Date of Composition: 11th June 2023 | 11:40 am.
My last full-blown article was about celebrating the delight of continuous warmth outside — well, the celebration of Vancouver’s 17-day-long outrightly sunny weather pattern came to a climactic conclusion during the weekend as the hot climatic conditions feathered away & transliterated into cold and rain droplets Friday evening, 9th June 2023, through Saturday morning.
Arriving at Mercer Park Stadium 12 hours into this weekend, my football plans came to a temporary halt as I had to bide my time whilst the rain fell, lightly but relentlessly. On the televised scene, Manchester United did not impress me enough this season, but apart from that, I am also a passionate partaker of football or as it’s called in Northern America, ‘Soccer’, so I play three to five times a week if I can. I also play basketball and ping-pong, but football gives me the most joy.
Finding out that Manchester City won the treble was even more motivation for me to leave the house on Saturday afternoon for the football pitch. Manchester United lost 2–1 to their city rivals a week ago in the English domestic cup final (the FA Cup), with the players & coach grabbing the silver medals. To be perfectly objective, Man Utd had a fairly acceptable 2022/2023 football season finishing third in the Premier League and winning the other domestic title, the English Carabao Cup, especially when compared to the 2021/2022 season when they won nothing and finished outside of the top four; however, on a personal level, I desired a little bit more from the team I have supported since I was 6 years old. Read my poem from February tributing their progress — CheckMate! — Tribute To Manchester United.
