Desire, passion, composure, skill, goals and brilliant teamwork were some of the traits I witnessed on Monday night, in what can only be described as the most breath-taking hour of football I’ve seen in a long time.
Unfortunately, I’m not talking about England, I am in fact taking about our weekly 5-a-side session, in which my team were battered 16-6. So what I hear you say, my point here is we would rather play football than actually watch an England friendly.
But, lets not get to down, we’ll be back next week for revenge and will hopefully turn that defeat into a victory.
I got home just in time for the end of the England v Mexico match, only to hear the same old clichés from the pundits and radio presenters, ‘a win is a win’, ‘we can take some positives from the game’. Bore off; I watched the highlights and Mexico out passed us, which seems to happen every time we play. What happened to Capello’s philosophy of keeping the ball for longer periods?
I do confess, I’m England cynic, I’ve been here so many times before, I’ve shed too many tears, and wasted too much emotion only to be gloriously let down time and time again. I fully expect us to get the quarter finals but no further.
The inquest of why we didn’t make the semi finals will once again be mentioned, lack of grass roots funding and coaching will of course be blamed too, but the truth of the matter is, I don’t think we are, or will ever be good enough to win a major tournament.
As for my 5-a-side team, we’ll never be good enough to win anything, but we’ll always play with composure, desire and heart. Something the England team could learn from us.
