Was out for a run down the beach front yesterday and happened to run past the beach volleyball nets they have set up in the summer. One thing I've never understood with that game is the practice that, whatever happens, at the end of the point players seem to always high five each other. Find it very anoying tbh.
Anyways, this bloke serves the ball, over the net it goes but the bloke on the other end, for whatever reason, doesn't pick it up and it hits him square on the forehead and bounces out of play without him even moving. Now I'm peeing myself laughing at this and fully expect the bloke to be getting the p##s ripped out of him by his teammate, those on the side and the oppo. Instead, no one says a word but his teamate does the touching fist, well done, thing and they carry on like nothing had happened.
Got me thinking, (anything to focus on rather than the running) that had that been someone making a complete hash of something during a match would I have wanted one of ours to tear the player off a strip for being such a plum a la Roy Keane or to be the cuddly, touchy feely, Matt Holland supportive type no matter how stupid the player had been?
On balance I reckon I fell on the shouty, unforgiving side of the equation but maybe that was a reflection of the total absence of natural leaders on the pitch we've have for years now?
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actually I think that could become a new entry into the oxford english dictionary. to do a john terry, definition, to play away, to shag a mates girlfriend. also known as a " ashley cole or a ryan giggs " or would the last two go in a thesaurus?%~{>
Perhaps why Andy Reid was such a popular squad member.