Pinball

Another lovely day today. The Gorse Fox had football at Worthing. As they had run a tournament yesterday, the numbers were down a bit. This meant that we had to play 2 teams of 9-a-side as we didn't have the few extra to make it 4 teams of 5.

The problem with 9-a-side is that it can get a bit like pinball as the pitch becomes too crowded. When we assessed the teams at the start we concluded that we were going to get hammered. Having said that we did have a couple of decent defenders to play alongside the Gorse Fox. The first game ended 2-2, which rather surprised us. It did give some hope, however. In the second game we managed to win, 1-0 but it did require some fairly disciplined and frantic defending. The final game seemed to open up a bit. We scored and they drew level. Then the Gorse Fox managed to break through into the open space in the centre of the pitch. He called, the ball was passed to him, and he drilled it into the bottom corner of the goal. We won again. A good morning's play.

Back home we had a bite of lunch then the Silver Vixen headed in to Chichester for her hair appointment. This left the Gorse Fox to bury himself in the study and catch up a bit more with the admin started yesterday.

While tapping away the phone rang. It was Cousteau-Cub and the Coventry Hobbit on a video call. We had a lovely long chat and hope to talk again tomorrow when the Silver Vixen is available.