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Saturday and with no game for us it was virtually a day off! However, there was the small matter of the Lancashire Derby. Blackpool were the visitors to Deepdale. They went away with the three points thanks to a Wes Houlahan penalty…

Friday and not surprisingly, due to the amount of rain we’ve had, the match against Bury was called off. So we went off to Tulketh High yet again for some more 5-a-sides. Once again these were fiercely competitive; I was doing OK until one match where I had an absolute nightmare. ..

Wednesday and the pros had a day off after their match with Hull. With the pitches unplayable yet again, we went up to the indoor pitches at Tulketh High School. We just played a few 5-a-sides, I did well in these but got some nasty burns again off the plastic grass!..

Tuesday was match day for the pros. With the pitches still being unplayable we went up to Corpus Christi High School. It has a brand new 3rd generation turf pitch, which is great. Dave came up to work with Tommo and me…

Monday morning and we were in the gym for the usual Monday weight session. The mood was good despite our 2-1 defeat away to Oldham at the weekend as we were the better side. The big FA Youth Cup tie against West Brom at Deepdale was approaching, and everyone was bristling with anticipation…

Friday was the last day of classes before the weekend, in the evening we all went round to the house that four of the lads have just moved into and we all just chilled out and had a laugh together…

Match: Stoke City Vs Manchester City

Today I felt weirdly optimistic about the game, although having a few regular more experienced players out of the team and with us being rock bottom and Man City being perched on the top of the table I still felt that we could come away from the game with a result…

Wednesday was a pretty quiet day too, after classes we just chilled out again in the evening and watched a movie…

Classes started at 8.30am until 2.50pm again on Monday. I didn’t do much after class just chilled out really and played a bit of Football Manager. There’s not much to do in evenings now that we have no soccer practice at the minute…

Sam, Alex, Jazz and me travelled back to Banner Elk in the afternoon which took about 2 hours. When we got back we had a bit of homework to do and then we went out for something to eat…

We just chilled out again today, getting over the huge amount of food I ate yesterday! I got up and watched Arsenal play at 10am, then the Chelsea game was on after that. ..

We got up in the morning and went to Concord Mills which is one of the largest malls on the east coast of America just outside Charlotte. It was Black Friday and the biggest shopping day of the year with massive sales in every shop, it was packed…