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Willy Schoppe posted on April 18, 2009 18:19
Well; if you’ve just scratched your head and thought, ‘yeah, so what?’, you might have just outed (and dated) yourself as middle-aged European (at least British), who grew up with any possible paraphrase of the above and would think this a perfectly normal question... To my ongoing puzzlement this is not a perfectly normal question anymore these days in this otherwise glorious land of the long white cloud and you would be moderately to humongously surprised to learn how much talking you need to do, e-mails you need to send with carefully crafted wording and phone calls and txt msgs you’d fire off to get some sixty kids down the park on a nice day for a walk or a kick in the park.
Anywayz; here we were, sixty or so Youngish Yellow Tails with their tails up, Panthers prowling, Mighty Mini’s Gang mighty, Smiley’s Bunch smiling, Gunners gunning and Devilz devilish.
Six teams came together on a stupendously brilliant April-Saturday morning to play a blitz-tournament. Split into two groups of three with a round robin, a knock-out stage and a consolation final. All teams had a minimum of three games and the two finalists played four games.
A fabulous affair, loads of football, yelling cheering, clapping and a few tears to express all the highs and lows of emotional entanglement the beautiful game can evoke in all of us.
A total of 10 games were played and all teams will be the better for it next week when the grading rounds continue; what’s more though is the fact that all six teams have unanimously agreed that it was just a funtastic event to be had and if word of mouth travels we may well see a repeat with possibly more teams involved later this season.
Results, you are asking? Of course, there were ten results and some were close and some weren’t. But who cares on a day like this about the scoreboard? Unless, of course, you are a Gunner...
To all teams, their coaches, the parents and caregivers of the players, my thanks for coming, the many smiles I saw today have confirmed for me that PAFC is very ready for its very own official youth grade tournament in 2009.
–Cheers-,
W
(Devilz's Advocate)