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Stephen is a keen Sunderland AFC fan and season ticket holder

He is currently working as a Web Developer specialising in PHP and MySQL development.

In his spare time he enjoys playing pool, snooker and photography.

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6-a-side – week 4

by Stephen Hoult on February 10th, 2011

It’s been a while since I last posted on here. Mainly because of a lack of motivation as well as having had a lot on my plate with work, both cars breaking down and other not very nice things going on but hopefully the cars will be up and running again tomorrow and thing will get back to normal.

Nike Protega T90 Shin pads

Tonight will be the 4th week of 6-a-side which I’m enjoying greatly – though I’ve been disappointed with my performances the last 2 weeks running.

My first touch has all but deserted me but I will, I hope, find it again tonight.

At the very least my fitness is improving. I now last 20 minutes before I get a stitch!

The games so far have been fast paced and fairly physical with some meaty tackles flying in.

My shin pads (with ankle protection) seem to have done the trick in preventing badly bruised ankles – damn that blood thinning medication which makes me bruise like a peach after the slightest contact.

The games seem to be getting faster and more competitive each week, and hopefully that will continue. My team usually comes out on top – the other team always runs out of gas later on in the game allowing us to pick them off.

Twitter

And now, off the subject of football, are any of you twitter users also getting sick and tired of your timeline being filled up with people asking for retweets?

For example:

“Hi @FamousPerson Please give me a retweet for absolutely no worthwhile reason”.

Talking of Twitter, you can follow me @keeps21 by clicking on the Twitter logo at the top right hand side of the page. As well as adding me to Facebook by clicking on the Facebook logo in the same place

And that’s about it for this entry, cheers for reading!

Seeya!

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Still no 6-a-side

by Stephen Hoult on January 13th, 2011

We still haven’t managed to play 6-a-side but we have finally managed to get booked up for next thursday so will be making my debut then and can’t wait! Hopefully we’ll be having a kickabout on Saturday to help with my touch and fitness, I swear I’m better with my knees than with my feet, [...]

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It’ll have to wait and SAFC

by Stephen Hoult on January 7th, 2011

We didn’t manage to play 6-a-side last night so I’m still in one piece and just about fully functional. We couldn’t get enough people at such short notice as well as all the illnesses going around so thought it’d be better to postpone the 6-a-side for a week plus the time slot we want was [...]

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6-a-side

by Stephen Hoult on January 4th, 2011

My return to football, playing 6-a-side.

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We all live in a Gary Rowell World

by Stephen Hoult on August 4th, 2010

The video below pretty much sums up why I love football; It’s the passion of my fellow Sunderland supporters and the feeling of belonging to something and being among like minded people. I guarantee any Sunderland supporter who watches the video will have the hairs on the back of their neck stand up and feel [...]

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