by Top Flight » 09 Dec 2014 22:55
by Cureton's Volley » 09 Dec 2014 23:12
by Winchester Royal » 09 Dec 2014 23:22
by EverHopeful » 09 Dec 2014 23:33
by tidus_mi2 » 09 Dec 2014 23:47
by P!ssed Off » 10 Dec 2014 00:06
by Ian Royal » 10 Dec 2014 00:26
by Harpers So Solid Crew » 10 Dec 2014 06:07
by The Real Sandhurst Royal » 10 Dec 2014 07:28
Top Flight wrote:
I took my 5 year old son to his first ever Reading game on Saturday. I want him to be a crazy Reading fan like me. Just persuading him to come with me in the first place though was a bit of a nightmare. He kept telling me that he'd rather play the match than watch the match. It seems my wife is fighting to keep him out of football completely enrolling him into Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Swimming. Anything but football. She doesn't want him to be a mad football supporter like his Dad. She's already thinking ahead about the kids future and is already working to prevent the same fate for his future wife as she has suffered herself by being married to me 'she's a football widow.'
She seems to have masterfully conditioned the boy's mind. She tells me and him that he won't be able to sit still for more than 10 minutes. She's got it in his head that it is going to be really boring just watching a bunch of men kick the ball about the pitch for an hour and a half. It's taken me years to finally get her to let him come and persuade him that he shouldn't listen to his mum and he might actually enjoy a live football match in a grand footballing theatre like the Madejski Stadium.
So it finally happened. His first ever match. Reading Vs Bolton Wanderers! What a prospect.
All I needed was just a bit of excitement, a few goals, loads of great wing play, some good chances created, a bit of controversy on the pitch, some atmosphere from the stands....... And what did I get, a nil nil. THE most boring, uninspiring zero zero draw with no chances created just nothing. How am I supposed to work with that? There wasn't even any controversy on the pitch. The ref went completely unnoticed for 90 minutes. Not even a bad challenge to get everyone's blood boiling....
He managed to sit still for 40 minutes before he started telling me that he wanted to go home. Half time couldn't come soon enough. Luckily half time arrived to break up the boredom and I took him into the concourse to get him a hot chocolate. He's five, I couldn't get him a coffee or a beer.
Unfortunately the hot chocolate tasted like absolute cr*p. I don't know what the hell they're doing in the cafe but scaly boiling water is not a hot chocolate. It was basically kettle water with a hint of basil in it. The kid didn't want the damn hot chocolate so I didn't want to waste it. I got him a twix as well since the hot chocolate was not chocolate it was basil. He enjoyed some of the twix, I had to finish that as well. I suppose Twix is quite filling for a small kid.
The second half came, and I got my kid back in his seat. If Reading could just come out after the break and take the game to Bolton and generate some excitement, get the crowd going, I might just be able to get my child into the Royals. But again nothing. We did ABSOLUTELY nothing. A couple of chances flashed wide from the Bolton wing men, but we did nothing.
Now my kid was getting seriously bored. He didn't know what to do with himself. He started opening and closing his seat and causing vibrations across the row. I had to tell him to stop because the vibrations was p*ssing me off. It was probably p*ssing off everyone down the entire row. After I stopped him lifting his seat up and down he just sat on it looking bored. Glenn Murray had a goal disallowed. That was confusing for him a goal but not a goal. I think it was for offside.
Then nothing happened for the next 15 minutes. So my kid started practicing his kick boxing skills on the seat in front of him. Eventually the old man sitting in front had enough of having his seat jabbed by my little kids prison kicks and turned around and scowled at him and told him to stop. This upset my kid a bit, no kid likes to be told off by a stranger.
For the last 25 minutes he just told me that he wanted to go home... I kept telling him that it's only another 20 minutes of tedium that you have to sit through. Now just 15 minutes of boredom for you to endure kid... Then 10 minutes, then 5 minutes, then that was it. It was over. He had endured his first Reading match
by maffff » 10 Dec 2014 08:42
by Pepe the Horseman » 10 Dec 2014 08:42
by madstadblues » 10 Dec 2014 09:29
by sandman » 10 Dec 2014 09:46
Top Flight I took my 5 year old son to his first ever Reading game on Saturday. I want him to be a crazy Reading fan like me. Just persuading him to come with me in the first place though was a bit of a nightmare. He kept telling me that he'd rather play the match than watch the match. It seems my wife is fighting to keep him out of football completely enrolling him into Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Swimming. Anything but football. She doesn't want him to be a mad football supporter like his Dad. She's already thinking ahead about the kids future and is already working to prevent the same fate for his future wife as she has suffered herself by being married to me 'she's a football widow.'
