It looks like I will be missing football again this Friday!

For all sorts of reasons I might be missing football this Friday, which would represent a third consecutive no-show. I was half-thinking about going out for a few sherbets with a mate. I suppose I have missed Spizz's deft flicks and running into position. Spizz does not stand in an offside position but leads the attack.

I am getting nervous about the Mourinho and Ferguson clash tonight. The wiley Portuguese has the bluff Scotsman in his pocket. Apparently, Man Utd might play 4-5-1 and I wonder
if Fergie will play Darren Fletcher tonight. The burglary at Fletcher's house sounds pretty terrifying. I think the police should give more protection to Premier League players, especially Liverpool who have suffered badly from break-ins.

I will definitely be back next week or perhaps this week if my mate blanks me out.
I am trying to get my fitness back and will be starting to jog soon. I am still worried about my right leg. Maybe next week I will go for a nice run thinking about getting some extra pace.

Sorry for the delayed blogs about Spizz!!

Since the New Year Spizz has been showing considerable prowess on the field of play.
Recently, I was trying to mark him but was too static and he easily beat me to score a goal. Unfortunately, the game finished 3-2 to them and my mistake was probably crucial. Next time I have got to push up closer.
Spizz has recently celebrated his 50th anniversary and mused that thirty years ago he wrote "Captain Kirk". I wonder if he will be like Giuseppe Verdi and create masterpieces in his old age. His football is showing no signs of absolute decline unlike mine. I am going to see a nutritionist and hopefully this will lead to more of an impact on the pitch.
No further news on the football tour front but we should take a strong squad. I am seeing myself as more of a substitute. I am thinking the Germans would be fitter than us generally and fitter than me in particular.

The Spizz Forever blog wishes Happy New Year!!

I suppose I suffered from a troubled performance over the season. In some games I did not pass the half-way line while I also spent an inordinate time in goal. However, Spizz has been playing well and leading the attack. He has often been getting a brace of goals. Spizz has also been looking trimmer, which has made him more mobile. However, he is still partial to the odd Stella and is over the moon about the performance of his team Aston Villa.
Probably, the player of the year is Big Dave, who often displays a few of the "Dark Arts" of defending. He is also a good exponent of how to play the long-range shot, especially when I am in goal.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to shed a few pounds and play a more box-to-box game, which will increase my enjoyment of the match. This is sometimes negatively affected by my over-long stints in goal (and I am pretty rubbish in goal). I don't think Gashead will give me a vets discount for me being over 50 but I might try and cut down the expenditure in the pub afterwards.

Spizz hit the post with a long-range effort!

It happened while I was in goal. Spizz suddenly launched himself towards the ball and the result was a surprising shot, which hit the post. Usually, the pop star is quite close to the goal so that he can stroke the ball in. It was the sheer distance, which confused me.
Luckily, I ended up on the winning side. Big Dave and Boro Dave gave our team the edge although Big Dave, an expert in the black arts of defending, somehow crashed into the Somali lad Nani and said play on. Also, there was almost a bit of afters between Big Dave and his brother Steve.
As for any trips to foreign climes, it has gone a bit quiet at the moment. I think we have been credit crunched and Mick has been suffering from a hamstring problem, so we have missed his cultured play. Plus, Mick is the only sensible one among us to organise a trip. I think it was Germany. The collapse of sterling against the euro seems to have affected future sporting relations between our two great countries.

I missed last week and I am feeling stiff this week.

Last Friday I went to a quiz night and this week I am feeling a bit sore.
It is on my side and I don't know why it is tender. Hopefully, I will pass
the fitness test this Friday. I fancy linking up with Spizz up front since the young lad
specialises in leading the attack. I realise that in six-a-side terms this
is close to goal hanging.
Anyway, I hope to be more effective than recently when I have been really
hit by my lack of pace. I also need to get into the spaces, which hurt the
opposition, rather than trundle up and down the right. There has been a slight
tendency for some of the younger players not to pass to me. Hopefully, they
will pass to me in the end.

I did'nt spend too long in goal last Friday!!

We missed Spizz's silky skills last week but we got up to twelve. Kevin turned up after a long spell away and produced his typical powerhouse performance. Big Ian said he was getting slow and old but I am giving Kevin over 20 years.
I played a steady game as right back and the final score was 2-2. Alan said they had the stronger side but Big Sam also hit the post for us. We let in the equaliser right
at the end, which gave us no time to come back into it. For their side Tony played really well and Steve had a strong game.

I had a bit of a boring game last week.

For the past couple of weeks we have been struggling to get numbers.
Thankfully, we have been helped by a few ringers. However, the problem of playing with youngters is that they show you up without trying. For instance, Sam is a midfield dynamo. Nani and Mohammed have got that skill, which we have long forgotten, of keeping the ball down when shooting from long distance. So, we have to balance the sides between the old croaks and the young blades.

On Friday, the sides were fine tuned a couple of times and I ended up in goal for a long time. I could have come out but it is not really fair for the youngsters, who are helping us out, to go in goal. Hopefully, better luck this Friday.

Spizz could not make it but the last game he played I think he got three or four goals. He is a real goalmouth predator.