Winning Goal

Tis the season for football and as per usual Friday lunchtimes it was football with work colleagues. Always a good game it being five aside, well good game when it isn't raining. Thankfully today's weather was beautiful, perfect weather for a game, warm but not too humid. As always starts off with a nice friendly just warming up trying to score as many as possible.

To start off with I went in goal where I made a few saves but let one in. However, one of the saves was of a powerful shot which bent my finger back and it hurt for the rest of the match. Still hurts a little now. So while running round the pitch I made a few tackles and lost the ball a fair bit. There was a point where I was just spinning around with the ball and had no idea what I was doing but managed to get it out to a team mate. Plus side this match was I didn't injure my knees.

There was a beautiful goal by the opposition about half way through. Gentleman ran down the right no one on him and the goal keeper came out to the edge. At that point the gentleman chipped the ball just over the goal keeper, we all watched as the ball seemed to fly through the air in slow motion. It came down so gracefully and bounced perfectly into the left hand side of the goal. It was a stunning shot.

After the 40 odd minutes of a friendly, things got serious, it was the first to three goals to win. We started off strong with an belter going straight in, closely followed by another beautiful goal. The other team started pushing a bit more even having a few shots, luckily none went in. Then the ball was passed out, rolling my way down the center. I ran with it, turned, guy coming on the right of me, picked my right foot and swung. Straight as an arrow went down into the left hand side and scored, it was the game winning goal. I was so happy that of all the goals I should have scored that was the one I did.

Injury

Well as it is Friday, I played some football with work colleagues during lunch. Thankfully the weather was nice and a little drizzle cooled us down before the game but that was it. It is five aside and there are people in light coloured t shirts against those in dark coloured t shirts.

I was on the light coloured t shirt side and we started off with a bit of a kick about to warm up. Then we started to play properly, however this surface is not the easiest surface to stop on(or fall over on).

About half way through the game the ball was passed to one of the opponents, it was heading deep in out half. I ran for it, I got there and reached out with my foot just managing to pass it to the goal keeper then continued to slide. Down I went onto my hands and knee.

Now just two weeks ago I had reached a bit to far for a ball and rolled over it, slid rather impressively on my other knee and ankle and rolled and got up. This hurt a fair bit as the surface is covered in sand. This time however was not as bad, but of course there was the other player right behind me coming for the ball. Now as I said stopping isn't easy and at this point I had my foot out stretched, kicking the ball.

Well over he goes, me joining him, we all stop play and make sure we are ok. After a couple minutes we get back in the game then our team precede to win the best of three game at the end. I walk off with a scuffed up knee to match the other side.

I will learn eventually, got IT vs Foundation game soon. Should be good as me and a flat mate are IT's and my other flatmate is a Foundation. He is really good though.

As always thanks for reading.