Blofield United FC

Hello! I seem to remember a very disappointing afternoon against today’s opposition a few weeks ago; incentive enough, one would hope, for a vastly improved performance today!

Progress has been steady, if unspectacular, for the First team in recent weeks as the Beavers have crept stealthily into second position in the Premier Division behind old foes, Cromer. I know we expect to be in such a position after many years of success but (and I know that Paddy would confirm this) it is not easy to maintain the pressure at the top of the table with such unerring regularity. I’m sure Darren, Simon, and Chris are now realising the size of the task they have taken on, but at the half-way point I hope you all agree that they’re doing a pretty good job of things. A win today will hopefully tee up an exciting second half to the season.

Have I said Happy New Year yet? Is it too late to say it? Is it even possible to have a happy anything with all of the trouble that’s going on around the world at the moment? Are we even going to make it through to 2013, or will the world end in December as predicted? Apparently there are seven possible theories about the end of the world this year and here they are: it’s the end of the Mayan calendar on 21st December 2012; problems caused by a massive solar storm (according to a NASA warning); Nostradamus predicted worldwide natural and man-made disasters at the beginning of the 21st century; there’s a super-volcano that erupts in the US every 600,000 years but it hasn’t erupted for 630,000 years (it must be due); polar shifts and solar flares are also predicted by NASA; nuclear or chemical terrorist attacks have also been predicted to bring the world as we know it to an end in 2012; and the final prediction is complete economic and financial meltdown coupled with a world war far worse than those in the 20th century. By the way, did you know that today (Monday 16th) is the most depressing day of the year; hopefully this list will have cheered you all up! Just in case you are worried by all this, let me assure you that it’s all a load of old cobblers, well, apart from the last two!

I haven’t had to write a Ware’s World for a while and in some ways it’s quite nice to have some time off, although one of the problems is that over the last 4 or 5 weeks several people have said things like “that’s one for Ware’s World”, or “Jerry, that one’s got to be in Ware’s World”. The trouble is I can’t remember them all when I sit down to write it. Here’s one I did remember though – the saga of Martin’s missing wallet, which was DEFINITELY lost in the Clubhouse on Christmas Eve. I can, of course, understand Martin’s distress at losing a wallet with 100 notes in it, and fully understand why Christmas Day phone calls and trips to search the Clubhouse were in order. Even the following Friday we were all searching down the back of the sofas and under the tables, Paddy even waded through the dustbins. But on New Year’s Eve, just when we had all given up hope, the news filtered through that Maureen had found it, with notes intact, AT HOME! Wayne theorised that it was a plot by Maureen to throw us simple football males into turmoil and confusion, and in particular to get her brother to stick his head in a wheelie bin………..but I can’t believe she’d do that!

Three things to end with: well done to the Ressies for beating top of the table Hemsby 4-2; unlucky to the A Team who narrowly lost 2-0 last week; and Chris Holmes, what were you trying to strap to your leg at Wroxham last week?

UTB Jerry Ware