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Training on a large scale but some problems need ironed out.
July 22, 2008
Anyway I counted 78 Spartans training tonight including 7 keepers. That covered three adult teams and the U19’s although I think there may be two of them this season. Two U19 teams that is not two players.
We had a good turn-out with only Naomi, Struan, David and Deano missing. Naomi was trying to impress his dad, Struan was no doubt trying to impress some bird in Greece and David was also trying to get a birdie or two as he’s taking part in the Musselburgh Open this week. Deano I’ll talk about later.
Mike gave our boys a good night and thankfully I got to take part in the end game with Dougie on the other side. At 1-1 and in the last minute, an inch perfect free-kick from the talented though aging left back saw Donal volley home the winner with the last kick of the game. That’s me back to only 3 points behind Dougie again.
Bobby Dry was a bit down. He’s just realised that his beloved Spurs are just a feeder club like ourselves and he’s having electric problems on his olive ranch in Italy. He has people out there at the moment and I know how helpless it feels when something goes wrong on your property thousands of miles away. Still he cheered up in the pub when the Stella told hold and had a huge grin on his coupon when Eamonn came in.
Bob is learning Italian by the way - I wonder if Eamonn is learning Chinese. Someone I know who’ll be eating Chinese food for three weeks is the Curvaceous Bentley who’s heading out there to cover the Olymics’ for the SOS. What a lucky girl.
Donal invited me up to check out Barca training over his mum and dad’s wall in St Andrews tomorrow. The boys both have doctors appointments in the afternoon so I’ve declined. I think they are doing a session at 6.30 which Donal is going up to watch.
He’ll no doubt be checking if any of them put out a fag then nick over to a tree or wall for a pee before starting.
Finally Deano is off his work and missed training because he dropped an iron on his foot. Now he’s not sure if it’s broken as he tried to break it’s fall with his bare foot. The affected appendage is now as red as the top of his head.
Now if he’s stood side on as I’m trying to teach him he wouldn’t have had a problem.
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