At the risk of annoying others, I think football might a better game than rugby: it's less reliant, generally, on mass and power than skill; it favours the underdog (through the relative rarity of goals); and therefore delivers greater surprise in outcome. And if you play, you can do so into your fifties - not something that is sensibly undertaken in rugby. BUT, man it can be frustrating, and Sunday morning's game for Aiden was one such - I thought his team were all over Tai Tam, yet they lost 2-1 largely (and given Ev's role I can appreciate how awful this is for the person in question) down to a keeper error, where one of the maybe 5 shots they had on target skidded on the wet pitch and went through their guy's legs. It happens. And what was the ball doing down that end of the field anyway? On the other side, the keeper had an absolute stormer (until having a moral failure, at any rate). Aiden hammered away, largely unrewarded. He beat defenders. He slid sublime in-box passes. He hit the upright. He hit the bar; and then their keeper cheated (the ball a full foot across the line, obscured by the keeper's body, grabbed, pulled in, unseen by the ref - and sportsmanship....? Not in football it seems). So that's how it turned out - but I got some cool pics:
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| One-two with his midfield... |
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| and letting go with a right. |
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| Long shot from outside the box - hit the upright and was cleared by a defender. |
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About to shoot with his left - love the fact that he can and does, this one victim of
a one handed turn away by the keeper. Some days you just can't win. |
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