Being attacked from all sides, Superdog won the day!
History buffs from all corners of the globe weighed in on the side of the 8 year old Superdog Samuel about Elizabeth I being a Tudor and not a Stuart. It was as if he got me vulnerble to Krypton and not the other way around!
Among the first of those who emailed me was Shalu from Chennai:
Hi Sushil,
Samuel, your grandson, I think is right in saying your Encyclopaedia is not correct.
From what I know Queen Elizabeth the 1st, was the last of the Tudors as she was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
She had no children.
When she died issueless, James the 1st (son of Mary Queen of Scots) came to the throne and, for the first time, England and Scotland were ruled together by a single king.
He began the Stuart line.
Many more of our blog readers came through with the same views proving that the Hutchinson Encylopedia was wrong.
I am toying with the idea of writing a stinker to the Editor of the Encyclopedia, as no Grandpa likes to be put to shame by his 8 year old grandson!
Saturday, and I went to watch Soda play football for his Tervarit Junior's side.
The Tervarit side played as if they were a bunch of novices. The defence was wide open. They virtually gave the opposing team all the five goals as gifts, including a penalty. They managed to salvage one goal from a free kick.
If the team plays in such a lethargic fashion, there is no hope for them.
The opposing side were well trained and played hard from start to finish. They chased the ball and in 99% cases they reached the ball before the Tervarit player. Their No. 8, in particular, played a super game along the left wing, running hard and controlling the ball with a long stride.
Most of the Tervarit players walked about the field waiting for the ball to come to them. They also used diastrous tactics of playing the ball across their own goal in the defnce area, time and time again, giving up valuable ground and playing into the hands of the attackers.
As I told Soda, unless each Tervarit player, including in particular, Soda, improves their stamina and their own personal games, there is no point in playing as a team. Personal fitness is above all importmant, as each member of the side has to been seen to play hard, instead of ambling along the pitch as if the rest of the team should pass the ball to them.
That is no way to play football.
In football the players have to be constantly on the move, constantly positioning themselves so that the ball can be safely passed to them. That needs a huge amount of energy on the part of the players. I did not see this today in the Tervarit Junior's side.
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