England plays Sweden today.

 

Our personal family’s world has revolved around the World Cup these last few weeks……………….I’m confident a lot of families around the world have the same story.

 

My husband, Paolo, has a personal family history in the world of soccer. His father was both a professional player and ultimately a professional soccer team coach and manager.

Paolo probably started playing soccer about the time he started to walk.  His nickname was “Chopper”……………..(?)…………….sigh…

Although Paolo was born in England, his first language was Italian because his dad was playing soccer for a couple of Italian teams at the time, before returning to play in England.

Sooooooooooooooooooo, you can imagine…………………………there’s a lot of soccer conversations and discussions in this household…………………….a lot…………………you just can’t avoid them…

Actually one of my artificial knee is as a result of an original soccer injury………..the typical knee, triad-injury………my cleats were planted……..a high sliding tackle from the “other guy”…………and Bob’s you uncle!

Hey Bob…………..how you doin’?

 

One nauseating memory of the event was the rifle-shot sound of my ligaments snapping…………

Ah, soccer…

 

 

But today it’s England versus Sweden.

There should be some good face painting.  I’ve always liked the Union Jack…………and Sweden’s flag is pretty.

All of Paolo’s cronies have convinced a pub to open at 9:30AM (?) because of the time differences from where the game is being played in Russia to here.

 

 

I gave Paolo a cute little stainless-steel, soccer-ball shaped flask for the occasion.  I’m dropping him off at the Pub…………………he’s not getting the car keys…

 

At the risk of being a smothering, un-cool wife———I thought Uber would be fairly busy today, and I was a sure thing…

A good time should be had by all………………………………starting at 9:30AM…

I’ll have the Gatorade and aspirin at the ready later on in the day.

 

My favorite player is “the biter”……………he’s not on any of the teams that are playing today…………but come on!!!!!!

Where do they find these guys!?!

 

Right now I can’t think of the country he’s playing for, or what professional team he usually plays for………..

But he’s a biter…(!)…(?)…

Really!

 

When in doubt, and the occasion arises……….he takes a chomp out of his opponent…………….with or without the accompanying fines &/or suspensions…

You just gotta love this game!

 

It’s a life-style……

Go England!