In my last post I spoke about the script I'm writing. The story is based loosely on some of the youthful antics me and my fellow football team mates got up to in the late seventies and early eighties playing for New Beach Football Club and how we are in the present day.
This a photo from November 1979 just before we hammered some poor team who had the audacity to actually turn up and play us... Yes, we were THAT good... So, these are the reprobates I played football with back then, went drinking with, nightclubbing, played golf, went to parties with, basically, we were all very close.
Even in the summer close season we were getting together for the afore mentioned golf days and lazy sunny afternoons in local pub gardens, quite idyllic to a twenty-two year lad back then...
Ok, now fast forward to 2011 and, believe it or not, we are all middle aged chaps with families, responsibilities, greying hair and thickening waist lines (me in particular) but we still keep in touch. We hold a "New Beach Reunion" every six months where we get together up in Leicester Square or Covent Garden, drink, get drunk, and play "D'you Remember" where we would talk about the "good old days" and relive the goals we'd scored (funny how once a scuffed shot from ten yards that just about trickled into the bottom corner of the goal ends up as a blinding volley from the edge of the penalty area and screamed into the net...).
Once the booze had completely robbed us of any coherent speech we'd then then go for a Chinese meal... Lovely stuff you'd agree but it's also to make sure that no one has died within the ranks and we haven't missed out on a massive piss up at the funeral wake...
This (above) is one such reunion at All Bar One in Leicester Square on a balmy autumn evening back in September 2004 and, as you can see, everyone is quite merry and total "bollocks" is being spouted by one and all...
Of course after a few beers we were always talking about playing a veterans match just so we can relive the thrill of putting on the old sky & navy blue, rubbing in the white horse oils (if they still make it), warming up (two days in advance...) and kicking off against appropriate like-minded opposition. Sounds great doesn't it? and we actually did it too back in 2005, 2006, and 2007 but that's another story for another post...
Anyway, this kinda gives you an idea of the camaraderie we all have within New Beach, even to this day, and it's on those relationships I've based my story on augmented with some of the stuff I see nowadays playing in the SBCVL for Wheatleys Veterans FC.
Right then, enough for today, thanks for reading this drivel and I'll see you soon (or maybe not...)
Luv
Woodo
Even in the summer close season we were getting together for the afore mentioned golf days and lazy sunny afternoons in local pub gardens, quite idyllic to a twenty-two year lad back then...
Ok, now fast forward to 2011 and, believe it or not, we are all middle aged chaps with families, responsibilities, greying hair and thickening waist lines (me in particular) but we still keep in touch. We hold a "New Beach Reunion" every six months where we get together up in Leicester Square or Covent Garden, drink, get drunk, and play "D'you Remember" where we would talk about the "good old days" and relive the goals we'd scored (funny how once a scuffed shot from ten yards that just about trickled into the bottom corner of the goal ends up as a blinding volley from the edge of the penalty area and screamed into the net...).
Once the booze had completely robbed us of any coherent speech we'd then then go for a Chinese meal... Lovely stuff you'd agree but it's also to make sure that no one has died within the ranks and we haven't missed out on a massive piss up at the funeral wake...
Of course after a few beers we were always talking about playing a veterans match just so we can relive the thrill of putting on the old sky & navy blue, rubbing in the white horse oils (if they still make it), warming up (two days in advance...) and kicking off against appropriate like-minded opposition. Sounds great doesn't it? and we actually did it too back in 2005, 2006, and 2007 but that's another story for another post...
Anyway, this kinda gives you an idea of the camaraderie we all have within New Beach, even to this day, and it's on those relationships I've based my story on augmented with some of the stuff I see nowadays playing in the SBCVL for Wheatleys Veterans FC.
Right then, enough for today, thanks for reading this drivel and I'll see you soon (or maybe not...)
Luv
Woodo
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