Calum was called up to be goal keeper for his school football team tonight - in the cheshire schools cup final! He hasn’t played in goal for ages since taking up rugby instead of football. And they won! 5-1. Hopefully there’ll be a photo to follow.

Rory playing for the school football team above. He played right back as they defeated another local school 9-0

No football match for Calum today. Apparently it was too frosty on wednesday for the council to paint the white lines. Bet you don’t get that at Old Trafford! Coach decided that they should go for a series of cross country runs instead. Calum did well, finishing fourth out of 15.

Rory had rugby training inside the sports hall today. Matches for the next four sundays from now, starting with a hard match next week away to Macclesfield. For my sins, I’m the roving reporter for his team (Crewe & Nantwich RUFC) and pen the match reports. You can see them online here:  http://www.candnrufcjuniors.org/minis/Under_10.html

Rory put on his new (christmas present) Spurs kit todat ready for football training at the school. Chris took him down at 9:30 - only for it to be cancelled. Still kept his kit on all day though!

Calum’s football team played the league leaders Haslington Rovers today in what was expected to be a close game. Athletico Alexandra played really well and won the game 10-0 to go top of the table.

A hat trick was scored by Calum who played very well with a high work rate. In addition to his hat trick Calum made some great through passes which led to other goals. Haslington had few attacks but one led to Calum making a goal saving clearance off the line.

The weather was very poor, being cold and raining with the match being played at Georges Field, Crewe.