Soccer Night!

[przed]

Today's score: 4 - 3 for the other lot. But we played a really strong game and we actually leading 1 - 3 for a good chunk of the game. We just had a five minute stretch where one of our less confident goalkeepers was in the net and our defence fell apart completely. But everyone still seems to be having a good time, and they're all coming along, skills-wise. Now I just have to cure them of trying to get the ball from their own teammates.

The Sweetie is taking his duties as bloke in charge of our player rotation very seriously. When I got Ros home from daycare today, he was obsessively going over tonight's line up, trying to sort it so the stronger players were well distributed, and the kids who will wreak havoc of the bad sort on the field together are kept on different lineups. He's so cute when he's organizing things.

Ros continues to be Take That obsessed, bless her. After we got home from the game, I wanted to check the score of the England v. Ukraine game before running off to my acupuncture appointment. (It had been 1 - Nil for England when I left work and then I didn't have time to check the score before we ran off to the soccer field. This resulted in the following exchange.

Me: England won!
Ros: Yay! Does Take That play for England?
Me: Um, no. They just play charity matches, kiddo. They're not that good.
Ros: Oh.

Comments

[soundofthesurf.livejournal.com]

Actually, seeing how England played last night the TT-lads (minus Gary) would definitely improve their play and chances of winning the tournament. *g* They're facing Italy next, and if they don't improve something they'll have them for dinner. If they do win there, it's the end anyway, because then we'll have to send them home. Unfortunately. *g*

I absolutely love how your family works. It is right that all your middle names are "Awesome", right??

[przed.livejournal.com]

Actually, seeing how England played last night the TT-lads (minus Gary) would definitely improve their play and chances of winning the tournament.

Hee.

I pretty much have no doubt that England will fold like a house of cards against Italy. And frustratingly, I haven't actually seen any of the matches. They're all on in the middle of the day here, which means I'm either at work or doing some family type thing on the weekends, and most of them are playing on a sports channel that we don't get. Boo.

Once England are gone, I will obviously be cheering Germany on. *g*

[soundofthesurf.livejournal.com]

Urghh, darn the time difference! You clearly live in the wrong time zone! Kiddo's right: you should all live in England!

And I sure hope you'll root for us once our friends from the island have (once more) travelled home early. I really thought they'd do better this time - I mean, they've got a right proper goalie this time! But, no. What I say yesterday was...underwhelming. But who knows? If there's a place on earth where miracles do happen, it's on stages of Take That-concerts and on football pitches. (See the link? *g*)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I want to see at least part of one game. So far I've just been following the live blogging on the Guardian site, which doesn't really give you a concrete idea of how the team is actually playing.

But yes, I shall hope for a miracle and then decide who to support if they come up against your lot. ;-)

[soundofthesurf.livejournal.com]

It actually is quite the same every two years: they've got all these big names, all of that talent, three lions on their shirt but somehow there's no real energy, no drive. They're their own worst enemy and it's really disappointing. But yesterday they were just bloody awful, except for that small moment of Rooney-genius when he scored. I'd love to think that is their strategy, but I'm hoping that every two years. When I see their body language I could just whack them! Ugh...

If it helps: the amount of cheating husbands in our side is significantly lower. (Nothing to do with the fact that they are the youngest team in the tournament, honest!) *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Now, now, Ros that's what Take That dream of while the fans are dreaming of Take That. :D

Glad to hear that the footie is going so well.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I think you've hit the nail on the head, there.

The footie is fun, if exhausting, which is what I was hoping for. The fun part, not the exhausting.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad the football's still going well *g* You and Sweetie are probably putting more effort into this than the various Euro managers - in any case I bet your players are better behaved! Since we've won a few Euro matches I fear a lot of people are going to get very over-optimistic about the whole thing.

And very much approve, of course, of Ros' interests!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Between the Sweetie managing the lineup and me trying to find soccer drills that won't degenerate into chaos when run with 12 6-year-olds, we may just be putting more into it than the average Euro manager. *g* I don't know that our players are better behaved, though. I doubt their manager has to chastise the England side for making mud pies on the sidelines.

I don't know that I'm ever optimistic where England's chances at football are concerned. I always support them from afar and wait for them to fail to live up to expectations.

Ros' interests are awesome. I just hope they are still her interests when TT are ready to tour again. (Manchester is the first city in England she can reliably name, followed by London and Sheffield, so she's clearly my daughter. *g*)