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Disappointingly, but not wholly unexpectedly, England’s football team were knocked out of the 2010 World Cup by Germany at the weekend. Despite being beaten by a margin of three goals, loyal fans nevertheless bemoaned the fact that the referee made an erroneous decision by failing to notice that the ball had crossed Germany’s goal line.
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Posted: June 29th, 2010
Categories: Technology
Tags: football, Technology, World Cup
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We’re back from Wales. I forgot to take our ‘proper’ camera and the one in my N95 has stopped working. So no pics – unless you want to look at some of the area on Flickr. We had a great end to the week, although Hannah and I were struck down with a bug almost immediately upon arrival and then it proceeded to rain for 3 days…

Before I went away I mentioned on Twitter that it would be great if we could have a Twitter Fantasy Football league. Low and behold, @damian613 @iusher set it up and @tombarrett texted me whilst I was away to say it was going ahead.

If you’d like to get involved, get in touch and I’ll send you the details!

Here’s my team and the standings after the first games:

Congratulations to Lisa, but there’s a lot of games left to play…

Posted: August 17th, 2008
Categories: Everything Else
Tags: fantasy, Flickr, football, league, soccer, Twitter, Wales
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My Dad and I went to see Sunderland vs. Arsenal yesterday. I bought the new shirt, and my parents kindly bought Ben his first Sunderland strip!

Posted: May 12th, 2008
Categories: Everything Else
Tags: Benjamin Belshaw, football, Sunderland, toddler
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I was at Villa Park, Birmingham, today to watch Aston Villa vs. Sunderland at the kind invitation of Ali Hall, a friend from church. The match ended 0-1: Sunderland’s first away win of the season, gaining some much-needed points to stay clear of the drop.

Below are some pictures of the day. Click on them to be taken to the larger versions on Flickr.

Sunderland are now on 30 points with 7 games left:

We’re not free from relegation worries by any means, but at least we’ve got a win under our belts and are not in the bottom 3! The final 7 games for Sunderland are:

• 29 March – Sunderland vs. West Ham
• 5 April – Fulham vs. Sunderland (a 6-pointer!)
• 12 April - Sunderland vs. Manchester City
• 20 April – Newcastle vs. Sunderland (local derby)
• 26 April - Sunderland vs. Middlesbrough (another local derby)
• 3 May – Bolton vs. Sunderland (another 6-pointer!)
• 11 May – Sunderland vs. Arsenal

Not the easiest of run-ins, then, but I’m sure we can snag 6 points or so…

Posted: March 22nd, 2008
Categories: Everything Else
Tags: Flickr, football, league, match, photos, Sunderland
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Along with other members of my church, I attended the National Christian Football Festival (NCFF) 2007. This is a yearly event organised by Ambassadors in Sport, and I’ve been for the last couple of years. As we’re a bit of a motley crew who don’t play 11-a-side together, we usually meet with somewhat limited success. In fact, the Fair Play award is the only award we’ve been likely to win. Things changed a bit this year though…

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Posted: July 22nd, 2007
Categories: Everything Else
Tags: Ambassadors in Sport, church, football, JJB Soccerdom, Manchester, National Christian Football Festival, NCFF
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