what have i become? why oh why did i choose to stay home tonight and make myself comfy on the couch in front of the tv to watch the football? WHY? gone are the days when i can blame my boyfriend - especially not this time.. he's not even in the country! im sitting here yelling things like "go eddie!" and "ball!" & trying to ignore my father's amused expression every time a comment like that comes out of my mouth.. "so you're a carlton supporter now are you juzza?" .. why do i feel so ashamed to answer this.. why do i feel like such a phony-baloney at my new found love? did i just say love? i did, i did! oh how cute eddie betts looks in his (apparently far too big) shorts & wow isn't carazzo a full blown Italian H-O-T-T-I-E.. you see this? can u see this? I know their names! I know their names!!!!
this is ok isn't it? it's ok to suddenly, at age 25, be into a sport that only 1.5 years ago i couldnt have cared less about? apparently talking about it makes for good conversation.. ok, i admit i have even proved this theory to be true BUT i have never been short of conversation have i? before i started talking to random guys at work about football and "how great carlton played on the weekend" i was great at making other random talk, so why do i enjoy flaunting my new-found knowledge so much these days?
so here are some random things i have learnt along the way .. you may find these juzzy-footy-fun-facts quite amusing actually:
- if someone is tackling you while you have the ball you must get rid of it or else the whole crowd will go crazy and scream "ball!!".. (if its always "ball" why do they never let go??)
- you're not allowed to tackle "too high".. this means above the shoulders i believe (so why do they still do it? darr.)
- if you miss a good goal you have missed a soda!!! (a soda?? try as i may i still do not understand why the word soda is used here?)
- sometimes you kick it through the opponent's goals deliberately? deliberately!! this i will never understand.. that could be the winning point!!
- you must not knock, hit or tackle someone while they're up in the air - otherwise they'll get a free kick.. (is this only when they haven't got the ball, or when they have it too?)
oh and my favourite juzzy-footy-fun-fact, which even my footy-crazed bestie didnt know... when a team gets a goal and then it goes back to the middle ... the ball guy can't do the bouncy thing until the flash thing goes off from the window directly across.. this means the advertisement on live tv has finished and its safe to resume play ;)
so in a year and a half this is what i've learnt.. it may not sound much - but for someone, like i said, who couldn't have given 2 hoots once upon a time - i think it's a lot!
go the blue "bangers" xO
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