Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Mimi likes football?!
Yes, I used to play for a girls' team when I was younger and was scouted to train a few sessions with Arsenal ladies at one point (though I was very young - 10 or 11) but I at that same time I had to choose between football and being a gymnast - the body can't develop to be properly suited for both things, and being a gymnast was my first love, and I also noticed that I did not 'like' most of the older players on the women's side - they were, and this is going to sound terrible - 'too boyish', too 'rough' for me. Despite playing football I was probably the girliest girl you ever did see. Craig has a couple of photos of me when I was younger, and I am dressed and also had the poise of a cross between a child from the Victorian age and a ballet dancer, but I was very quick. To my young girl's mind I was somehow worried that I was going to have to cut short my hair and shout a lot. How stupid does that sound? I just didn't seem to fit in with the older girls who I was playing the game with.
Anyway, so I chose to be a gymnast, which turned out to be wrong as I eventually became too tall after a sudden spurt when I was about 14. When i met with my stepdad the other week he said the only time he remembered cryng was when he came to pick me up from my gymnastics class with my grandad and the trainer asked me to hang back and told us that I would not be able to properly carry on training as a gymnast. I was going throug a growth spurt, I was going to be too tall. I don't remember him crying, but my grandad I definitely remember being very quiet, and buying me a milkshake, and not speaking. They then wanted to train me as a diver, but I saw a terrible accident at the diving pool (actually the same day that i was told I could not be a gymnast) and could never then bring myself to even try. Actually, I can't even swim now.
But I still enjoy watching the football. When my twin brothers were born one was caught by the evil Man U supporters at an early age, but I instilled in the other a sense of better things and taught him all about Spurs. He's captain of the under 15s local team now, and they haven't lost a match for two seasons. Their last win was 9-0.
When I was in my late teens I wanted to marry Ian Walker. Huh!
Oh, sorry, you didn't ask for my life story through sport, did you?
I should to bed, it is 1am ad I am blabbering.
Nighty night all x