Football and rain

I was happy to be able to join J and his team for their little football tournament yesterday in Sorø. They played 4 matches and didn't lose any of them, drawing the first 3-3 and then winning 3-1, 4-0 and 3-1 again. They play 5 a side and 7 minutes each way with a more or less constant swapping of players so that they all 7 of them get a go in each half of each match.
There are a couple of boys on the team who are obviously seriously coached by their fathers. As you can imagine, J is not one of them, but when he remember that he is supposed to be joining in, he does quite well. It seems that his main problem is remembering to join in and not just spectate. I took quite a lot of pictures which I will post at some point.
The weather was dreadful with more or less continual heavy rain so we were all soaked and rather cold by the time we got back into the changing rooms, but they enjoyed themselves and it seemed that they were happy to win after the last tournament where they didn't manage to win a game as far as I recall.

The funniest episode was just after half time when J's team appeared to have been confused the the change of ends. Despite both teams trying to score in the same goals for 2 or 3 minutes, neither of them managed to get the ball in the net and as soon as Ringsted found out that they were playing in the wrong direction, they promptly took the ball up the other end and scored a goal.