FROTHING

As a regular coffee drinker, I am extremely fussy as to how my coffee is to be served. Strong, with richly frothed foam. My regular order is a cappuccino which consists of three equal parts.

1 Part espresso which is poured first.
1 Part frothed foam poured second.
Lastly, 1 part milk which is poured to fill up the coffee cup.

The secret to the success of a really good cappuccino depends on how well the milk is frothed. Hence, the action of frothing is important. Only of your milk that is.

You can also froth from the mouth.  This is not necessarily a good thing, especially if you are epileptic. The term can also be used to describe excitement or eagerness.

You see, I am part of a 5 a side indoor football team (8 okes in the squad) aptly named DreamTeam, playing in the Thursday division 1 league. We play one game a week which is 30 minutes long and consists of two equal halves with no offside rule.

As you can imagine, the life of an amateur footballer can be stressful with the on-goings of your day job and all. Therefore, our manager, yes you read correctly, manager, has the task of selecting our team, informing us of fixtures, making substitutes and giving those inspiring half time team talks. He's an Arsenal fan so we call him Arsene.  In stark contrast to Arsene Wenger, his managerial services (albeit part time) are purely pro-bono (as in free).

"Our Arsene"

                                                    

Arsene usually notifies the squad on a Tuesday of our upcoming fixture (time and opposition are disclosed) and our 8 names and positions are confirmed, in case we have forgotten our role in the team OR have been axed from it.

This email from Arsene is usually the start of a thread from the okes describing their willingness and excitement to play, with each individual email never longer than 2 words.  Some of the okes are so excited, they can't even type. So they send motivational pictures instead. Typical typed responses include:

• FROTHING (as in from the mouth, excitement induced and through no fault of a strobe light)
• AMPT (really excited)
  
• SUPER AMPT (really, really excited)

These few words (and pictures) set the tone. For the next three days we build ourselves up mentally and when Thursday morning arrives, we are literally FROTHING to play and play well.  Your palms are sweaty and your hands shaky, your day at work is just a means to an end.

All you can think of are those 30 minutes and just when you thought you could not get any more psyched for a game of amateur indoor football, your email inbox flashes, it's a message from a team mate, you open the mail only to read.......

FROTHING

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DreamTeam are currently 2nd on the Division 1 league table having played 3 games.
1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw.
Keep checking for updates and results from our season

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