The Mowsbury Galacticos

This evening saw the return of the football season after an unintentional winter break and, despite everyone being noticeably fatter and breathing a lot more heavily, the football on show was of Real Madrid proportions. Or Barcelona? Barcelona won 5-0, so Barcelona!

I was expecting everyone to be highly off-colour and not interested because of it, but everyone showed up with a willing to perform, which meant I had to be bothered so I didn't seem so far out of sync. I was blowing after the warm-up, (oi!), and for some reason my thighs were feeling as if I had had a whole hour workout on them. Still, football was being played and played well! Both teams were passing it around at a rate of knots and both were as smooth as a chocolate gateau. Or a pint of John Smith's. It was all good.

The only thing that wasn't good, was me asking a fellow team-mate, "How drunk were you when you got all your hair shaved off?!" only to face the reply of, "I was ill innit", (yeah, some of them are proper Gangster blood). It was one of those moments, similar to the old, "When's the baby due?" ... "When's the WHAT due?" gag. Oh well!

Personally? I made a couple of good saves, as I usually do, but struggled with the basics that need to be fixed before Sunday's game. I have a new pair of gloves, maybe my 674th pair since starting as a goalkeeper, so I'm confident that today was just rustiness. Also, Sunday will be the first match of the season where I won't be half-asleep and wanting to go back to sleep! Wahey!

I also got my post-Christmas smack in the Gentleman's vegetables thanks to a mighty volley. He didn't hit it softly either! I felt a bit sick for a bit, but I shook the pain away... No, wait... I caressed them better... Ok... I'll be quiet now.

As for the rest of the day, nothing. I didn't get a lot of sleep due to the fact of going to sleep half-drunk and, as I remember, very very very hot. Don't know what happened there, but I only got a few hours in, so I will soon be getting ready to hit the hay. So to speak. But not until a few more episodes of Mitten FM, where I basically improvise my way to ruining someone's facebook page with a random story from nowhere. After 3 episodes in 2 hours, it's already highly popular. YOU should check it out..

For now, though..

Laters x