Well from what I hear from a few of our members it has been a week of house cleaning (John Bancroft), mowing the grass (Mick Mullins) and hoovering the blinds (Gary Martin). The most impressive has been Fid who has gone back to painting (and I don’t mean the house). My thanks to him for the image that fronts this News piece – truly a hidden talent. Also heard that David Yude is OK and practising his moaning for when this is all over.
But what about exercise? I know walking football was our exercise but please replace it with something: run up the stairs a few times, do the stretches we used to do at the beginning of our sessions and if you are going out for your allowed walk do some of it as fast as you can. Let me know if you have any exercises and what they are or post them in the Comments.
A word of advice from Julian, ‘Make sure your car is parked so it can be jump started and turn over the engine at least once a week’. Good thinking. I would add it is also a good idea to take it for a short run round the block as sitting in one place for an extended time is not good for the tyres.
Here in the App some members are keeping their brains exercised by taking part in emoji quizzes and setting obscure footballing questions that others have to use their encyclopedic knowledge to try to answer (apparently Never never did score an FA Cup goal – if you find evidence to the contrary please let Julian know). I hope to post more quizzes to the Gallery area over the coming weeks.
With true diligence, Len has been trawling through various online media, mostly Facebook, in search of the early history of Leyton Orient walking football and so far has completed
2015-16 so check out the
2015-16 Statistics document under the paperclip (also in the Document area). The Clubs very first recorded competitive outing was in the 2015 GLL Games at the Copper Box – there are some familiar names in that squad. Len would love to hear from anyone who was involved with the Club back in the early days about your recollections especially around matches and goalscorers.
By way of keeping in face to face contact Len has suggested that those who wish to can use an online messaging app called Zoom for a group get together. Watch out for details being posted in an Event in the App where you can sign up to attend.
For those who took part in the ‘Name the Baby Footballer’ quiz the results are in:
Clear winner is John Bancroft with five correct (and one of them was himself) – this was probably due to John being the only person to return an entry!
Babies were: 1. Gareth Bale 2. Zlatan Ibrahimović 3. Ray Russo 4. Gary Lineker 5. Laurie Cunningham 6. Trevor Ridley 7. Alan Taylor (our very own) 8. Juan Mata 9. David Luiz 10. John Bancroft 11. Wayne Rooney 12. Lionel Messi
Finally, again with thanks to John Bancroft, this quote from ex US President, Richard Nixon on leaving office in 1974:
“And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember. We think sometimes when things happen that don’t go the right way […] we think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as Theodore Rossevelt said, that the light had left his life forever. Not true.
It is only a beginning, always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.“
Take care and be safe.
Trevor Ridley
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