I'm having a weekend off football. Mansfield Town having secured themselves a great 1-0 away win at Salisbury Town. I settle down in front of the t.v. for wall to wall athletics from the World Championships in Berlin
But what boils the blood sufficient to vent my spleen? The 20k walk!...........please......!!
It's not the fastest, strongest, highest. It's who can cover 20km the quickest without running. What next? The person who can throw the shot put without making a mark in the grass?
A season in non-league football
About Me
- Allessandro Pastarini
- This year I am mostly following non league football and more specifically Mansfield Town FC. I have a love of sport that far outweighs my meagre talents. I am one of the many millions of sport 'could have been's'. The world is full of people like me. Those who felt their sprinting prowess as evidenced by first place in the primary school egg and spoon race in 1979 would have led to a top level international career were it not for an incident with a slippery floor and an errant verruca sock at the age of 14. For the last 20 years I've played football twice a week at the lower end of the league structure. I've also taken part in a couple of seasons of village cricket, half-marathons and triathlons, never managing to trouble the trophy engravers. I have watched top class international athletics, rugby, football, hockey, table tennis and even stock car racing. This year though I have taken advantage of my advancing years and decreasing fitness to hang up my football boots and pick up a Mansfield Town season ticket. I'm pinning my hopes that non league football will be my sporting saviour
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