Tuesday, 5 December 2006

Little football and something else

Another day and still thinking about the game on Sunday, but it is starting ti get weaker thoughts where as next Sundays game is coming into it more. You play around with your team formation in your head, then have a doodle on a pad, and re jig the team and at the moment the team looks like something like it has never before, so who knows where each player will be playing Sunday.

Anyway the other point (political), I heard briefly regarding the money going into dancing classes for people who choose to be over weight. Preventative measures are great and I am 100% all for it, take the strain of the NHS in the long run. Get people dancing and being fit, however I can't help that the government who has stopped competitiveness in school have shot themselves in the foot. I will ask todays adults to think of their junior school and what they did, for instance I personally from 1st Year (y3) played for the school football team and did all the way to 4th year (y6). There were two teams a and B and a competitive league every year. I played cricket for the school and did x country for the school, I also swam. This was against other schools on top of this we also had in school challenges for house points where I did all the same again. On moving to senior school, I played football, rugby and carried on swimming and then when swimming stood out as the sport I was good at, I did swimming and water polo as well as x country for the school and a bit of football. People reading that are thinking yes we did that, the women probably did netball and went onto seniors to do the same. So why isn't the extra cash going into schools for after school clubs getting competitions up and running again, my daughter does Trampolining and it costs £9, so there is no help for the ones willing to stay fit and keep their kids energetic. All kids go to school and if there are facilities and activities the ones who are from a deprived background will be equal to everyone and get to do sports they wouldn't normally do. I bet there are a few diamonds in there as well. So once again the welfare state dishes out the money in areas where the government has failed when it is far easier to go to the place where all kids are and that is at school.
Schools could form partnerships with other local clubs, Getting the kids to learn different sports, the clubs benefit from potential new kids joining there club and the kids and school all benefit.

Sorry but a very easy solution and once again the government are tring to buy votes from those who don't go out and vote and have done nothing which the people think would be good.

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