Bend it like Bentham

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=4780&&cc=5901

(In case you're not in the know.)

Practice today was alright, but I arrived late because my shoes had broke the night before. I picked up a new pair of Nike Tiempos, shown below.

These are the spitting image of my new shoes, except mine are for a hard surface as opposed to turf. Also, mine are beige instead of white. I quite like both the look and feel of them.

After picked up my shoes, I headed to a nearby White Eagles practice. As always, everybody was scrimaging. About five people from the White Eagles were there, and they made up one team. The other team was somes guests we have playing in the Christmas tournament. I played on that team.

I scored a small bagfull (including one where I actually out-muscled somebody, which never happens), and eventually we did the typical "last goal wins" to finish the practice. One guy, one my team, got a moderately hard shot in the region, and went down. We finished the game, and as everybody left the court, the guy was at the shooter's throat. I separated them.

Then after, while getting dressed, the went at it again. I separated them once more, and told them not to back talk. They did anyways, so I gave up. They even wanted to take it outside. Jesus. I thought we were on the same team. I don't think they ever did.

In the shooter's defense, I think that other guy took it a bit far, and the shooter was just standing up to his aggresion. A general tip; never to beat the tar out of the team manager. I wouldn't be surprised if he were axed for the Christmas tournament. At all.

I arrived at the Team Gigantic game jut a couple minutes early to a relatively barren dressing room. We started the game with one sub, but our rank eventually grew. I ended up scoring on a pretty nice volley, but we still lost 3-2. Yet again, another team we could've beat. I came close to tying the game up when I held off another guy and had a shot, but my angle was too sharp and it was unfortunately saved. I had a really good game though, I felt that my vision for passing was fantastic today, as well as shot blocking. For the first time, I'm seeing improvement.

I think a lot of this is due to the amount that I've been playing, and partially to Fury. Those guys have taught me bucketloads.

Though I didn't show much improvement when I took a very scoreable free-kick and wasted it, failing to bend it like Bentham.