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Aug. 26th, 2007 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiffel_71To Pease Pottage for the girls' last pre-season friendly, with Crawley Wasps. Pease Pottage was a proper football ground with a clubhouse - even better, they served Bulmers with ice.
A quick chat with Jodie, Laura and a couple of the other players just after we arrived at the venue. Jodie and Laura are going on holiday to Spain for a week tomorrow, though Jodie was speculating that she might never come back - "I hope I meet a rich man and marry him." Oh dear, that rules me out...
Thanks to a combination of holidays and work commitments, we had only one sub, Jenna F. Murphy's Law applied just after the half-hour mark when both Chantelle and Naomi limped off injured - Jenna went on, but that still left us with only 10 players. Not one out of Lisa or fans Rosie and Vicky volunteered to pull on a pair of boots and help us out :D On the stroke of half-time Wasps scored. Chantelle came back on for the second half and Hawks played a bit better, grabbing a deserved equaliser through Coops, but plenty of other chances were wasted and the match ended in a draw.
After the game lots of the girls piled into the benches at the table where Simon's wife Rita and I was sitting. Rita gave them maximum wind-ups, saying I'd been cheering "Come on Jodie" whenever she had the ball and "didn't do that for anyone else" (that was an exaggeration), but Jodie just smiled, said "We're well 'ard, aren't we?" to me and high-fived me. All the girls were very interested in my copy of Fair Game - I'd read it so was happy to pass it round the table. There was an article about the England players' preparation for the World Cup; Rita asked if I'd be watching the World Cup, and I said yes, I'd arranged time off work for most of it. So Rosie said to me "If England women were playing in the World Cup on TV and Hawks Ladies had a game at the same time, what would you watch?"
"I'd come and see the Hawks."
Next thing I heard was Lisa's voice (unknown to me, she'd appeared right behind me) commending me for being a loyal fan. Then she started collecting nominations for Dick of the Day. Penny and others wanted to nominate Rita - when Penny had said "Awright mush?" Rita had replied "What does 'Mush' mean?" - but Lisa said it had to be a player.
We'd had glorious sun all afternoon. When Rosie, in conversation with Rita, said she was all right because she had her Nivea on, I confessed that I'd forgotten to use any sun lotion and that I'd burnt a bit. Rosie let me rub on a couple of squirts of her cream.
When Trevor, whose car I'd come in, announced that he was off, I said my goodbyes to the players and told Jodie and Laura "Have a great time." On the drive back, Trev and Dick had a conversation about the sexual preferences of some of our players, during which I observed "Jodie's straight," based on her stated wish to marry a rich man in Spain. Trevor immediately replied "Jodie? She's as gay as a four-pound note!"
I reminded him of what she'd said about marrying a rich man and Trevor replied "I heard that. I was standing there thinking 'Surely not, madam'." He added that Jodie used to go out with Laura.
"Exes going on holiday together? Powder keg," I said. "And goodness knows what Jenna D [Laura's current partner] thinks of her going away with Jodie." Neither Trevor nor Dick had anything to say on that score, though.
Sweating buckets all evening. Got to go get a cold drink.
A quick chat with Jodie, Laura and a couple of the other players just after we arrived at the venue. Jodie and Laura are going on holiday to Spain for a week tomorrow, though Jodie was speculating that she might never come back - "I hope I meet a rich man and marry him." Oh dear, that rules me out...
Thanks to a combination of holidays and work commitments, we had only one sub, Jenna F. Murphy's Law applied just after the half-hour mark when both Chantelle and Naomi limped off injured - Jenna went on, but that still left us with only 10 players. Not one out of Lisa or fans Rosie and Vicky volunteered to pull on a pair of boots and help us out :D On the stroke of half-time Wasps scored. Chantelle came back on for the second half and Hawks played a bit better, grabbing a deserved equaliser through Coops, but plenty of other chances were wasted and the match ended in a draw.
After the game lots of the girls piled into the benches at the table where Simon's wife Rita and I was sitting. Rita gave them maximum wind-ups, saying I'd been cheering "Come on Jodie" whenever she had the ball and "didn't do that for anyone else" (that was an exaggeration), but Jodie just smiled, said "We're well 'ard, aren't we?" to me and high-fived me. All the girls were very interested in my copy of Fair Game - I'd read it so was happy to pass it round the table. There was an article about the England players' preparation for the World Cup; Rita asked if I'd be watching the World Cup, and I said yes, I'd arranged time off work for most of it. So Rosie said to me "If England women were playing in the World Cup on TV and Hawks Ladies had a game at the same time, what would you watch?"
"I'd come and see the Hawks."
Next thing I heard was Lisa's voice (unknown to me, she'd appeared right behind me) commending me for being a loyal fan. Then she started collecting nominations for Dick of the Day. Penny and others wanted to nominate Rita - when Penny had said "Awright mush?" Rita had replied "What does 'Mush' mean?" - but Lisa said it had to be a player.
We'd had glorious sun all afternoon. When Rosie, in conversation with Rita, said she was all right because she had her Nivea on, I confessed that I'd forgotten to use any sun lotion and that I'd burnt a bit. Rosie let me rub on a couple of squirts of her cream.
When Trevor, whose car I'd come in, announced that he was off, I said my goodbyes to the players and told Jodie and Laura "Have a great time." On the drive back, Trev and Dick had a conversation about the sexual preferences of some of our players, during which I observed "Jodie's straight," based on her stated wish to marry a rich man in Spain. Trevor immediately replied "Jodie? She's as gay as a four-pound note!"
I reminded him of what she'd said about marrying a rich man and Trevor replied "I heard that. I was standing there thinking 'Surely not, madam'." He added that Jodie used to go out with Laura.
"Exes going on holiday together? Powder keg," I said. "And goodness knows what Jenna D [Laura's current partner] thinks of her going away with Jodie." Neither Trevor nor Dick had anything to say on that score, though.
Sweating buckets all evening. Got to go get a cold drink.
