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joycey7 postee total posts: 43 since: Jun 2008	Jun 22, 08 at 01:43AM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - New Update .::/
	More updates please. This is just simply amazing. Your writing style is so unique! This has got to be a shoe in for Soms of the week! KUTGW
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Jakeyd 29/09 - The Mighty Boosh! s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1704 since: Mar 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 04:02AM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Diary of a Young Footballer March 2008 With just five matches across the two months in January and February I was touch and go for the first match of the year against Accrington but I got there for the match. With a second goal to my name I would’ve travelled on to Middlesbrough but a booking in the Accrington match left me in the stands for the match. I was quietly confident during my pre-match fitness test as my rib hadn’t pained me since Thursday and I passed it with flying colours. Everything was going well until Accrington’s Tom Riley got in from what I thought was an offside position and he tucked it away for the opener inside eleven minutes. I complain to the ref and deservedly got booked for my troubles and would be out for the match next week against Middlesbrough. Many under-18’s managers had not been impressed with the “boy’s behavior in the last match” and I was getting sick of their comments and I bounced back in the right way and in the twenty-third minute I had got my second goal of the season. The down side to this match was that I was out for the next match, as soon as I pick up some form and get a goal I have to miss the next match. Without the help of me in side due to suspension and the scoreline was the same, 3-0 to Middlesbrough. It was always going to be a tough task and even more so with a few Farsley players out. With three more games left of this period to get in the good books of the manager and the rest of the players beginning with my rival club, Halifax, away. But yet again, injury marred the rest of my action for the rest of month with a twisted knee, my luck was getting really bad for injuries. This meant I would be injured for my 15th birthday and would celebrate my birthday in the stands watching Farsley under-18’s play against Bury. Results when out – Halifax Town 4-0 Farsley Celtic Farsley Celtic 2-1 Bury I was surprisingly back from injury after the Bury match after a great Birthday present – a first Farsley Celtic win for the season. I was set to be back for the Carlisle match on the 23rd and we were on a bit of a roll since the Bury match. Once again I started and once again we got beaten 3-0 but we have until the first of March to recover.
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Jakeyd 29/09 - The Mighty Boosh! s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1704 since: Mar 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 05:57AM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Diary of a Young Footballer End of Season Review June 2008 The start to the countdown to the end of the season started with a cracking match against Grimsby which ended 3-2 in Grimsby’s favour, but in training a recurring twisted ankle kept me out for another month which will leave me with just one more match of the season left. A quick return to action has let me in for another three games left with the season against Rochdale, Sunderland and Newcastle United. Grimsby was our next opponents and I was fired up more than ever and hoping to close out the season with style and we nearly did. After half an hour it wasn’t looking to good after two early goals from Grimsby, but a penalty was awarded to Farsley and Weston converted with ease and we would’ve gone into the break 2-1 down but another goal for Grimsby put us in a lower spirit. We managed to claw a goal back in the eighty-seventh minute to end the game on 3-2 to Grimsby. Yet another injury kept me out for the remainder of the season, another twisted ankle, that was it, my season was over bar a game. Games I was injured for – Darlington 1-1 Farsley Celtic Hartlepool 1-1 Farsley Celtic Surprisingly I was named on the bench for the match against Rochdale, the first time I had being on it in the whole season I had only started light training on the Wednesday before the match, I made it onto the pitch in the 64th minute replacing Lee Weston and within six minutes of my arrival we had conceded and that’s how it finished, 1-0 to Rochdale. In the final game of the month, we faced Sunderland under-18’s in a tight game and everyone knew what the score line was going to be, and they were all wrong. To everyone’s surprise we took the lead inside four minutes and we held the lead up until hat-trick hero from the return fixture, Martyn Waghorn equalized late on in the seventy-sixth minute and now everyone has one match left to impress against Newcastle, the best team in the group on the tenth of May. My last game of the season was ended in seven minutes into the match as I stubbed my toe and was out after two to three days. I was happy with my season but I need to get fitter for next season and hope to have less injuries next season – whichever club I’m at. My two goals from this season will hope to be turned into more. Honours Premier League – Arsenal Championship – West Brom League One – Swansea League Two – Chesterfield Blue Square Premier – Halifax [YAY] Blue Square North – Boston United Blue Square South – Lewes FA Cup – Newcastle United Carling Cup – Arsenal UEFA Champions League – Lyon UEFA Cup – Bayern Munich
