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"The taking part that counts?"

I've joined a local football team. Just an amateur thing, not a particularly high level.

Thing is, i stink at football. Well, i'm pretty bad anyway. I've not played in a couple of years, which i guess makes things a bit worse too, but even in my 'prime', i was quite lame.

The first training session was today.

My motivation for joining? I picked out a fairly bad team (on league ranking), hoping my skills would fit. All i was looking for was a bit of fun, a kick around (not many people around in the summer for anything less formal).
In fairness, i'm not 'that' far out of my depth, and i will get better, but i didn't do anything that good, and made a fair few mistakes. And i'll definitely spend most of the matches firmly placed on the bench.


So the experiment - is it really just the taking part that counts? Or do you need to at least have some success for it to be worth bothering?

We have a friendly on thursday. I should get some time. Maybe i'll get a better idea then. Right now, i'm not sure.


We shall see.

6 weeks. At best.
And i have to wear a giant tubi-grip over my torso.

That'll take me at least to the start of uni, so there'll be no more money for me. In all likelihood, i'll now need a part time job while i study too.

All because i wanted to play damn football.

And if i'd bought the boots with blades instead of studs, i might never have fallen at all. Acually, i really don't know about that, i never played in blades.

Ah well, we'll just have to see about the insurance. £30 a week, not far off a couple of hundred total. Depends on the specifics of the policy.

Nuts to it all :^(

Winning isn't everything. If you beat just one person at something, then you know you're not the worst, and you keep at it. If you get beaten by everyone, you know you have some catching up to do, so you do it. Take arm wrestling for instance - I used to get beaten by the fat kids, that's how pathetic I was. When I tried again after working out, I found I could beat most people, and come pretty close to beating the people who were actually strong. Losing gives you a target to reach, makes you work harder to achieve the goals you set. Which is a good thing

OK, so I know that wasn't the point of this thread, but I thought I'd add it anyway, throw in my stuff so to speak