<$BlogRSDUrl$>


Robber RabbitRobber RabbitRobber Rabbit

Robber Rabbit : The Scaryduck Brain Dump



Tuesday, May 24, 2005


Foot-me-don't

My tale of football injury woe, re-written for The Guardian’s Fiver newsletter:

Like David Beckham, I can lay claim to breaking a metatarsal in my foot whilst playing the Beautiful Game. Though I doubt Degsy's broken foot woe was the result of his attempts to buy a second hand Austin Allegro he'd seen in Thames Valley Auto Trader.

Desperate for wheels to impress a young lady (and boy, she must have been easily impressed), and lacking the funds to purchase a vehicle that hadn't been modelled on Jennifer Lopez's rear, I was desperate to purchase this particular All-Aggro. This involved frequent phone calls to the number listed, which always seemed to be engaged.

After a passable 45 minutes for my Sunday League side, in which we'd managed to keep the opposition down to single figures, I dashed upstairs to the clubhouse bar to give the phone number another try. Engaged, and the ref was calling us out for the second half.

Three-by-three I took the clubhouse stairs in my hurry to get down to the pitch, a very bad idea if you're in football boots. About halfway down, my legs disappeared from under me, and I went down faster than a Ruud van Nistelrooy swan-dive.

"Run it off lad!" said the boss, so I did, for about two paces before collapsing in agony, bright lights of pain flashing in front of my eyes. To make things worse, I got a yellow card and a ten quid fine for swearing (because it ****ing hurt), and my dad - a doctor of some repute - failed to spot the broken bone until my foot went purple and grew to twice its normal size.

I got a fat-arsed Fiat Strada instead.


posted by Alistair Coleman at 8:24 AM (0) comments



Archives

November 2003   December 2003   January 2004   February 2004   March 2004   April 2004   May 2004   June 2004   August 2004   September 2004   October 2004   November 2004   February 2005   March 2005   May 2005   June 2005   July 2005   August 2005   September 2005   October 2005   November 2005   December 2005   February 2006   March 2006   April 2006   May 2006   June 2006   July 2006   August 2006   September 2006   October 2006   November 2006   January 2007   June 2007   July 2007   August 2007   September 2007   October 2007   November 2007   January 2008   March 2008   April 2008   November 2008   January 2009   June 2009   November 2010   July 2012  


Blogger Profile
Scaryduck
Pengor

robberrabbit AT fastmail DOT fm


eXTReMe Tracker

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?