Victory at last

One of the perils of teaching is having to endure the odd day of INSET (a fine example of trying to force an acronym when it’s not needed: ‘training day’ would be so much more self-explanatory) where members of staff demonstrate some of their weaknesses as teachers in front of the entire teaching body of a school.

Today we had the opportunity to get annoyed at the one who set us a task, gave us eight minutes to complete it, and talked for four of those eight minutes, thus making it rather hard to concentrate on the activity.

To be fair, I would hate to train my colleagues and would do a far worse job.

Besides, that’s not the point of this post. It is, indeed, just the preamble to explain why I’m currently at home playing Mario Strikers Charged and celebrating the fact of having finally won a few games— two of them against online opposition. I play a passing game (this is a euphemism: it means method of play in which one player keeps losing the ball to the opposition but sometimes mistakenly gives the ball to a member of his own team) thus my possession averages at around 28%.

Defensively my playing style leaves a lot to be desired but I’ve been learning the advantages of the shoulder barge as a means of winning the ball.

Possibly related:

• Wii
• New high score
• Chesterfield 3 Southend United…