Unreal....

My friend sent me this link of a beat boxer. Prepare to be dazled!!

Football

St Silas football team played Trinity Possil in the Atholl Cup (Division Three) quarter final on Saturday and we came away victorious with a 7-2 win! The first game St Silas played on grass in months wasn't quite as one sided as the scoreline suggests. A long ball through to John from Derick caused the defender to give away a penalty which Frank slotted away twice (he had to take it again). Trinity deservedly pulled back level with a scorching shot from long range. Then Frank worked himself some space right on the touch line to cross perfectly for Ali Morrow's well timed run. Ali headed St Silas into a lead before half time.

The second half goals just merge into one in my mind: The score went 3-1, 3-2 then 7-2 (John got 3, Frank 2 and Ali 2). Trinity's goal came from a corner, the goal scorer headed brilliantly past Derick. St Silas got to grips with the surface in the second half and really started to play well, winning more 50/50 balls. Also Trinity's defence had problems dealing with the pace and skill of John and Frank. It was fantastic to have Big Tam back in the team (if you could pray for him that would be great) he played fantastically and brings so much to our squad!! He's a big guy and very good with both feet, he set up at least one goal directly with a through ball to John. I also was given M.O.M. which was a surprise as I thought i had played poorly!!!


Also Scotland won 2-1!!!! wooohoooo

Larsson....

It's sad to see Henrik Larsson finally leave British football for the last time after a loan spell at Manchester United. My friends Darren and I have spent a lot of time discussing his talents as a football player over the last couple of months and he mentioned how it was Larsson's goal against Bulgarian in Euro 2004 which convinced him how good he was:



The striker hailed "King of Kings" by the Celtic fans played his final game at Old Traford last week in a match between Utd and a European 11 which raised money for charity, here are the goals, some a really very good:



He heads back to Sweden now to play for his first club Helsingborgs IF. He's probably the best football player I've ever seen, better than Zidane. He played at my team Celtic for seven years scoring 242 goals in 315 matches and then proved it wasn't just because it was in Scotland when went to Barcelona for two seasons where he basically won them the Champions league final!!

A true footy star, thank god for giving us all talents. I just pray Henrik comes to know god!!! Here is a link to another video which is about 8 mins long of all his goals, good fun to watch!

Trust

At Crusaders (a Christian youth group) we, the leaders, take turns at doing “The talk”. I always enjoy it when my father speaks and often we spend along time discuss the issue before had so we are prepared. Over the past few months my father has spoken on very interesting subjects, some which I would have liked to have blogged about (sadly I’m too busy). Last weeks subject was Trust but more specifically “Can God and other people trust you??"

Very often both Christians and Non Christian debate with themselves, and others, whether they can put there trust in some type of God; we get so focused of whether God, the bible, preachers etc. are trust-worthy. And there are so many books and much emphasis is put on this subject that it’s easy to forget that God has entrusted us with so much; he has given us the job of showing other people what God is like! For many people Christians (or those who profess to be Christians) are the only glimpse of God which they get to see, God is relying on Christians, trusting Christians show him to be who he is. His reputation is truly in their hands.

Society also is based on trust. Trusting that the driver won't drive on the path, your food will be cooked properly, the police will protect you and trusting your friends. It is so important that we are trust worthy and that means that we keep our word!

Today's Metro had this (advisable to read!!!) article which is about a site made by Creationist Christians called Conservapedia which, the paper claims, says things like: "...our flat Earth stays still while the Sun revolves around it." After reading the article I was rather annoyed at the Christians who had made the site. It seemed they weren't taking God's reputation very seriously as what they say is rather stupid and in some cases down right lies; Jesus/God's name was being dragged through the mud and laughed at nationally! The way the article is written laughs and ridicules "Christian" views and most probably reinforces the idea that belief in God is crazy in at least some of its readers, more people being pushed away by God. After a look at the site (getting the link) I found it was nothing like as bad as the paper suggests, if you look page which the flat earth comment comes from (http://www.conservapedia.com/Earth) the picture is of the earth as a circle!! The Metro are lying..... (I strongly advise you to have a look yourself and send them an email!!!)

This serves as a warning to us about trust: A. We can't trust the media! but also B. Christians or (who ever you are or are labelled as) need to know what your views are and need to be careful what we say so that people don't get the wrong end of the stick! It's so easy to be misinterpreted, be careful :D

The fact that God would send his son to die and rise again so that the whole human race could be saved is an amazing story. For me though its crazy that he then got humans tell the others, that he would then give you and me, all of humanity the job letting people know about is rather silly. It’s actually really scary and when I think about even how I’ve related to my friends this week since I started writing this blog I cringed at the damage I’ve done to Gods reputation! I pray that this week you'll live up to the trust God has put in you!!!

St Silas vs Bridge

This top of the table clash was played in Easterhouse, Glasgow on possibly the MOST windy day EVER!!! After a hard fought match, against the weather, it finished 4-3 to Silas!

