Just been playing the weekly 5-a-side with work colleagues. One colleague, who has an amazing ability to wind everyone up everytime he opens his mouth, for the second week on the run drove me almost to commit murder.
He doesn't like football, never watches it, he's more a rugby person, which shows by the way he tackles - you would think every match was a cup final rather than a friendly 5-a-side match the way he smashes into people. Last week I was seconds away from going straight through his ankles with both feet after a rediculous challenge - I jumped up, ran at him but at the last minute thought better of it and warned him (again) to calm it down.
Tonight he decided he knew so much more about football than me (despite never watching it) that he could order me around the pitch and critisise every move. I scored 3 goals, and setup a few more (despite struggling with my Asthma - I'll blame it on the cold), yet every time I ran up the other end of the pitch he questioned why I was up there and not back defending. Possibly because I've got the ball, I've got space to run, and there are none of their players anywhere near our goal. We don't keep positions generally, there aren't enough of us for that - on the occasions I did stay back somone would run up the wing but had nobody to pass to, so the attack would break down. Then he kept asking why I was leaving the centre of the field when defending. It possibly had something to do with the fact that we had 3 men marking 2 of theirs in the centre, they had someone out wide on his own so I went out to either challenge him if he had the ball or block off a pass where he didn't - I think he would prefer that we all held hands in the middle.
I shouldn't let him wind me up really, I think I might need anger management.
