Fulham lost 2-1 to Gold Coast Utd today. The second half midfield was Kelly, Baird, Andranik, Seol, which tells you all you need to know. A run around and nothing else.
Meanwhile, there is no transfer news.
I have two more working days before the 12 hour football marathon. If you are feeling generous it is still possible to sponsor us at JustGiving!
I have taken training inspiration from Milo of Croton:
Milo was a six time Olympic victor. He won the boys’ wrestling (probably in 540 BC),[4] and thereafter five men’s wrestling titles between 536 and 520 BC.[1][2][3] He also won seven crowns at the Pythian Games at Delphi (one as a boy), ten at the Isthmian Games, and nine at the Nemean Games.[2] Milo was a five time Periodonikēs, a “grand slam” sort of title bestowed on the winner of all four festivals in the same cycle.[3] Milo’s career at the highest level of competition must have spanned 24 years.[2]
Impressive, eh?
Anecdotes about Milo’s almost superhuman strength and lifestyle abound. His daily diet allegedly consisted of 20 lb of meat, 20 lb of bread, and eighteen pints of wine.[3] Pliny the Elder and Solinus both attribute Milo’s invincibility in competition to the wrestler’s consumption of alectoriae, the gizzard stones of roosters.[2][11] Legends say he carried his own bronze statue to its place at Olympia, and once carried a four-year-old bull on his shoulders before slaughtering, roasting, and devouring it in one day.[2][3] He was said to have achieved the feat of lifting the bull by starting with a newborn ox, and carrying it everyday.
Modern sports science has nothing on the ancient greeks.
Anyway, we’re playing footie for 12 hours in what’s likely to be rain, and, as luck would have it our team has been allocated pink t-shirts. So…. well, that’s just dandy isn’t it? All money raised goes to raising awareness about AIDS in Africa.
“luck would have it our team has been allocated pink t-shirts.”
My mind is now wandering to Reservoir Dogs. Good luck
Comment by Todd — July 8, 2009 @ 9:27 pm |
I think Paolo Bandini of the guardian is playing in the same tournament (there was something in the fiver about him playing in a 12 hour football tournament and I can’t believe that there would be TWO of them going on simultaneously.)
So make sure you give him a clattering tackle to let him know you aren’t intimidated.
Comment by withaplum — July 9, 2009 @ 3:47 am |
Have to love the pink shirts! My brother’s pub team has pink shirts – sponsored by Lovers Package. You can guess what they sell . . .
Comment by RobbySoundersFan — July 9, 2009 @ 4:10 am |
Modern hair farming has nothing on the Greeks, either.
Comment by nordy — July 9, 2009 @ 1:16 pm |