturday coming is the cup night, where all teams start again with 0 points and play a tournament in one evening (please pray that it stays nice, not cold and not wet!!). The U16's are once again determined to win, the U14's should make a good go of it and the U12's -well as long as the goal keeper turns up we should be ok there too....

more football scores soon......