Similar thing happened to me. It was around my late twenties that I started to do other sports MOST of the time, rather than football. Try playing 5-a-side if you can join a team. Your natural fitness should be still around, it just needs picking up off the floor and given a bit of a talking to. At 29, you could either turn to middle age quite quickly or extend your youth into your 40's. Don't turn to mush. I chose swimming and sailing, btw.
Yeah we get mugged off in Aaaampshire. Oh well you can't do it for the money, as they always tell us.
Thanks for the advice. It went wrong for me when I had to move to Bristol. my work lot are more into cricket and rugby so I kinda lost my way. Just play darts and pool now, the smoking does not help (started at 25). I still look physically fit, just the legs turned to jelly when I have a kick about. I think you've given me a renewed optimism to find a team in dirty Bristol. The missus will probably thank me for giving her some Saturday free time!
Yeah "You're meant to do it for enjoyment, not just £'s" Fair enough I do enjoy it most of the time, but I enjoy it much more when there is cash in my hand after the game!
Yeah, I know how things can happen. even a small change in circumstances can have repercussions, and moving city is a biggie. I moved from the UK to NZ, though I've been back for 20 years. They didn't play football in NZ anything like as readily as I wanted, and although I played Rugby Union for a while in school, there was no way I was going to take it up as an adult with Kiwis as my teachers. That way lies hell..!
Must have been a major shock to the system switching to NZ. You dodged a bullet as an Englishman considering playing RU in NZ. Good choice. I should not really complain about Bristol. They play footie, I just need to get off my behind and find a team. I wear my saints shirt into my office every Friday. So proud of my roots!
Nothing wrong with Bristol. Good maritime city [although that's no seal], GWR, The SS Great Britain [sorry, I like boats and ships] and you've got Bath and Swindon down the road. OK, I should qualify that. Bath is unquestionably a lovely town, architecturely, and there's Bath City FC too, where our own Jason Dodd came from. Saying Swindon was just so I could mention that fact that favourite band XTC came from there [I'm listening to an XTC album right at this moment]. Yeah it was a near thing in NZ with the Rugger. But the Sailing was superb.
by deliberate, do you mean I try to think up of ways to put things? If so, no. I like to be to the point.
Completely different when romancing the ladies. I can be very well spoken when I want to be, believe it or not.
Where do I play? Wherever the 11th guy missing from the team plays. I used to be the one that filled in. I played every position but LB and Goalie.
I have been a fullback since day 1, normally a right footed leftback (it just seems to work), then after 16 I moved into the centre, purely because im tall and slow. Centreback is probably my best position, im good in the air and can read the game fairly well, plus i dont get skinned by wingers. Recently i have had a few flurrys up front, i have always been a regular scorer from corners and balls into the box from defence, the manager decided to try me up front, and although im not kevin davis, it seems to be working out ok; ill never be a prolific scorer as my only asset is heading ability, but im enjoying the freedom of playing up front at the moment!