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Jakeyd 29/09 - The Mighty Boosh! s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1704 since: Mar 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 08:55AM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Diary of a Young Footballer Home June 18, 2008 I was just scanning around the UEFA.com website and I’ve been watching Euro 2008 a lot. It’s grabbed all of my attention, what with England being in it. Me and the family have been cheering on the three lions and we’ve got a ticket booked for the Quarter Finals to cheer on the England lads. I cannot wait, I’ll definitely be there in Vienna when the eleven heroes step out, I hope that’ll be me in a few years. But as things go, we’ll not be going to see England, now it’ll be Germany as we didn’t qualify. GROUP A Holland Czech Republic Austria Serbia This was the group that was sealed as soon as the fourth team was drawn in December 2007 at the UEFA EURO 2008 draw. Holland and Czech Republic were certainly going through but it wasn’t as open as Czech Republic would’ve liked. To everyone’s surprise, Czech Republic were beaten by Serbia in Innsbruck and thanks to Dejan Stankovic the scored the winner with just nine minutes left. In the other match, Holland downed the hosts Austria in a very simple 1-0 victory with Ruud Van Nistelrooy scoring the winning goal in the fifth minute. Serbia, who giant killed Czech Republic in the first match we’re beaten themselves in Klagenfurt to Austria as Daniel Yasar scored in the 64th minute to send Austria into second place as Czech Republic held Holland to a 1-1 draw with van Persie and Galasek scoring the goals and van Nistelrooy got sent off in the late stages of the match. The qualifiers would be who won in the final matchday and Holland and Czech Republic both walked away with wins, Holland crushing Serbia 3-0 and Czechs winning 2-0. GROUP B Spain Croatia Switzerland Norway This was another ‘sealed up’ group but you could never be so sure with co-hosts in the group and Croatia not looking quite clever in the late matches of the qualifying matches. The co-hosts, Switzerland kicked the tournament in style, beating Norway 2-0. The two best teams in the group faced off in the first matchday with Spain thrashing Croatia 3-1 with goals coming from Villa and Fernando Torres and Eduardo getting the late Croatia goal. Croatia and Spain both came away with wins in the second matchday with Spain beating Norway 2-0 with Torres getting both goals. Croatia squeezed past co-hosts Switzerland 2-1 with Kranjcar getting the vital Croat goal. Croatia opened the door for Switzerland to qualify with a win with Croatia held to a 1-1 draw with Norway. However, Switzerland slipped up and got beat 3-1 with Torres’ fifth goal of the tournament in three games with Villa getting the other. GROUP C Italy Germany England Romania This was the group of death when the teams were drawn and it was down to Germany vs. England to settle the group’s last qualification spot. Germany took a stranglehold in the group with a 3-0 thrashing over Romania whilst England and Italy played out a 2-2 draw. Alberto Gilardinho and Luca Toni put Italy 2-0 up at half-time but then Michael Owen and a Shaun Wright-Phillips last gasp penalty drew the teams level. Camoranesi and Gattuso brought Italy a 2-1 victory over Germany whilst England beat Romania by the same score line with Owen and Gerrard getting the goals. Italy sealed their qualification into the quarter finals with a 3-0 victory over Romania whilst the deciding match between Germany v. England. Steven Gerrard put England 1-0 and Shaun Wright-Phillips had the chance to put England 2-0 up with a penalty but he missed it. This lead to an outburst from Germany as they scored three goals before half-time and that was it, England were out! GROUP D France Greece Sweden Portugal This looked like another hard group with France and Portugal looking favourites to go through but that’s far from what really happened. Sweden were held to a 2-2 draw by Greece and stopped getting a great head start of the qualification spot. France downed Portugal with goals coming from Henry and Toulalan and Deco getting the Portugal goal. Greece were hoping for a repeat of four years ago and that’s what exactly happened when Gekas scored for Greece to beat Portugal 1-0. France got their second win of the tournament with a victory over Sweden – a 3-0 victory with two goals from Thierry Henry and a goal from David Trezeguet to all but end Sweden’s hopes. Greece ended France’s hopes of a 100% record in the groups with Henry getting two and completing his five goals in three matches record. Greece’s draw seemed to be valuable as Sweden beat Portugal 1-0 with Zlatan Ibramiovic getting the vital goal but it didn’t matter in the end. Wish me luck in my trip to see Germany v. France.
