'Football is almost like a wife!'

Monday 1 February

Time for the one month review. The challenge is still on. That's the first point. January was relatively easy to start with because of all the cancellations due to the snow, so I didn't miss football too much. Towards the end it got harder as there were some good games on that I would have definitely watched, for instance the Carling Cup Semi-Final, Nigeria v Ghana and Man Utd v Arsenal. I didn't watch one single match, see one goal!! Fantastic achievement.

Although I did feel in the loop a little more than I should have by picking up on people's football chit chat. However, I don't know who one the first major International Football trophy of the year. I don't know the Man Utd v Arsenal result 24 hours after the game has been played.

I was accussed by a reader, of knowing too much and seeming to enjoy knowing about it. I had to say that what I knew was due to people being around me talking about football as opposed to me purposefully engaging in conversations.

For instance yesterday after church every single male was talking about the disgraceful display of Nigeria and how bad their coach was in the game versus Ghana. As well as from the usual banter of the tactics being wrong and the player's not being paid because the money was used to pay the background staff!! One even went as far as to say that Football is almost like a wife to him and after the Nigeria performance, it was if she had cheated on him!

It gets difficult from here because I sincerely don't remember any of the fixtures from February onwards. I remembered some of January's because I always checked the fixtures for weeks ahead.

One new challenge, I've identified for myself is to do a course in Photoshop, so watch this space.