A win at last

There's nowt stranger than folk

BLISS and CRC, it seems, are not in European Championships Joyville. Less than enthusiastic, they are unable for some obscure reason, to set foot in football haven and let the rapture wash over them.

CRC: (After only the second game) How long does this go for?

Me: A few weeks.

MM: A month.

Me: A month, a few weeks, you know.

BLISS: There's always something. We had this in 1990.

Hold on a minute. MM was born in 1990. That's twenty two years ago. That was a World Cup year in any case, not a European Championships (that would've been 1992, when Denmark came from nowhere to win).

We've won a game of cricket

We're not really that bad. Over the years I'd say we were win a few, lose are few more, then we became difficult to beat and went up the ladder to lose some, win some, draw most. Then either some of the opposition slipped or some of us hit better form or both, and we had a couple of seasons where we won more than we lost, or at least broke even. More recently there's been bit of a slump. Fatherhood (precious years), fatherhood (new), geographical relocation (way too far every week), injury (achilles tendon), injury (head), and break up (back to Norfolk) have decimated the core of decent / better players available and left us struggling. Last season we drew a couple, lost the rest.

So winning today was very, very, sweet. Particularly against a good side we had to play well to get the win against. Particularly as some of them are spectacularly lacking in a sense of humour, some of them are below average in that department, and on today's evidence, only one or two pass muster.

Everyone chipped in. Considering my age, bulk, and adversion to running when I was younger and much less bulky that hasn't deserted me, I seemed to do a fair bit of running around in the field (thanks AD, G and DO). Bowlers bowled well, there was plenty of diving, running, chasing down and just plain getting in the way, from all corners. That kept them from running away with their scoring and then everyone chipped in with the bat (of those who batted) on a slow scoring, dodgy pitch against bowling that was at the very least naggingly accurate and difficult to get away, and at its peak (one over G faced) absolutely perfect.

Winning, leaves me grinning.

Football

Denmark beat Holland 1 – 0 in a shock result, and Germany beat Portugal which is a good thing because I like seeing Ronaldo cry and can't stick Nani (I don't like any type of goat, Ron). Every tournament has a group of death and Germany, Portugal, Holland and Denmark are it.