Anyway, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of the BHFC fans for their touchline support, kind posts and letters of encouragement. It may sound like a bit of a cliche, but me and the boys really couldn’t have done it without you! I had also better take this opportunity to thank all of the mums and dads that have helped to cart us all around and to our PE teachers for coaching us to victory!

Finally, if you’ve only followed BHFC online, you can get the detailed lowdown on the team’s performance on and off the pitch in the three BHFC books. You can buy them from all good bookshops or can order them online (via the link on this site) or from the usual online retail suspects.

This will be my final blog of the season, as I’ve got exams to swot up for (aaarrghh). Catch you all next season!

Best
Charlie

For starters, we definitely deserved a penalty when Woodward was scythed to the ground. Second, St Paul’s winning goal was a mile offside! When you’re playing a team that is as good as St Paul’s you really need a bit of luck. Unfortunately, the only luck we got was of the bad variety!

Being knocked out of the cup has opened my eyes to how bad it must be for the pros when they get knocked out in the final stages of major competitions. Imagine going to Wembley to play in the FA Cup final and coming away with nothing! It’s also made me nervous about the boxing championship finals. I cannot imagine anything other than walking away with the belt. I need to keep my thoughts focused – if you get ‘the fear’ in the boxing game you’re stuffed!

Anyway, I hope that the climax to our league season will yield a bit of silverware to make up for the cup!

Catch y’all later.

Still, as Mr Mansell said, we have to pick ourselves up and concentrate on the league now. We are still in with a definite shout of winning the league and it would be awful if we failed to get something out of this season. Reaching the semis of the cup and being in a position to win the league would have seemed like a dream come true at Christmas. I just hope that we don’t stuff it up this time.

C

Keep checking to site over the next week. Mitzi is trying to persuade Mr Reeves to let her borrow some of the media kit so that she can produce a podcast of interviews with the players (very road to Wembley!). If she manages to blag the recording stuff there will be a podcast on the site in the next couple of days – just hope that we don’t lose!

Anyway, must dash as I have a pre-match training session to attend.

C

Anyway, even without my talents, the boys are doing incredibly well (starting to worry about my spot in the team!) and we are definitely in with a real chance of winning the league!

Come on Bridgewood!!!!!!!!! Divsion Two beckons!

The situation has been made worse due to the refurb’ that is going on at the gym at the moment. It has only been closed for three days, and there’s still a week and half to go – aaaarrrghhh! Up until now I don’t think that I appreciated the fact that I am a gym addict (minus the lycra, fake tan etc)!

March is always an odd time of the year for me. Christmas was yonks ago, my birthday is light years away and even the prospect of snaffling some Easter eggs seems far off on the horizon (mum reckons that I’m too old for Easter eggs, so I may only have a burnt hot cross bun to look forward to this year – oh the horror!!).

Of course, the Charlie that you all know and love doesn’t usually suffer with being down in the dumps, but hey, I’m only human! Anyway, I’m off to the park for a jog before it gets dark, perhaps a quick spot of exercise will transform my mood!

C

Anyway, I’m going to throw caution to wind and invite all of your opinions on this highly topical and controversial talking point.

Catch y’all later

C

Now I appreciate that listening to your dad’s CD collection is not the coolest thing in the world (was really, really bored), but it turns out that my dad has very good music taste and then some! Of course, there is a fair amount of rubbish in his collection (there really is no excuse for Bryan Adams and Spandau Ballet), but I unearthed some real gems. From Nirvana and the Slick Rick to Underworld and the Prodigy my old man obviously used to like banging tunes!

I’ve loaded a lot of the tracks onto my MP3 player and plan to quiz pops about his youth. Perhaps he wasn’t as boring as I’d imagined!

C

After the training session the coach spent a lot of time talking about the dedication that is required to make it as a professional footballer. I may be paranoid, but I am sure that a lot of the conversation was being directed at me due to my love of the fight game. It will be a hard decision to make if I am forced to choose between boxing and football – especially with the Olympics on the horizon.

Anyway, can’t blog all day, people to see, places to go and all that.

Charlie

By the way, Mitzi loved her Valentine’s presents! Went for a CD and sold a couple of my old X-Box games so that I could stump up the cash for some perfume. I am officially flavour of the month (makes a change)!

The question is, what should I get for Mitzi this year? By a process of elimination (and ear bending) I have come to realise that garage flowers and chocs are not acceptable as a gift and so I am left with no option other than to go into town. The problem is that on my budget everything is a bit of a cheese fest. I mean, do people really buy teddy bears with big hearts on them? And if they do, are the people that receive these tacky gifts really pleased? I’m veering towards buying a CD for Mitzi and wrapping it in some fancy pants wrapping paper (should show thought and willing). I figure that with a good card (not humorous – that didn’t go down too well last year!) this could be a good bet.

Anyway, I hope that you all receive cards/gifts from everyone that you hope to and I’ll post more updates on the life and times of Charlie Oakley later.

bfn

C