Snazzy Shoes, Soccer & Sport Relief

Blog: Norfolk Single Dad
Posted by: Eddie2sox Saturday 19th January 2008, 10:19pm
Last edited 19/01/2008 10:19pm by Eddie2sox

A fabtastic 27 hours with my little boy. Sam has new trainers, watched a football match, and entered his second ever Mile race!

A lovely time this weekend, starting when I collected Sam from school and our walk home was with his classmate William and William's family. Sam and William had a fine old time tearing up and down the small bank just inside The Walks, I ran on ahead with them as a safety marshall.

Sam was tired after his week at school so we had a low-key Friday night, and soon he was snoring gently, live and direct from the Land Of Nod. He didn't wake up until seven next morning! I wish I could say the same, but I had one of the most terrifying nightmares I have ever experienced.

Nightmare

For some reason I had been to China on some official job, and somehow upset the government! But now I was back in England (somewhere "like" Newquay) and having a barbecue with friends outside a local pub. There were LOADS of people I knew there, mainly English mates but some Lithuanian, Pavel from Latvia, and a few more cosmopolitan types from the like of USA, Brazil, Korea, etc. Someone turned a telly on and the Chinese Prime Minister (or whatever they have - it was a woman anyhow) was pictured leading a protest march against what I had done. A mate ordered a takeaway to be delivered. Then, on the TV, a correspondent said something like "There have been threats against the person that sparked this whole incident" (i.e. me). Almost immediately a scooter pulled up in front of the pub and an oriental looking bloke jumped off with a small package in their hand and made straight for me. ****, I thought, he's come to shoot me! It turned out that he was the delivery bloke with the previously ordered takeaway.Everyone laughed but I felt uneasy and grabbed a close friend and asked him to come with me and get away from there. We walked out of the back door of the pub and got into his car, when he said "Look there's Mo (our Korean mate), getting into a car as well. He's got a takeaway too. No, hold on, he's got a ******* gun! ****!" We sped off and sure enough Mo chased us, and all of a sudeen we weren't driving in the real world but inside a huge old house, for some reason. We drove to the top of some stairs onto a landing and Mo was catching up, I told my mate to carry on to distract Mo and I would hide. Unfortunately Mo knew exactly where I was and as I hid under another staircase (one of those with just boards and no vertical bits) he shot me three times, shouting "Kill kill kill" as he did it.

I woke up terrified and extremely relieved that it wasn't real. First thought was to check on everyone else, i.e. Sam then the bloody cat (!), then I had to go and watch TV for half an hour until I even half-regained my composure. Scary as ****.

I Put MY New Shoes On!

Since Sam started full time school I'd noticed a slight problem that nobody had foreseen. When Sam was at nursery he was always in "civilian" clothes when I picked him up on a Friday. Now I collect him from school he is in uniform, with no civvy clothes or shoes. So, rather than Sam having to spend all weekend in his school shoes I decided that he needed a pair of trainers that would be kept at our flat. Trip to Clarks, feet measured, and Sam picked some Absolutely Bobby Dazzler red and white trainers, that look more like something that Paolo Maldini would wear than a 4-year-old. He loves them though. So home for dinner before heading out to the match!

King's Lynn 1 Tiverton Town 1

Sam has been to a "proper" football game before, but it was 16 months ago and he didn't really care about being there. This time we went because he'd asked if we could go to a football game, and he had (well, so did I) a brilliant afternoon. We paid into the stand before kick-off, and after a trip to the club shop to purchase a King's Lynn woolly hat - Sam chose an England one instead. Sam actually took an interest in the game, and I'll copy and paste my two-pennorth from the KLFC web forum if you don't mind:

As a "nearly neutral" I really enjoyed the match today, and was as amazed as some of the other posters here as to how well the pitch held up. I guess dropping 2 points at home to a mid-table team will be used by a lot of people as "Webb Out", "We're @#$%&" ammunition, but that wasn't really the case from what I saw.

Lynn set the pace with two crunching "chase 'em down" tackles in the first 10 seconds, and the momentum built up by that eventually led to an early lead. Scored by a 1 goal a year man apparently, but he finished it off brilliantly. Apart from one incident when Warren was turned, left for dead, but helped out by the goalie, the first half was one way traffic, as the two bookings for Tiverton defenders serve to illustrate. I have seen hundreds of games in my time and was fully expecting a halftime lead of at least 2 goals, should have been more. The crossing from both Francis AND Frew (who was skinning their number 3 every time thanks to lots of clever passes between the full back and centre back for him to run on to) was almost always superb, and needed someone to do an Andy Gray and GAAAAMBLE, sliding in on their ass with their foot stuck out. That "gambler" would have had a hat-trick by the interval! I don't think Defty is anywhere near mobile enough to even attempt that kind of thing. Talking of Defty, I last saw him against Corby when they lost 0-1, and thought he looked chunky, yet people said he'd slimmed down - well today I think he's added some timber back on. Not that I can comment really, being a self-confessed lard-ass.

The second half was better for Tiverton, I guess they got a bollocking after their woeful performance before the break. Skippy had a half-decent game, despite looking frozen solid and wearing girlie gloves. It was 80% Lynn on the attack, but I missed the visitor's goal when I had to take 2-Sox Junior to answer the call of nature (sorry to anyone in the stand who we made stand up 2 or 3 times today). In the last quarter there were chances galore, which definitely made me think that this team needs a QUALITY striker to finish off all the good approach work. Nolan did come on but looked ineffective to me.

In summary, I really enjoyed the game! So did 2-Sox Junior to some extent, although being just 4 he didn't pay full attention for the whole 90 minutes. But he's asked to go again, so maybe there's a new Linnet in the making.

Francis - runs brilliantly with the ball, tricky and a lot faster than he appears.
Defty - too beefy, not mobile enough. Maybe reducing one will increase the other?
Warren - 2-Sox Junior enjoyed calling him Baldy McWazza for some reason, he didn't get it from me!
Frew - had the beating of the left back and got him booked, but his tumbles were a tad theatrical.

£11 well spent!

We carried on having fun on the way home with running races, comedy hat-pulling, and dancing, and then all too soon the dreaded time arrived once more. Time to go back to Mummy's.

Sport Relief

As a blatant plug, please take a look at Sam's Sport Relief sponsorship page, and if you can spare a bob or two, please do! We're running at 10 a.m. on Sunday March 16th in Norwich. The web address is:

http://www.mysportrelief.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=20858

The Final Word On A Good Weekend

It doesn't matter how great the time together is. When you leave your home laughing and joking with your son, and then return 20 minutes later alone, in silence, with just their coat and a pair of shoes, it's still utterly heart-breaking. Luv ya Sam xx

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