Something i wont miss about Africa

Its an interesting title i know, because surely you would say to me, you will miss everything about Africa!

Well its not totally true, i will miss an awful lot about Africa once im not here, however today i was reminded that i wont miss having to ask the question ...

"So what kind of surface is it that we are playing on?"

Yes indeed, today was another Football match for the AFM football team, and well you never know what to expect in terms of pitch, players or referees.

Today was no different from any other match day! The car ride we found that it was sand, which was no surprise, then it turned out it was the training pitch at the national stadium! (yes we played a game with the national stadium 100 yards away)

It also turned out we were playing a Freetown premier league team or something along those lines, so turns out they play a fair bit!

The pitch was as un even as you can imagine, but it was still very playable compared to some places we have tried to have a football game!

So as you would expect we were under siege from the off, thankfully it took longer than expected for them to open the scoring, thanks to a couple of saves from myself and a couple of last ditch blocks from Ben!

So after 1 came 2 and after 2 came half time, after half time came 3 and after 3 came 4 after 4 i got bored, after i got bored i came out on pitch, after i came out on pitch i set us up a goal, after we scored our goal they scored one more, after that that was that.

So 5-1 loss for the AFM football team, not too bad and not too good with all things considered!

Least it was nice to have a run around! :)