MSFL Football Widows: Part Three
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After your other half has been spending Sunday morning playing the beautiful game, what do you, the wife and girlfriends have to put up with? Bad moods after a defeat, a heap of dirty washing?
In the third of our series, Joanna Carr, wife of NWN B's manager Sammy, tells her sad story...
My football week officially starts on a Wednesday with football training. Why Sammy actually needs to go when Darren Yarlett takes the training I will never know, however doesn't stop him threatening those trying to wriggle out of it by being demoted to the bench if they don't turn up! The week then progressively gets more intense with the next few days bringing endless calls/emails/texts/bbm's to Ryan Glynne (co-manager) about who makes the team, who's on the bench, this week's tactics etc. Following this its calls to the players, about the latest team line up, this week's formation and details of Sunday's game. Lastly its calls to Jamie Cole and Dan Fox (NWN A) about B players joining them, who's got Brickett Wood and random forms that need sending off.
Finally Sunday is here and as usual the phone that wakes us up. It is either Ryan about new changes in the team line up, new formations and in-depth discussions about re-jigging the back 4. Or its players ringing about where they are meeting, what time (is it not the same each week??) or its Jamie moving players around last minute, taking players to join the A's. This is all on a normal day, a bit of adverse weather and these conversations are greatly multiplied with additional calls to Brickett Wood, playing on G3 as an alternative, (what is that anyway?) calls to ref's and opposition managers, all deciding whether it's worth getting everyone out of their warm beds only for the pitch to fail the key test and call the game off anyway!
Sunday afternoon, the game is over, now time for the all important post game analysis. So first call is to Ryan about the result (could this have not been discussed 10 mins ago when they were actually together?), who did well, who's on the bench, new tactics for next Sunday etc. Followed by calls to the boys and discussions of their performance, and how everyone else played, then finally on the phone to Jamie and Dan about the A team result and the B team players performances.
Finally I think it's all over, but how wrong I am. Monday post brings in the fresh football fines and suspensions and the start of another wave of football calls. And that's not all, now there are the calls to confirm ref's, lines men, pitches, double headers, David Woolf, random football meetings, pitching new potential players and many bbm conversations with the 'Neasden crew' to discuss Neasden even further. It's endless and to top it all off, he's got my family involved, not only does my dad's company sponsor NWN B, but this week he had the cheek to ask me if I want to become NWN team physio....really??????
**Are you a long-time suffering MSFL J-WAG? Send us your story and a picture to: andrews@thejngroup.com
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