A very subjective look into AWFC

We hear all the time how we shouldn’t regret anything in life and things of that nature. There’s this defiance associated with living life to the fullest which can seem very empowering, yet ignoring our regrets might be a very dangerous and detrimental thing because those regrets, those things deemed “bad” or even non existent, might help us to correct our behavior, and just like with apologizing, unless we correct said behavior, we’re not truly internalizing AND assimilating the situation.

It’s similar to this idea of “knowledge is power” which I’ve always thought is very flawed. Knowledge in action is indeed power, otherwise it’s just theory. Same with music theory, it’s only a suggested set of guidelines but if all you do is follow those you will never thrive or create something truly magical.

Not too dissimilar as I’ve mentioned recently where people talk about football, they make a living talking about it, but they don’t have their badges, etc… talking about it and being about it are different things BUT in this football example, taking action is really not that important or relevant. It doesn’t really matter to me if anyone played the sport or not but there’s something to be said about when someone actually knows what they’re talking about… sometimes that’s not great either.

Take a player and not pundit like Danny Mills. Never liked him as a player, never liked him as a pundit, I don’t know him, I don’t care about him. I don’t rate his opinion but he obviously knows what he’s talking about, has a job to do, etc. I rather listen to basically anyone else talk about football, even if they haven’t played so, I’m the one tainting the opinion and my prism is just that, MINE.

Going back to the idea of regrets and knowledge… nothing implies knowledge more than reading and if there’s one thing I regret in my life is not having read more when I was younger. I read a lot, I have lots of favorite books, sometimes I can read 200 pages in a day and sometimes in the chapters are super long, I can only read 2 pages.

Biographies are such a wonderful read. I loved Dennis Bergkamp’s, Henry’s, David Beckham’s and recently read Beth Mead’s. They’re all so fascinating and I just cannot wait to read more and I impatiently await for more in the near future. I wanna know about Kaz Carney, DvD, Lia Walti, Jill Roord, Steph Catley, etc etc etc.

BTW please read anything and everything by my friend Suzy Wrack. She’s the goat.

So, what is it that I’m saying? I’m saying that it could be YOU who writes that next biography. You might have the passion for women’s football in a much more pronounced way than me. You might be obsessed, hopefully in a healthy way, with someone and you know a lot about their lives and upbringing… maybe you can be that.

I know a lot of you out there dream of working in women’s football, and this could be a way to do it and to help maybe lesser known players or “forgotten” ones to be brought to light in these modern times.

If you don’t do it, who will?

❤

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