We were lucky enough to meet a Goalkeeping legend today. We heard the EON Great Saves road show was in Reading today … and the FA Cup (or at least one of the replicas) would be in attendance as would a famous goalie.
We were convinced it would be David James … and if it was, Jon dared me to ask him the question, “so how does it feel to score an own goal then”. Given that Portsmouth lost 5-0 to Man Utd the day before (and 3 goals were own goals – one scored by DJ himself), I didn’t think that would be best question to ask!
We were pleasantly surprised to see Peter Shilton was the star. He was the England goalie who couldn’t keep out the Maradona goal scored by the “hand of god” back in 1986. He was part of Italia ‘90 line up – the year we got so close and all the guys played their socks off but were again foiled by Team Germany in a penalty shoot-out. That was the year of Gazza’s tears.
Anyway, Ollie and Tom were in their element. All four boys took their turn in goal against the machine … Ollie, Tom and Callum each saving two out of three shots.
They saw how their arm span matched up against David James … and if they could jump as high as he could. Plus a reaction speed test which Ollie comfortably won.
The boys also loved playing on the table football. Team Tom (playing with Callum and Jon) thrashed Team Ollie (& Dan and David) 10-5. Tom was a great forward and scored most of the goals.
Best of all, we got to have our photo taken with the FA Cup. Callum will no doubt appreciate this more in years to come.
What surprised us was the whole event was free. EON could have quite easily charged for the event, charged to have your photo taken with the FA Cup etc. but they didn’t. Fair’s fair … well done EON for allowing Joe Public, customers and non-customers to be able to take part in a great event.
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