Warming The Bench

This weekend, instead of playing my football and just concentrating on my football, gaffer asked me to warm the bench. For any non footballer fans reading this, it means that you are going to come on in the second half and inject some fresh legs into the game instead of starting in the first half and getting straight into the game.

Because I hadn't scored yet, gaffer wanted to have a look at someone else in my position to see if they could offer him an alternative. I am an 'out and out' striker, which means that I'm a striker who gets out and out around the six yard box. Gaffer brought a new player into the team who is more of a 2nd striker and spearheads the attack. He did well and managed to knock a goal into the back of the net. I was made up for him that he'd done it, but wished it had been me, as knocking goals into the back of the net to put us a goal up is one of the things that I like doing the most. I came on in the 2nd half and injected some fresh legs into the game and managed not to score, but we still won the game by a couple of goals. This meant that I got a boss win bonus, but not my goalscoring bonus, because I didn't score a goal and this is the only time I'll get my goalscoring bonus.

This week in football, it has been fantastic for defenders in English football, because the England squad has been announced, for a friendly game against Germany. Because Jamie Carragher has decided that he doesn't like playing England friendlies, lots of defenders have the chance to get stuck in and do last ditch challenges. Unfortunately, others have also decided that they don't like doing friendlies so Steve McClaren will have to draft in some makeshift defenders to plug the gaps to do last ditch tackles and get stuck in.

I wasn't called into the England squad this time and I didn't get in the U21s either. It's probably because I don't do defender when I play my football and concentrate on my football and also because I'm over 21s.

We don't have a game until next weekend, so I'll be doing lots of training this week and getting recovered and getting my head down to force myself into the starting line up. I'll also be spending time with Roxy and the girls.