Bridge took the lead when they caught Silas on the counter attack, the attacker finished well with a flick past Derick. Alan Dock got one back when a defend and goalkeeper both left his tame shot for the other. Alan then got a second before half time with a free kick, first free kick we've scored in ages!!


In the second half John scored to make it 3-1 before Bridge pulled it back to 3-2 with some great wing play and good finish. Then a Silas defender mis-judged a back pass which let an attack in on goal: 3-3. As the game went on both teams looked for a winner but it was Frank (in typical Frank style) who got it; after some slick play his volley/half volley from the edge of the box went straight into the bottom corner, 4-3 and that's how it stayed!


Alan Dock got MoM which is about time as his play on the left wing is just magnificent. I do feel that some of the players in our team are too good for this level and Alan is definitely one of those! This win now put Silas 12 points ahead of Bridge (if they win there games in hand) and means that just three more wins in the next six games will guarantee we are Champions!


Next week we are playing in the cup, though sadly we have a few key players missing but, hey, its all good!

Another Quality Song.....

....from personal favourites Biffy Clyro!!!

The Scottish band have already released "Saturday Superhouse" (above link) from their new album which is on sale in a month or so but I have come across "Living is a problem" on myspace..... If you follow this link, which takes you to my profile, you can hear it. Takes a couple of listens but its fantastic!!!


MOAN THE BIFFY :D

St Silas vs CEC2

Saturday saw the first round of the 3rd Division Atholl cup. Last year St Silas, my team, got to the final only to be beaten by Houston (I'm sure some of you will remember that). This years cup started well for Silas with a convincing 5-1 win over the skillful CEC2.

The Silas squad was very depleted with only 13 players available (including the manager) but the team play some very attractive football. The goals came from Frank and John with 2 and 3 respectively!

A special mention to the left and right back (Murdo and Davy) who put in very strong performances and started the passing from the back!!!

Tomorrow we take on Bridge who are fellow table toppers, the team is still missing some players but praise God because he has healed my injury! I was supposed to be out for around 2weeks and I couldn't even walk last Friday night but then we prayed about it and it was almost perfect! Over the week it's steadily improved :D

Chris Johnston

My good friend Chris, who plays guitar in my band, The Rock Paper Scissors, has just recorded a solo song and put it on his myspace which can be found at: http://www.myspace.com/chrisjohnstonmusic. It song is particularly beautiful, quite mello and shows his lovely voice!!

Chris recorded the song with my best mate Calum who's studying Sound Engineering and has also promised to record the band later this month..... cant wait!! Please enjoy :P

Graham -- [noun]: A human transformer (Robot in disguise) 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

I quite like that! :P What does your name mean?

Pulled muscle

Today was the Strathclyde Civil Engineering 5-a-side footy competition. My team, "The Real Ale Madrid", got stuffed by everyone. Thankfully though we all saw it as quite funny and had a great laugh, despite the rain and the loosing.

Sadly, in the first game, I pulled a muscle in my leg which means I cant play tomorrow. Its a cup game Vs CEC2 and St Silas already have a few players missing. Hope the injury won't cost us, playing with 10 men from the start is no fun!!!!!

Model Pictures

As I mentioned in a previous blog post I helped a friend out by being a hair model, It was great fun and all the guys where really cool! Anyway, I got a copy of a few of the photos taken so here they are. We find out this week how they got on and if the hair doooo is through to the next round!!!

Please don't laugh too hard, please!!!

St Silas vs Burnside

Good news for all St Silas supporters: The game on Saturday 3rd March finished 3-2 to St Silas and the match report is only a day late!!!

The game was played on a dodgy astro turf pitch in Easterhouse, Glasgow. St Silas took an early lead through John Wood. Quickly afterwards Frank Brodie finished superbly after a trade mark Alan Dock cross, giving Silas a second. Much to Burnside's credit they started to come back into the game more and more with good passing and moving from the defence through to the strikers which St Silas couldn't deal with. Their good pressure should have been rewarded when a header crossed the line but the woeful ref didn't give it.

The second half started like the first ended, with St Silas on the back foot to Burnside's good passing play. Slightly against the run of play John escaped from the ref's strange offside decision to slot the third past the goal keeper. Burnside kept the pressure up forcing MOM Derick to pull off an number of fantastic saves! Frank then got himself sent off for two yellow cards which gave Burnside even more chance to test Derick. Towards the end of the game the ref gave a penalty which was rather ludicrous: 3-1. Then a Burnside cross found the head of an attacker: 3-2, which was no less than Burnside deserved for their performance.

Over all it Silas where lucky to go away with all three points, all credit to Burnside. In the last two weeks we have been shown up defensibly (as a team) when playing against teams who can keep the ball well. Though, to steal an over used football saying, "Its the sign of champions when you win when you don't play well"......Next week Silas take on CEC2 in the first round of the Cup!

New hair doooooo

My best friends dad is the owner of "MAKS" hairdressing in Merchant City, Glasgow. Because I've got longish hair (and don't really care how it looks) he asked me to be a hair model for a colour competition:






I should be able to get a copy of the real ones they sent away later on but thats one i just took myself! Looking rather sorry for myself methinks :P