My son’s football boots. Or soccer shoes, if you will; “cleats”, they like to call them here. He has been wearing these since the Fall 2015 season. Prior to this he wore lime green Diadoras. The trend these days as you of course know all too well is for highly colourful football boots, often with crazy psychedelic patterns on them, and sometimes with a different colour shoe on each foot. It was nice therefore that he decided to go for a fairly straightforward black pair, with blue laces. These get a good run out too. Also, he has scored in every single game he has worn them, so far (that’s twelve games in a row now). I am coaching AYSO again, for the fourth time; this season we are the Green Dragons.
Speaking of football, what about Leicester City eh! Yes, I was in the minority hoping they wouldn’t do it, only because my team, Spurs, were the only challengers towards the end, but even then we will end up pretty far behind them, probably in 2nd, but hopefully not in 3rd. I am well happy for them, and despite Spurs having an absolutely vintage season in many ways, we could never catch Leicester, and they won it in style. 5000-1 odds! In April last year they were still bottom, but managed to stay up. Of course, I predicted they’d win it this year ages ago. Actually, no I didn’t, I said, in my blog post about the new kits last August, “How will Leicester do this year? Well, they’ll either stay up (happy Lineker face) or they will go down (sad Lineker face).” Which is close. Villa as predicted were awful, and I got it right that Sunderland would stay up, but I also said Newcastle would as well, and they didn’t.
Coming up are the “Euros”, and if I get my act together I will produce another guide to all the kits, along with predictions. If you don’t really like hearing about football kits, by the way, and follow me on Twitter, especially if you aren’t too into someone getting really passionately annoyed about a group of men wearing red socks with white shorts and white tops (England I am looking at you) I might suggest unfollowing for the whole month of June, and then following again in mid July when I start talking about sketching again. I have some things to say about football kits. And don’t get me started on the fancy fluorescent footwear…
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I don’t follow football – or any sport for that matter – but my husband is a big footie fan and he was, therefore, regaling me with all the updates on Leicester City. I do understand why their success captured the imagination. None of my three older boys are remotely sporty (though they are physical) or even that interested in watching sport but finally with our youngest my husband has a wee footie soul mate. He’s not that into watching yet but this will be his second year of playing. No matter how much I try though, I cannot get used to saying “soccer” or “cleats”. To be honest, when another parent says the word cleats to me I take too many beats to even figure out what the word is they are uttering.
Go Leicester! I was born in Market Harborough, so was rooting for them for the last few seasons, mostly just to stay up. What a season! Legends all!!!
I love your work.. delighted with your book, for inspiration.. but I have some problems with this whole thing as it’s evolved.. I mean, street sketching.
I wrote my thoughts on my blog. Read them… or ignore. I still love your work.
https://jacobrussellsmagicnames.com/2016/05/14/street-sketching-and-territoriality/