Up and down

Since I last bloogered I have had a down. Then an up. I think tonight will be another down.

"I'd play George Jones at left back and put Capaldi in charge of the decks. It couldn't be any worse than Saturday's performance by the pair of them". - Bannsider

On Sat there I had the pleasure of watching the mighty Norn Iron (funny quote on main page, I have it above) take on the even mightier Iceland. Below are the current World Rankings taken from Soccerphile.

72 Northern Ireland
73 Moldova
74 Jamaica

...etc etc including duffers like Honduras, Oman, Uganda (do they even have a football team?), Cuba and Botswana...

104 Armenia
105 Benin
106 Iceland


So, I went along expecting a good game full of hard tackles, long balls, and dodgy defending. Not from us, from Iceland. I was however completely wrong. My prediction of 1-0 to Norn Iron was quickly dashed as Iceland had the game won in the first twenty minutes, before adding a third before half time. Capaldi was truly awful, constantly giving the ball away at the worst possible times, and any times he didn't give the ball away was when he was hoofing it back to the opposition defence. In the past I've been quick to jump to Jimmy Quinn's defence, which is more than I can say for him being jumping at the Iceland defence. Time after time we saw long ball after long ball lifted to Jimmy, and his feet were rooted to the spot. Changes will have to be made, though we're gonna struggle no matter what we do against Spain. I was present 2 years ago when we drew 0-0 at Winsdor, but that seems highly unlikely this time around.

Positives out of the Norn Iron game were pretty slim, though Healy, Taylor and Davis didn't put a foot wrong. Taylor could do nothing for any of the goals, defence were totally at fault. Stuarty Elliot played a good game too, even at one stage he looked to have picked up a nasty injury, but came back on with a tearing run down the left.

Anyway that was Saturday... Sunday was better. The mighty reedstar played a gig up in CFC in Belfast. And it was great! We weren't playing any of our own stuff, we just led worship, but the place was buzzing. Buzzing with the presence of God. There was something about it, probably something to do with the quality of sound in that building, but it felt so right playing there, was a confirmation that what we are doing is glorifying God. Sense. It's something I'm really enjoying, like a real purpose. Nice pic to the left, with Philbus looking deep in thought as usual. Robbie has more photos from the Summer Madness gig on his page here

So the other down, yea that's tonight when we get beat 5-0 by Spain. It's gonna be 'Spainful'? Bawd. Real bawd.