Our works 5 a side starts with two wins and a loss and I hurt my hand making a save during our 6-0 defeat to OS2A.
On the train home I bump into Martin A from school who is slightly off his rocker these days.
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Have the day off due to bad hand and stroll down outpatients at Wally hospital. A nice lady wraps it in a bandage and tells me to rest it for a week. I could kiss her.
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Laz drives to Dirty Nellys where we bump into Martin B. He tells us that most weeks him Bill and Pete get invited to trendy house parties where they get stoned, smash up the house and fuck each others girl friends.
Why aren't we doing this?
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Decide my hand is okay to play in goal against The Castle. I let in four but we score five so no one minds.
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Laz reckons he's the next Sylvester Stallone so he visits the multi-gym at Abingdon Olde Gaol. To make sure he isn't the weakest person there he drags me along.
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We have been training with the Wallingford United chaps but they have had enough of us and make the Norman Knight players train seperately. We play them in the game at the end and we do okay, though we have three extra players but two of them are Barry and Vinkie.)
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I stick on my vote Labour sticker and spend the whole day trying to convince the fascists at work to do so but I'm wasting my time.
When I go to voter the people handing out ballot papers are wearing Tory and SDP stickers. Surely this isn't allowed. The Tory women sees my sticker and says I'll grow out of it.
The election is a disaster. I stay up till three to watch the results and we're stuck with Thatcher for another four years. Tony Benn loses Bristol East.
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We visit The Carnival Queen disco but there's no decent crumpet, (including the winner,) so we get pissed.
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Tony is leaving so we go to Cavershams for a jolly up. He says we can bring friends so I bring Laz and Perce.
I have a slow dance with Jackie then a more intamate one with her mate Jo ands things are going well and I'm being uncharacteristically smooth. Then our eyes meet and remain met and I go to kiss her and she goes to kiss me and our bloody noses bump. She giggles and when she stops giggling the record has finished so that's that.
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In 5 a side we play two and lose two but I limp off early as my ankle is fucked.
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I heroically hobble into work but I'm in agony and the girls insist I see the nurse. The nurse books me a taxi to The Royal Berks and after an x-ray they confirm my ankle is broken and has to be plastered.
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Hop over the Bull Croft to watch the lads train. Hadn't realised how pathetic we are.
After a lunchtime drink we set off for Woodcote to watch a celebrity cricket match with Terry Wogan, David Frost and Nicholas Parsons.
I feel very sorry for some bloke who we've never heard of who makes the mistake of catchinbg Wogan out. No doubt he will never work again.
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I'm waiting for Ian to pick me up when a sweet little old lady passes and asks how I hurt my leg. I explain I did it playing football and she says: "You stupid boy!"
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It occurs to me we haven't seen Struddie for two months and he owes me a fiver.
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