Football In A Cold Climate
I'm coming round to the idea of a winter shutdown for the football season, having braved the wind-chill factor to watch seven different games today. The first half-dozen of those games took place at Ross County's ground in Dingwall which is also home to the . Today it was the venue for a sixes tournament involving teams from Primary schools as far afield as Invergordon and Portree. Zed-son was in the line-up for his school's A-team which made it as far as the semi-finals. He, it should be recorded, scored two of the early goals and had another spectacular effort denied by the keeper.
No sooner had the tournament finished (Balloch won it, by the way) than it was time to head back across the Kessock Bridge to watch Inverness Caley take on Dundee United. Compared with the drama and passion on display in the schools' games, the first half of the Caley game . We watched stray ball being booted into the main stand and another went so far out of the ground there's probably a Moray Firth dolphin swimming around with concussion.
It was so dull we began to take more interest in the press photographer on the touch-line as he downloaded his digital snaps onto a laptop and sent them off into cyberspace.
But then things picked up in the second half as Dundee United scored and seemed on course for victory. It was not to be. The home team snatched the eqauliser just four minutes before the whistle blew and, well, we all agreed it was a fair result.
We listened to Your Call on the drive home and I was tempted to call Jim Traynor and Annie McGuire just to bleat about something, anything....perhaps the weather or maybe the game of dodgems you have to play to get your car out of the Caley Thistle car park. But you're not allowed to moan into a mobile phone and drive at the same time. It's the law.
Besides, that's why blogs were invented.
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