Today I began writing up Grantham Hockey Club’s victorious 2011/12 season for 1,309 Days Later. That now means that I’m on the final stretch and am beginning to look forward to finishing it off and starting the process of publishing.
There’ll be a few more stages before that though, including checking over each chapter, formatting, and putting together a few appendices and including images.
We’re getting there. Fingers crossed, it might just be out before the Great Britain hockey teams finish their Olympic campaigns.
This from our first game in the East League against Boston:
As we surged forward in numbers to try and get ahead, one of our best early chances fell to your author, whose reverse stick shot just crept wide.
Rob Buxton, who had fed me the ball, and a few others, thought I had scored my first goal for 14 years, so close was it to going in.
A number of us were not happy with the way play was being allowed to continue after fouls were being committed or the ball was sent into the air in the circle and following a few comments too many, every one of us was given a green card.
We quietened down a bit and took the lead when David Nix’s mishit short corner strike looped over the Boston goalkeeper and into the goal. It wasn’t pretty, but no one could deny we deserved to be ahead.
1,309 Days Later, the story of how Grantham Men’s 1st XI went over three years without a league victory, is due to published later this year. A proportion of any royalties will go back into the club to support grass roots hockey.