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Chelsea Boi Hooked on Neo total posts: 4841 since: Apr 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 10:24AM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - EURO 2008 Pt.1 Update .::/
	Good Update. A lot of information on the group's and results. England not getting through...Who woulda thought that Anyways, keep up the good work. This message was edited by chelseaboi14 on Jun 22 2008.
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theiceman99 Viva La Vida Still Seekin' total posts: 3344 since: Jan 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 10:35AM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - EURO 2008 Pt.1 Update .::/
	Good update mate. I like the last two updates where you provided us with an inisght to what else is happening in your game. Nice work.
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liverpudlien true seeker total posts: 1245 since: Dec 2006	Jun 22, 08 at 10:35AM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Agree with Chelseaboi, a lot of detail here. Very good detail. Hopefully one day you will be playing in the championships eh? KUTVGW
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Jakeyd 29/09 - The Mighty Boosh! s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1704 since: Mar 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 10:53AM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Diary of a Young Footballer Home June 30, 2008 So, I've just got back from Basel, Switzerland. It wasn't the best of matches to go and watch but at least it was something, it was something to tell my teammates at Farsley during pre-season. We got back in the early hours of yesterday morning so just after the Final, the final was absolutely amazing to watch at the fan zone. So were the late matches where they went to extra time, Holland and Czech Republic kept us up past midnight in plenty of nights and left me wondering on the four-hour trip back to Yorkshire... could I ever play at this level of professional football? I was only fifteen, but I was hoping for a professional contract at the end of next season, maybe earlier... either way, this tournament was fantastic and the knockout stage was even better! QUARTER FINALS Holland 3-2 Croatia [AET] Holland and Croatia kicked off the quarter finals and it went all of the way, the full 120 minutes. Eduardo boosted Croatia into a two nil lead inside twenty-six minutes and Holland looked down and out until Ruud van Nistelrooy got a penalty at the end of the second half and he converted it and took Holland into the second half with the score line shaped at 2-1. Croatia and Holland were trading very heavy blows until a break in the tread when Demy de Zeeuw equalized for the Dutch to send the match very tense. Very tense even after the full-time whistle when the scores were deadlocked and the game went into Extra Time. Ruud van Nistelrooy put the Holland fans into ecstasy with a goal in the 108th minute, Jaliens was sent off two minutes after their goal but it didn’t matter as Holland were going to the semis. Czech Republic 0-0 Spain Czech Republic win 3-1 on penalties Possibly the team of the tournament were gonna face off with Czech Republic who scraped through with Holland in their group. Fernando Torres and David Villa were both on fire with Torres grabbing his fourth and fifth goal in his last match. One of Czech Republic’s key players, Tomas Galasek was out of the game and out of the tournament with a gashed leg inside nineteen minutes. The teams sparred for the remaining twenty-five minutes of the first half but nothing was to come of the first half or the second half or neither extra time as they went all the way as the teams went to penalties. After the first round of penalties Luis Garcia and Tomas Sivok had both converted their penalties. Player of the tournament, Fernando Torres missed his penalty which set up Milan Baros to score his penalty. Spanish striker, Raul missed his penalty too which set up Czech Republic for a probable victory. Zdenek Grygera scored for Czechs which meant that if Cesc Fabregas missed it would be all over for Spain.. and it was, Fabregas blasted wide. Greece 0-3 Italy Italy marched on as they meant to go forward and they did in a rather easy tie against Daniele de Rossi got things started with a goal in the fourth minute and Italy continued to dominate and another goal soon came along via Luca Toni inside 19 minutes and Italy didn’t look like they were going to stop and they didn’t when Alberto Gilardino scored Italy’s third goal of the match in the 39th minute. Daniele de Rossi’s match didn’t continue much longer when he got injured. It didn’t matter because Italy walked onto the semi finals. Germany 1-0 France This was the game I went to, it was at St. Jakob’s Park in Basel and it was quite dull to be honest with only the one goal in the match and not that much to write up about it really except from the golden moment with Bastian Schweinsteiger getting the winning goal in the twenty-seventh minute to put them through for a re-match of the World Cup Final with Holland. SEMI-FINALS Germany 2-3 Holland [AET] It was a very exciting match, I should’ve gone to see this match! It started off well with Miroslav Klose opened up the scoring in the fourth minute with a header from a corner. Holland soon hit back with a goal from Robin van Persie who hit a stunner of a free kick to level the game up in the sixth minute of the match. The game went into the second half