Okay, so today I decided to track that Ipswich versus Spurs preseason friendly properly. Wanted every single detail written down for my records, y’know?
Started by grabbing my laptop around noon, fired up a blank doc. Remembered I needed LIVE updates, so pulled up two phone apps – one for BBC text commentary and another for some football tracker thing. Battery died halfway? Typical. Plugged it in angry cuz the charger cord’s all frayed.
First Half Madness
- Minute 1: Already chaotic. Ipswich’s keeper kicked it straight out for a throw-in. Laughed and typed “keeper disaster?” in my notes.
- Minute 15: Spurs scored. Son passed to Perisic, he smashed it top bins. Copied the scorer’s name wrong twice – kept typing “Perisitch” like an idiot.
- Minute 38: Saw Ipswich hit the post! Nearly spilled coffee jumping up. Wrote “CLANG” in caps with three exclamation points. Looked like a toddler typed it.
Half-time whistle blew, stretched my legs, checked Twitter fan rants about formations. Most tweets just said “garbage” or “lol”. Refreshed apps five times waiting for second half.
Second Half Stuff
- Minute 61: Whole bunch of subs ruined my flow. Messed up tracking who came off. Scribbled “???” next to two names.
- Minute 76: Spurs kid got a yellow. Thought he’d slide-tackled someone? Apps just said “foul near halfway line”. Guessed and wrote “rash challenge”.
- Minute 89: Ipswich finally scored! Scrappy goal, corner bounced around. My doc looked like this: “CHAOS – DEFLECTION? – YES GOAL HAHA”.
Wrapping up: Final whistle blew 1-2. Spent ten minutes googling how to spell “Bissouma” for the assist. Copy-pasted BBC’s stats table into my doc – numbers everywhere. Whole thing took three hours including bathroom breaks and yelling at my router twice. Ended up with six pages of messy timestamps. Would I do it again? Absolutely. It’s messy fun.