A goal on Father’s Day !

8am on the road for a 102 team football tournament today at Brockham 2013 Tournament.   What an amazingly well run event and many thanks to the organisers.

Both Esher U7 teams won all their respective 5 matches each with Thierry’s team, playing as France, scoring 15 goals and letling in just two. He scored a goal for dad on Father’s day and kept a clean sheet in goal.

The teams played were;

• Ockley Acorns
• Oakwood Youth
• Ashtead Colts Wanderers
• Shelton Athletic Sharks
• Brockham Badgers A

Thierry had time to enter a competition and had his shot measured at 56 kph ! Nice one son.

Tournament time

Thierry played in his first tournament of 2013 in the Esher FC 2 team yesterday at Staines & Laleham Sports & Leisure.  He was predominantly on the left side for the five ten minute games.   The team fared really well winning three games, drawing one and narrowly losing one.  Five goals were scored with only 2 conceded.

 

 

 

A first and last of the season

Esher Wizards Whites played their last scheduled game of the season on Sunday.   This was a real humdinger of a game, played away from home, against a strong spirited Staines side.  Esher went 2-0 up in the game but Staines mounted a comeback in the 3rd period of 15 minutes with the game ending 3-3.   The Wizards did exceedingly well given they had no subs to rely on in what was a six a side game.    Thierry played his part working the left wing and got a pin point cross in to create an assist for Luke to score the first goal.   All in all this was a good old fashioned cup tie type of game.    It was our team’s first draw of the season.

And what a great season too.  One draw and only one loss in a total of 20 or so games.   What a team !!   Now we’re looking forward to a few tournaments over the next few months.

Two goals with the temperature at minus one

Thierry scored a couple of goals in today’s 8-6 win against Old Isleworthians.  Esher played a team that continually pressured and had really great individual skills.  This was a result that was hard fought featuring another Esher 3rd period comeback.

The game was played on Astroturf in a six a side format over 45 minutes.  There was snow in the air and the temperature was below zero.  Thierry played on the left for most of the time he was on the pitch with a spell at the back.

Thierry’s first goal came from a cross from the right which he half volleyed into the top of the goal.

In the second period Thierry was on the left again.  He was passed the ball from just inside his half, moved forward and looped a ball up and over high into the left hand corner of the goal.  His personal goal of the season and one that we talked about all the way home !

From Around The World

Back in October 2012 we posted that Thierry’s Blog had attracted readers from 60 countries in the 7 months from February 2012.

Now we have the full years statistics and we’re delighted that readers from at least 78 countries have visited us here in the last 12 months.  A big hello to everyone and many thanks from Thierry.

Here’s our updated map of where our visitors have come from.

 

In fact here’s the full list of countries directly from our WordPress stats:

United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Spain, Brazil, Slovakia, Indonesia, Netherlands, India, Mexico, South Africa, France, Australia, Russian Federation, Canada, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, Egypt, Sweden, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iraq, Thailand, Mongolia, Jordan, Czech Republic, Georgia, Republic of Korea, Algeria, Israel, Finland, Singapore, Ecuador, Peru, Viet Nam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yemen, Norway, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Monaco, Malta, Taiwan, United Republic of Tanzania, Bolivia, Uruguay, Mauritius, Sudan, Albania, Japan, Moldova, Kenya, Serbia, Bermuda, Latvia, Colombia, Austria, Lithuania, Syrian Arab Republic, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Ukraine, Paraguay, Croatia, Libya, Greece, Benin.

Ice Hockey At Guildford Flames

Today we had a family outing to watch Guildford Flames against Slough Jets.   This was our first Ice Hockey game and the atmosphere was really good, created by a crowd of about 1600 people.  The four of us got in for half the price of a single ticket to an Arsenal game.  Food for thought,,,,,

The flames won 4-3 and man of the match was Canadian Curtis Huppe.

The Wrong History being Made

Thierry and I went to see Arsenal vs Blackburn today.   The day started well and we had a laugh having a photo done with a virtual Lukas Podolski.

Yet despite most of the possession Arsenal lost the game 1-0 and it was the first time under Arsene Wenger that Arsenal crashed out of the FA Cup to a lower division team

A bad result and we need to see a positive reaction from the team for the Bayern Munich game on Tuesday.