The FA Cup is the oldest soccer tournament in the world, first played in 1872 and contested every year since with the exception of the years of WWI and WWII. In all that time, Leicester City Football Club had never won the tournament, despite appearing in the finals three previous times. That finally changed Saturday, thanks to a worldy from Youri Tielemans, two diving saves by Kaspar Schmiechel and a video review that nullified a late Chelsea equalizer.
The first season YHC started paying any attention to the Premier League was 2015-16, which happened to be the year Leicester City, 5000-1 long shots, won the league, the biggest underdog champion in history. (Freakonomics devoted an entire podcast episode to this that is worth a listen.)
This seemed like a sign, so YHC adopted them as “his” team. Seemed less bougie than pulling for Arsenal or Man U or one of the other traditional Top 6 clubs.
Anywho, reveling in Saturday’s victory, YHC thought it would be nice to celebrate with the PAX of The Eagle. LCFC won the 140th Cup Final, so we had fun with the number 140.
After brief standard warmup, we moseyed to track and partnered up. Dora-style, one partner ran while other partner did reps until each partner set completed 140 of the following:
- Burpees
- WWII
- Merkins
- Jump Squats
This took a while. 10 penalty burpees for two VERY late arrivals, then moseyed over to blacktop.
The same season of the miracle Premier League win, Leicester striker Jamie Vardy set a Premier League record for scoring goals in 11 consecutive games.
So went for a round of 11s: 10 star jumps, bear crawl to fence, 1 dry dock, backwards run to start, 9-2, 8-3 and so on. Didn’t have quite enough time to finish. Moseyed back for just a couple minutes of
Mary
- Flutter Kick X 51 IC
- LBC X 30 IC
Fin.
COT
- King LL invited PAX to join him and Beebe every Friday at 7am for prayer at King’s Park International Church.
- Prayers for Grandpa Ninja’s job interview today at 4.
- Yurt encouraged folk to sign up to Q.
- Castaway put in a plug for a service project at Jordan Lake the morning of June 6. M and 2.0 friendly. Check any of the south durham slack channels for more info.
YHC noted that the Catholic Church encourages us in the month of May to reflect on the Virgin Mary as well as all the women in our lives who are important to us. Before YHC took us out, asked PAX to think about the mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, sisters, aunts and all other women in our lives with a sense of gratitude for what they mean to us and a sense of responsibility for what we owe to them in return. Ended the prayer by asking for the intercession of Holy Mother:
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.