A Game for All

Its been a week since the match, a week in which I've debated whether to even post following the match, that in its own right is such a disappointment. Those of you that are not football fans may have missed it but the game was abandoned in the second half following some absolutely disgraceful scenes from behind the goal where the Yeovil fans were. We were a long way from that end and in many respects I'm grateful for that, that were a lot of kids around us enjoying the game. Yeovil were awarded a penalty about 15 mins into the second half (rightfully so) and the Yeovil fans went to real lengths to disrupt the keeper, it appeared this had overstepped the mark a little and the ref called for calm, the Haringey keeper was gesticulating to the ref about his treatment when a plastic bottle was thrown onto the pitch, it was hard to tell if it hit anyone although it was confirmed after the game that it had hit the keeper. That on its own would of been a disgrace. What followe...

Its taken a while to find the time to write this up, largely due to the fact its took me all week to catch up from events the week prior. I got one of those calls on Thursday morning before the match. I had literally just sat down at work when my phone rang, it was my wife, she hardly ever calls me when I'm at work so I knew something was wrong. JJ had arrived at school in a long paralysis episode and his sats were compromised. The transport team were administering oxygen and an ambulance was en route. As it was it wasn't that big an event in JJ world, he sleeps every morning after meds so by the time he came round from those he was back to his usual bouncing off the ceiling self. The bad ones he can sleep all day after. So whilst those calls are always scary, at least until we get to see him, this was a relatively run of the mill event for us. So much so I wasn't too concerned about attending the game though I did go and buy another rear view mirror so I can better see ...