Postponed Due To Lack Of Players

So this evening was supposed to be football, but as you can tell by the fact that I'm blogging a little before 8pm, there was no football.

The reason for this was actually not the biting cold - at least, I don't think so. The day started with ten of us, which soon dropped to nine when Matt was stuck on the other side of London due to a tube strike, and Steve had a bad back over the weekend. Tom was also wavering due to wanting to avoid any potential snow on the way home as he has a longer journey.

So at 7 and one wavering, we checked that everyone else attending could make it. 4-a-side is just about manageable, and in the cold noone minds the extra running involved! However, two further people were selfishly off ill. A third had hurt his foot over the weekend so counted himself as barely a half. Discounting the wavering Tom, we were down to 4 and a half people.

Of the remaining, I was not fancying the cold, and at least one is notoriously unreliable. We decided that postponing the game may be the most sensible option. We'll see next week if these were genuine excuses or if it was just a fear of the cold and that all these injuries and illnesses have magically healed themselves in the meantime!