Sport

It was a matter of time before this came up. Now some of you that know me more personally will now expect about a page and a half of why I am amazing at football, my list of achievements and some form of widget to give me a digital 'High 5' For the last goal I scored.

However in an attempt to be vaguely modest and clever, I will tell a story in which I am not bathed in glory or running rings around everyone (in fact given my injury record, running around in general)


Oh if you haven't noticed by now, I'm not very good at starting these

But back to what I was on about, Sport

Good fun isn't it? Personally I find you can't beat a good bit of competitive action. I am hugely competitive, the only problem is following up that competitiveness with winning. This became horrifically evident to me recently playing tennis. Now I enjoy playing tennis, at one point I was ok at it, can hit the ball and win the odd match however my latest attempt to play was, rusty to say the least. I do enjoy sports and like owning my own equipment, however choice of said equipment isn't always good. Sticking with tennis, I own a tennis racket (quite fittingly) however the one i own has a remarkably small sweet spot, and as many men will know, finding a sweet spot is difficult enough when you are in practise but when you have done it in a while, the rhythm goes as well just can't keep the technique going to keep centred (Note: this may have turned into a rather long innuendo)

I will leave that there before I gain a reputation of being somewhat crude...


I love the anger that can be generated even in the friendliest of games. I like the idea of people playing that highly aggressive sport of garden bowls. I like to watch from time to time just to see the players running down the lawn after the ball, leaning to the side as if it were being played on xbox Kinect and the movement would influence the ball.... I have heard myself shouting at the TV 'well if you wanted to roll it more to the right then why the hell didn't you before you let go of it?!' 

Turns out everyone is an expert on all sports, the amount of times you overhear people in the pub talking about football saying things like 'oh I think Villa should play a 2-3-2-3-1 formation' which is fantastically expert sounding until you realise that it would require 11 outfield players, now I am no tactical mastermind however i know that using a goalkeeper in football is generally accepted to be quite sensible.

But I personally feel that competitiveness is a wonderful trait, sure it may take a bit more maturity to stop yourself killing people but the steely mentality produced by being able to admit defeat gives you a determination to never have to again. And I haven't in a long time because of it (oh well modesty fail)


Oh also Like me on facebook, in trying to become more of a 'brand' in true apprentice style, I am expanding awareness. 


Spread the word, I might just be encouraged to write more often.