This has always been a place of pot holes and cracks in the road. It is like a fault line between Bridge Street and East St Helen Street. But currently it looks worse than ever.
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American Football in Abingdon
Passing Abingdon Rugby Club today I was surprised to see American Football happening. On enquiring I discovered that The Oxford Saints were taking on the Birmingham Bulls.
I watched for some time not fully understanding what was going on. Only later did I read a Beginners Guide on the Oxford Saint’s Website, and it began to make a bit more sense – how a whole team of players were replaced by a different team every now and then.
Despite all the protective gear, there were far more injuries than I would ever expect to see at an an equivalent Rugby Game.
Oxford Saints in red and blue eventually won by 28 to 2. For anybody interested the next game at Abingdon RUFC is 27th June @ 2:30 PM against Nottingham Ceasars .
Tesco – Official England Supermarket
The way Tesco are pushing the world cup it could become as big as Christmas.
Tesco have been awarded the accolade of ‘official England supermarket’ by the football association.
Near the entrance men were laying the official pitch surrounded by the logos of the companies whose products are on sale over coming weeks.
Only two weeks to go. On 12th June the World Cup kicks off with England V USA at 8:30 PM.
The England flag has been placed near the air conditioning and is really flying – quite possibly a good omen.
In with my packs of clementines I got some Attax World Cup trading cards including a gold Francesc Fabregas – Man of the Match – card. That could well be worth something in the latter stages of the competition.
World cups give us such a high when things are going well, and such lows. They also leave a glut of surplus stock if England fail to get through to the latter stages.
Football, Drumming, and Football
Everybody is eagerly awaiting the Oxford United game tomorrow at Wembley. They play York in the play-off final to see if they can get back in the football league. So many people are going to Wembley from Abingdon it could be like a ghost town, and there were commemorative scarves and hats on sale in town today.
There was also a drumming workshop on the Market Place at around lunchtime. The enthusiasm of the lead drummer got a huge circle of people involved. Great fun!
And down at Southern Town Park a big football tournament was taking place. Hosted by Abingdon Youth Football Club, it had teams as young as six who swarmed round the ball, and then competitions for every year group up to age 14.
There are about one hundred teams involved over the two days of the weekend. This is down a bit on what it could have been. The Oxford game tomorrow is keeping some away.