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| The ball was placed therein, 5 times |
There
are days when you have some news, but no one to tell it to. It may not be very
important news, but you want to get it off your chest. I have this particular
urge to share after I’ve played football, and my team has won, and I’ve scored.
The
other night I played in an eight-a-side game in an outdoor league. It was one
of those dark, sodden, autumnal nights when you really question your own sanity
for making a 40-mile round trip just to play football for an hour. You feel like
it’s going to be one of those games when you get shellacked, and then think
it’s time to give up football for good. And then, the goals come. Your team wins
6-2, and you score five. You leave the field aglow, and climb into your car in
an unstoppable mood. Now all you need is someone who wants to know how you got
on. If you get stopped for speeding, you won't mind - you'll just tell the cop all about the game until he lets you off.
“We
won 6-2 and I scored five goals.” That’s the sentence in your head that you
want to
