Been watching this rugby world cup mallarky. Quite entertaining for a load of men with the wrong shaped ball. The commentator (common 'tato? no doubt in a sports jacket) has been speaking a lot about the return of the 'up-and-under' as a tactic. For the uninitiated this seems to involved kicking the ball as high as possible into the air and running forward as fast as you can in order to intimidate some poor fella on the opposing side, whose task it is to catch the ball and avoid serious injury- possibly.
I really have been trying to stand in that man's boots- staring at a ball dropping from the clouds, hoping not to drop it, whilst at the same time aware of the drum of the opposition's boots hurtling towards me, wondering what next...
Sometimes life is a bit like that. Brings a new complexion to the phrase, 'They also serve who only stand and wait'
...murmuring crumbs that may have fallen from the master's table
2 comments:
Steve,
when you say "...in order to intimate some poor fella..." do you mean INTIMIDATE?
Or did you see something intimate in the scrum which was missed by me?
Mark
i look forward to "the latter years" of steve moody where hopefully he will acquire a tweed jacket and a distinguishably large chin and become a sporting pundit.
hear hear (apparently this was at one time "hear him" but was lost over the moors and mountains of time by sloppy, drawling politicians)
but anyway: hear hear
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