Was at a kiddies birthday party at Goals in Eltham earlier today and they wanted to have a penalty shoot out near the end so I volunteered to go in goal so they all got a go.
The kids were only 7 or 8 so I was quite happy to just stand there and wave in the ones that were on target and didn't just hit me. That is until the kid in the Millwall shirt stepped up, at which point I sprang cat-like to tip his pen around the post. The look on the little fellas face almost made me feel guilty, but then I managed to console myself with the fact that I was teaching him a valuable life lesson.
Is that bad?
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What was the life lesson?
There's a kid when I take my little 'un football on a Saturday morning that wears a Millwall kit and I've been trying to teach my boy to take out the Millwall kid for the last 3 weeks.
Bearing in mind they don't do any sort of tackling and they're both 19 months old it's taken a while but last week as they were kicking the ball around my boy ran straight for him and wiped him right out, the Millwall kid went flying and my boy carried on playing.
Was this wrong of me?
No, not bad at all...you've done the littel fella a favour!
'The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.' ~Antisthenes
Plaaayer, your heartwarming story brings a tear to my eye
He may have grasped the lesson a little easier if you had run up to him face to face and danced a victory jig, but maybe that might have been a step too far!
Keep up the good work!
Yes it is bad.
You have twatted him around the head as well.
But you did the right thing offy
Don't Goals provide some young underpaid lackeys to do this work laughingly referred to as "ball boys"
: - )