Let the Games Begin

I will admit it.  I’m a bit of a sports nut.  I do not think it is I am unreasonably one sided but I do enjoy watching sport.  I have participated in a number in my time.
I do remember the only goal I scored in soccer.  I was in front of goals and the ball came off the side of my foot.  It spun viciously in such a way it went away from the goalie as he tried to retrieve it.  I did not mean it but it was virtually impossible to get.  It ended up in the goal more by good luck than good management.
I played one game of Aussie Rules.  I could not tell you what position it was but I think it was on the wing.  Same for rugby league.  The team we played were easy beats really and I joined in the scoring of a try.  I know I was more inclined to pass than to run with the ball and I do remember my team mates encouraging me to run.
I used to play hockey.  I had a few teeth knocked out in that.  We had won the premiership the year before in a lower grade.  I thein went up an age.  The guy did not mean to get me but I was behind him and his stick and my face tried to occupy the same space at the same time.  Didn’t work.  Not for me anyway.  I was rushed to the dentist minus a tooth and with others broken.
As a result I had a plate with a tooth on it.  But I was a chronic chewer.  I chewed the tooth off and got another one.  I chewed that one off to and decided no more.  I thought it was interesting.  All the teeth moved across and filled the gap.  No one would ever know there was a gap where teeth now are.
I had my nose broken playing squash.  Mum said it was an improvement so one can only really imagine what it was like before.
These days I watch sport rather than play it mostly.  I really do not mind if it is top of the range or a lower grade.  If the opposite sides are trying their hardest to win it can be really enthralling.
I have teams I follow but tend to like winning shared around.  Like Italy beating Australia in the Davis Cup final.  I would have liked Australia to win but do not begrudge Italy winning it for the first time in forty years I believe.  But it is now our turn again I reckon.