Victory!

Greetings from Newcastle, where I am availing myself of National Express’s wireless while on the train home from Nottingham to Inverness.

I was down for the annual Join Me bash, Good Good Friday, which was of course followed the next day by the titanic North v South football match.  And what a game it was – a nail-biting 10-9 victory to Team North.  Thrilling though it was, the hard-fought match was the usual insult to football, and it perhaps says something about the quality on show that all ten of our goals were scored by a guy recently out of hospital.

As for my own performance, I was inept, unfit and bumbling, with responsibility for at least a couple of the southern goals.  I voluntarily substituted myself as a result, a move which may well have helped seal our victory.  I’d love to blame my performance on a lack of fitness or match practice, but that’s the case every year, so why I was particularly bad this year I have no idea.

Perhaps it’s age…