Thursday 24 May 2012
Perfect Day - York City play-off final 2012
What a couple of weeks for our local football club, York City - first a trip to Wembley to win the FA Trophy, then a week later back to Wembley for the play-off finals, and a 2-1 win over Luton Town means they're back in the Football league!
We went to Wembley for the play-off final, and what a fantastic day we had - it was a chilly overcast day, but the atmosphere was great, and the result even better. Luton scored in the first couple of minutes, but we weren't giving up, and a couple of (slightly off-side...) goals later, York were celebrating in style!
Here's a video of our day out - one version to music, and another with the boys narrating....
Friday 11 May 2012
Stronger | Seattle Childrens Hospital
My older son is learning this song - "Stronger" by Kelly Clarkson - with his band at the moment. We came across this video on youtube - a poignant, inspirational and uplifting lipsync version by the children in the haematology / oncology unit at Seattle Children's Hospital.
As my son said "it makes me think how lucky I am that I don't have cancer, but they show how you can have fun even when things seem bad"
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Wembley here we come!
So our local football club, York City, is at Wembley twice in 2 weeks! This weekend it's the FA Trophy final against Newport, and on 20th May it's the play-off final, against Luton.
We're going to the play-off final, and the kids can't wait - we went 3 years ago when they lost to Stevenage and the atmosphere was fantastic despite being on the losing side. Hopefully we'll win this year, I think we're due some luck - having been the losing side against Oxford too last year. The only problem for me will be that if York are promoted into the Football League then my annual chance to Cambridge United (my team) locally will have gone. So our tickets and train tickets are booked - a great end to the season. Of course the kids still have some football to play too - an all day tournament this Saturday and another in a few weeks. My older son's team (U10s) came runners up in their league - so no doubt we'll be at the award ceremony for that - and he got "Manager's Player of the Year" award too, so a good season all round! sometimes I think that the "close season" is but a myth however!
We're going to the play-off final, and the kids can't wait - we went 3 years ago when they lost to Stevenage and the atmosphere was fantastic despite being on the losing side. Hopefully we'll win this year, I think we're due some luck - having been the losing side against Oxford too last year. The only problem for me will be that if York are promoted into the Football League then my annual chance to Cambridge United (my team) locally will have gone. So our tickets and train tickets are booked - a great end to the season. Of course the kids still have some football to play too - an all day tournament this Saturday and another in a few weeks. My older son's team (U10s) came runners up in their league - so no doubt we'll be at the award ceremony for that - and he got "Manager's Player of the Year" award too, so a good season all round! sometimes I think that the "close season" is but a myth however!
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