Screw You (Mind?)

Perhaps an insulting way to start a post but really, that’s what I said to the team’s captain who called me up for the game and even told me I’m gonna play in it the whole game and just 2 minutes prior to the match he announces that he brought another player who’s gonna play in my place for the first half. I’m never picky and never want to start drama, so I agreed. But perhaps it was really wrong of me to do so. Because in the half-time period he said “NO, you’re NOT getting in.” and said nothing else. They were 2-0 down at half time. Right after the break they scored a goal to make it 2-1. It all AGAIN looked good but soon 2 out of the 3 new players he had brought were out of breaths 5 minutes after the break. They eventually went down 5-1 after some funny goals scored by a team which ALSO featured forwards who can’t score a goal even if the goal is empty. Then right after the 5th goal, he says: “Now you can come!” to which I replied: “No, thank you sir.” I usually wouldn’t call him sir neither do I usually turn down an offer like that, but the reason was that he expects me to pay full price for a match that I only get to play 7 minutes in? I’m not THAT much in love with football. Not today.

Then they continued on and on until it was 7-1. They didn’t lose hope (Wow, really?!) until they scored a goal which was really one scored by an accident. 7-2 and 30 seconds later, a mix up cancelled it out to make it 8-2. A funny game and also sad at the same time. If I had started the game, it would clearly have been 10-3 or something for the team. If I had gone in for the second half, it would have been like 7-5 or something. But when I didn’t go in at all, it was 8-2 for the opposition. There you go, captain. Screw you.