Aaron's Blog

Last Saturday, Aaron and Ben entered a football tournament at GOALS (where they play on a Friday night) which was run by the Plymouth Argyle coaches. Nearly all of the Bickleigh Buddies went but, as Aaron is younger than the others, he had to be put in a different age group, so not with anyone he knew. He ended up in the orange team and was OK for the first game where he stayed in goal and generally didn’t do anything. But in the second game, he turned all silly and started crying and didn’t want to play anymore. I think it was because he couldn’t get the ball and didn’t want to do much running about. It was quite embarrassing really but we had to take him off for a bit. I did manage to get him to have another go a bit later on in the 2 hour session, as he wanted a medal and I said he wouldn’t get one if he didn’t play, so he had another go for 5 mins but the same thing happened again, so we gave up. It was a real shame but Aaron tends to be like this for some reason.  He was happy running about with Coby and Toby, kicking the ball on the pitch where we were watching Ben play! Anyway, he did get a medal at the end. His orange team came 2nd in the final standings as well, so I managed to get Chloe (the PAFC coach who coaches them on a Friday and was running this tournament) to give him a trophy. As you can imagine, he was very pleased with this as Ben had also won a trophy for his team being runners up as well. He shouldn’t really have got one though, but it made him happy and I was hoping it would give him a bit more confidence for if we go to a tournament again. He also received a specially made ‘Bickleigh Buddies’ medal along with all the other boys that play on a Friday night, so he came away with plenty of medals and a trophy!

Aaron with his awards

Aaron and Ben with their awards