with a 1-1 draw on the cards but more exciting and tantalizing football was to be played and Lukas Podolski got Germany’s second goal to kick off the second half in the fifty-fourth minute. Following Germany’s second goal, they were on the rocks and Holland wouldn’t give up until they got their equalizer and they got it in the seventy-fifth minute from Demy de Zeeuw’s second goal of the tournament. The game was the third game to go into extra time for the full 120 minutes and Robin van Persie exploited the German weaknesses as he scored 91 minutes after his first goal in the 95th minute to send Holland into the EURO 2008 final! Czech Republic 3-2 Italy A terrific performance from a Czech Republic striker put them through to the final, bagging a hat-trick in the process. All the goals came in one bulk of the match with Martin Fenin getting the first of his three of his hat-trick in the 17th minute but two quick fire goals from Andrea Pirlo and Luca Toni in the 31st and 34th minutes left Italy with a 2-1 lead looking like they were going into the break with a lead but Martin Fenin bagged his brace just six minutes from the Italian’s second goal and just five minutes from the break. Czech Republic were going on a rampage and were looking brilliant and this was boosted by Martin Fenin’s third goal of his brilliant hat-trick and this will set-up the group stage replay of Holland vs. Czech Republic. FINAL Holland 2-0 Czech Republic Holland completed their domination of UEFA EURO 2008 and Europe as they beat Czech Republic 2-0 in the final in Vienna. Wesley Sneijder kicked things off in the twenty-fourth minute to power Holland onto a sublime first half display which set things up for the second half which Holland played well as well as it really was just a one-sided game and it shows this opinion when Joris Mathijsen scored Holland’s final goal in UEFA EURO 2008 and the final goal in EURO 2008 with a leaping header from a whipped in free kick from Robin van Persie.
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Chelsea Boi Hooked on Neo total posts: 4841 since: Apr 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 10:57AM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - Final EURO 2008 Update .::/
	Great update. A lot of detail once again and a great read. Nice to see Holland won it Keep up the good work Jake
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theiceman99 Viva La Vida Still Seekin' total posts: 3344 since: Jan 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 11:00AM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - Final EURO 2008 Update .::/
	Nice, detailed summary of the European Championship there. Hope I do better on my game than Spain did on yours. Looking forward to seeing how the second season of your career goes.
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stretford_ender Without killin anyone, we won it 3 times submission happy total posts: 136 since: May 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 12:01PM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - Final EURO 2008 Update .::/
	Brilliant mate, truly great
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Jakeyd 29/09 - The Mighty Boosh! s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1704 since: Mar 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 12:03PM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Thanks for all your positive comments and constructive criticism I will give you an update tomorrow afternoon or later on tonight after the Spain/Italy match.
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Jakeyd 29/09 - The Mighty Boosh! s-e-e-k-e-r total posts: 1704 since: Mar 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 02:44PM re: *\|* The Diary of a Pro Footballer - I'm on Cribs! - The Mini Showroom Update *\|*
	Diary of a Young Footballer Throstle Nest 3:58pm September 1, 2008 All of the under-18’s were at a dead end, either break through to the Farsley first team or simply burn out as a player and go into a normal life. This was because since Farsley’s full squad got relegated to the Blue Square North which meant we won’t be entered into a reserve league or an under-18 league, so it was full squad or die. The manager set us a goal two months ago that we had to do tests to see whether we could cut it in the full squad so the manager called the reserve and under-18 players in one by one, I was next. I stepped into the home dressing room where the manager had made a makeshift table in the medical room next to it. He told me I had not made it because I had not put ‘enough effort in training in the past two months’ and that they would release me on a free. I was devasted. This was the end and I guess I’d have to move onto a different club, but who? Of course a number of scouts were at the final day of testing for the full squad and who would they pick to join their club… ?
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Chelsea Boi Hooked on Neo total posts: 4841 since: Apr 2007	Jun 22, 08 at 02:46PM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - Major Farsley Update .::/
	You got released. Oh well, I have a hint you'll go to a much better team
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theiceman99 Viva La Vida Still Seekin' total posts: 3344 since: Jan 2007	Jun 23, 08 at 04:47AM re: ::. The Diary of a Young Footballer - Major Farsley Update .::/
	Hope you move on to a bigger club mate. Good update, short, but to the point. KIU!
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