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Beach Football

Charlie Oakley | 20 July, 2010

Even though the weather has been awful the distinct lack of footie on the box and no school means that summer is definitely here. I say that there’s no football on television but I watched a great beach football tournament over the weekend. Kung Fu Cantona was strutting his stuff on the sidelines (I miss characters like him being in the premiership) and the skills on the sand were awesome! I tried training on a beach when I went on holiday last year and it’s much tougher than doing the same workout on a solid surface. The players in the tournament must be super fit! While the soft surface may test the stamina it enabled the players to perform every type of scissor, overhead and banana kick in the book. As you’d expect the players from Brazil showboated their entire repertoire of gravity-defying moves much to the delight of the crowd. Anyway, must dash, Albinus and I are off to the kiddies sand pit on the park to practise some phat football manoeuvres! Later … C

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