doing it for the kids:
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Posted: July 30th 2009
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Quality over quantity should be the watchwords of any blogger. Oh yes. But even in the world of would be quality blogging, six months without a contribution is...well it’s beyond unforgiveable. Actually, that’s a little dramatic. In the zany, high speed world of Planet Blog, it simply means you’ll be completely forgotten.
Fortunately, with this ‘ere blog not being a solo mission, but rather residing snugly within the bosom of the goalfood fanzine, I can sneak in the back door for my ‘comeback’, and hope no one will notice I’ve been away (if indeed they noticed I was here in the first place).
Truth is, shortly after my last ‘respect’ contribution, I simply ended up doing so much coaching (well over 100 kids a week, a minimum six sessions a time), that I left myself no time to write about it.
Truth is, shortly after my last ‘respect’ contribution, I also suffered the anonymous blogger’s worst nightmare. A reader who enjoyed the piece kindly forwarded a link to a good-sized chunk of his address book...but said reader is also a chum, and though I’d never told him I was the blogging youth gaffer, he’d put 2 + 2 together and made...4. Consequently, without thinking, he mentioned my name in his email.
The subsequent positive feedback I received on the piece (including one from our local FA) warmed the cockles...but the blown cover has meant that I’ve had to rethink the whole raison d’etre of this blog. There is so much that can be said behind the cloak of anonymity that doesn’t bear repeating when said anonymity is lost.
So come the start of the season I’ll continue to report (ir)regularly on the shenaningans of the kids’ game...and I’ll do so anonymously, in an ongoing effort to strike a chord with fellow youth football volunteers nationwide...but ‘knowing they know’, my guard may just occasionally be up...