Head Space Daily Words...

The season for my Under 10s football team, in the local league, got underway a couple of weeks ago. Set up in their 2-1-2-1 formation (we are 7-a-side,) wearing their splendid green kits, I proudly yell instructions from the touchline. The fortnightly battle, when we play at home, to construct the goals, is worse than putting up a tent. For any regular readers of this blog, you may recall that earlier in the year I wrote about giving the players a custard cream at half time, as an energy supplement and at full time as a treat. Here is the link - HSD Words January 7th 2014

Sticking to this principle, we won our first game 3-1 away from home. Before our second game though, on the way to the ground, I popped into our local shop, to discover it had sold out of custard creams and I had to resort to buying the more expensive Bourbon biscuit (See HSD Image.). Although we played extremely well - the team lost 7-5 in an epic, end to end thriller - I wonder, if using a higher quality brand of biscuit went to the players heads, causing them to lose that vital 2% extra, necessary to compete at the top level of professional sport. The only way to find out is to go back to the creams. The lesson has been learned and custard creams will now be bought well in advance and not left until the last minute, making sure we are well stocked and that all runs smoothly...