Head Space Daily Words...

Today’s words are again football related but if football is not your thing, the actually story is positive and uplifting, so read on. Recently, my eldest son’s homework was to choose a famous person that you would like to walk to school with and to write down some questions you would like to ask them. Whilst most of the boys in his class were choosing famous current footballers, his walk to school person was Peter Withe, former Aston Villa centre forward and scorer of the goal that won Aston Villa the European Cup in 1982. I follow Peter Withe on Twitter and managed to contact someone connected to him, to ask if he would be willing to answer my son’s questions. Not expecting to hear anything more of it, lo and behold, this morning I received an e-mail from the man himself answering all of the questions in full detail. An interesting response, which you would never get from footballers today, because they are picked up by clubs at a very early age and pretty much taken out of the normal social cycle, is that Peter Withe spent five years training to become an electrician on the docks in Liverpool, before he became a professional football player. He is fully appreciative of the fact he was a footballer and he rounded it off with a positive message for my son, by basically telling him that he will get out of life what he puts in. Not many people would have taken the time and effort to reply to an eleven year olds questions, so massive respect to Peter Withe – you will always be a legend in our household sir…