Racing speed away in confident win

I thought I'd write a rather tabloid headline just for the shiggles of it. I'm currently watching the Scotland Argentina match and religiously checking BBC sport's football updates. Ok so i may not be particularly good at any sport but by god do I love it. I'll watch any sport and do the classic British thing and usually support the losing side. As a Scot i tend to avoid my national team though, we're not known for our sporting success. One stat of many disappointing ones is the football team has been to the World Cup 8 times and without fail 8 times we have failed to make it past the first round including picking up the only team to go out in the first round without losing a game.

But I digress, a few hours ago the juniors (hockey team) crashed to a 6-1 defeat against Racing 2. To be honest we weren't brilliant and a combination of sloppy errors for a few players (myself included) didn't help. We started brightly but after an early scare looked a little rattled. They played it quite wide and a cross in and lots of movement meant someone lost their man and proceeded to calmly nutmeg me as I followed the play. The second goal wasn't much better as a cheeky tip in looped over my head and i turned just in time to watch it agonisingly clip the post and roll in. We conceded another before half time to go in to the break 3-0 down, it didn't look good either. Thankfully we finally found another gear after the break and finally started to create. Unfortunately I let the side down somewhat by getting megged a second time allowing one of their players to tap in at my far post, 4-0. There was reward for our efforts as Daniel finally got some good ball up the field and found enough time to square the ball to Matt as the goalkeeper charged, Matt duly slammed the ball home into the empty net. The game started to turn our way and we had numerous chances to score but they all passed us by. Then disaster, another ball in and Oli did well to just stop a tip in on the line albeit with his stick then his hand. Penalty flick....He placed the ball down, Simon's call of ready was greeted with a nervous nod and lots of excessive, erratic movement on the line...SAVED! Not a brilliant Flick to be fair, just off to my right and it was a comfortable save. From then on I finally started playing well with a few strong saves. It wasn't to last. I just got my stick to a hit on the left of my D only to look up and see one of their players slam the rebound home at the far post. 5-1. With 10 minutes left we surged forward looking to convert a second time, but they broke confidently again and faced with a 3 on 1 they could not fail. 6-1. To our credit we kept surging but it wasn't to be, the whistle went. Full time.

Hope you've enjoyed my report admittedly its blurred with story style writing and my memory is shocking so some of the details may be wrong. Just in time I've finished and Scotland have lost 9-6...bummer.

Hope you've had a good Saturday and enjoy the rest of your weekend!