Sporting glory & a sign…
Posted by Fyse on Thursday, 30 December 2004
My greatest sporting moment came back in 1994, when I was the goalkeeper for Fleetville Junior School’s football team. (That’s soccer to Americans.) We had narrowly lost the league, due in part to some dreadful refereeing decisions, but we reached the final of the cup competition, eventually winning 1-0. I made one particular save that stands out in my memory, and imagine my suprise to discover that this pinnacle of sporting achievement has been recorded for posterity!
My old football coach has written a book called ‘100 Years: A History of Schools’ Football in St Albans‘, and features a brief account of the victory. It gets the name of a friend of mine incorrect, actually listing his younger brother as scoring the winning goal, but mentions that I “pulled off a string of excellent saves.” It’s hard for me to explain quite how chuffed I am by this, especially since this book is available to the entire world through Amazon. I find it unbelievable that what I consider to be my best ever performance in a sporting arena is commemorated in a book. I’m running out at the first opportunity to buy myself a copy!
Another weird thing; I got a hit to my website yesterday when somebody from the Bronx googled “blog about physics”. If that isn’t an indication of a market for my new project, then I don’t know what is. Unfortunately I really don’t have time for it at the moment, however much fun it would be. My good intentions for work have not yet materialised this holiday, so I’ve got to get cracking on that
I’m off to Devon for New Year tomorrow, so probably no posts for a while. Happy New Year to all my faithful readership! Both of you!
Oooh, fun. There’s nothing like seeing your name published! Happy New Year!
I don’t know exactly what “chuffed” means, but congratulations!
I agree with Kerrie. “Football” we Americans understood. “Chuffed,” not so much. Anywho, I have also been remiss in doing all of my needed studying. I will surely suffer next week when classes start….
‘Chuffed’ just means ‘very pleased’, and I guess you probably would have assumed I didn’t mean American Football. I have now got a copy of the book, which is a pretty pointless publication in most respects. Still, it’ll be something to inflict on grandchildren one day…
I will inflict many books on my grandchildren. Mainly by chucking them at their little furry heads. I will feel quite chuffed afterwards.
I was almost in a book once…
Were you, Joe? Well, ‘nearly’ doesn’t quite cut the mustard, does it? Careful, or I’ll be round with my copy of the book to make you read it…