She seems to have masterfully conditioned the boy's mind. She tells me and him that he won't be able to sit still for more than 10 minutes. She's got it in his head that it is going to be really boring just watching a bunch of men kick the ball about the pitch for an hour and a half. It's taken me years to finally get her to let him come and persuade him that he shouldn't listen to his mum and he might actually enjoy a live football match in a grand footballing theatre like the Madejski Stadium.
So it finally happened. His first ever match. Reading Vs Bolton Wanderers! What a prospect.
All I needed was just a bit of excitement, a few goals, loads of great wing play, some good chances created, a bit of controversy on the pitch, some atmosphere from the stands....... And what did I get, a nil nil. THE most boring, uninspiring zero zero draw with no chances created just nothing. How am I supposed to work with that? There wasn't even any controversy on the pitch. The ref went completely unnoticed for 90 minutes. Not even a bad challenge to get everyone's blood boiling....
He managed to sit still for 40 minutes before he started telling me that he wanted to go home. Half time couldn't come soon enough. Luckily half time arrived to break up the boredom and I took him into the concourse to get him a hot chocolate. He's five, I couldn't get him a coffee or a beer.
Unfortunately the hot chocolate tasted like absolute cr*p. I don't know what the hell they're doing in the cafe but scaly boiling water is not a hot chocolate. It was basically kettle water with a hint of basil in it. The kid didn't want the damn hot chocolate so I didn't want to waste it. I got him a twix as well since the hot chocolate was not chocolate it was basil. He enjoyed some of the twix, I had to finish that as well. I suppose Twix is quite filling for a small kid.
The second half came, and I got my kid back in his seat. If Reading could just come out after the break and take the game to Bolton and generate some excitement, get the crowd going, I might just be able to get my child into the Royals. But again nothing. We did ABSOLUTELY nothing. A couple of chances flashed wide from the Bolton wing men, but we did nothing.
Now my kid was getting seriously bored. He didn't know what to do with himself. He started opening and closing his seat and causing vibrations across the row. I had to tell him to stop because the vibrations was p*ssing me off. It was probably p*ssing off everyone down the entire row. After I stopped him lifting his seat up and down he just sat on it looking bored. Glenn Murray had a goal disallowed. That was confusing for him a goal but not a goal. I think it was for offside.
Then nothing happened for the next 15 minutes. So my kid started practicing his kick boxing skills on the seat in front of him. Eventually the old man sitting in front had enough of having his seat jabbed by my little kids prison kicks and turned around and scowled at him and told him to stop. This upset my kid a bit, no kid likes to be told off by a stranger.
For the last 25 minutes he just told me that he wanted to go home... I kept telling him that it's only another 20 minutes of tedium that you have to sit through. Now just 15 minutes of boredom for you to endure kid... Then 10 minutes, then 5 minutes, then that was it. It was over. He had endured his first Reading match.
by From Despair To Where? » 10 Dec 2014 11:20
by Norfolk Royal » 10 Dec 2014 11:23
by Forbury Lion » 10 Dec 2014 11:33
Let's hope the Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Swimming don't turn him into a Wife Beater who is also good at Swimming.Top Flight It seems my wife is fighting to keep him out of football completely enrolling him into Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Swimming. Anything but football. She doesn't want him to be a mad football supporter like his Dad. She's already thinking ahead about the kids future and is already working to prevent the same fate for his future wife as she has suffered herself by being married to me 'she's a football widow.'
by Forbury Lion » 10 Dec 2014 11:38
by Ian Royal » 10 Dec 2014 11:52
by P!ssed Off » 10 Dec 2014 12:01
by SCIAG » 10 Dec 2014 12:04
Forbury LionLet's hope the Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Swimming don't turn him into a Wife Beater who is also good at Swimming.Top Flight It seems my wife is fighting to keep him out of football completely enrolling him into Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Swimming. Anything but football. She doesn't want him to be a mad football supporter like his Dad. She's already thinking ahead about the kids future and is already working to prevent the same fate for his future wife as she has suffered herself by being married to me 'she's a football widow.'
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