Tenacious Tackles

Chapter 10:The Final

We were all on the bus on our way to Wembley to play in the Cup final. We finished 2nd in the league gaining promotion to the Premier league. I looked around on the bus to see some nenervous faces and some rather more nonchalant ones. I was one of the nervous ones.

I talked to Van Ewijk on the bus journey to distract myself from what awaits us at the end of the trip. I slight jolt of my body made me realise we have arrived. I left with my teammates and we settled into our rooms. I was with Simms, Torp and Jay (so, the usual bunch). I was not starting tomorrow but I am likely to be subbed on.

"I'm going out to get some bread, anybody need anything?", asked Simms. "Ooh, can I come with?", I hastily responded. "Yeah sure."
"can you get me millionaire shortbread please?", Torp asked. "Sure."

Me and Simms arrived at the shops and a fan noticed us. "Yo, can I get a picture?" I turned my head to see a guy, roughly about 32. "Yeah sure", Simms responded. He took the picture then left through the doors we arrived in earlier.

We got bread and was about to check out when I remembered about Torp's millionaire shortbreads. I told Simms then raced off to obtain them. I got back and we checked out the made our way home.

In the car, a song played on the radio.
"Let's go to the beach, each, let's go get a wave", I started singing slightly.
"They say, what they gonna say?", Simms joins in.
"Have a drink, clink found the bud light", I proceeded.
"BAD BITCHES LIKE ME IT'S HARD TO COME BY"
"THE PATRON, OWN, LET'S GO GET IT ON"
"THE ZONE, OWN, YES I'M IN THE ZONE"
"IS IT TWO, THREE? LEAVE A GOOD TIP"
"I'MA BLOW ALL MY MONEY AND DON'T GIVE TWO SH*TS"
"I'M ON THE FLOOR FLOOR I LOVE TO DANCE"

We arrived at the hotel and got to our room and gave Torp his millionaire shortbreads. Torp said, "I have a camera in my car and I recorded your little rave session." Me and Simms looked at each other and nodded in sync. I pounced at Torp and pinned him too the floor and Simms got a bucket of water and poured it all over him.

"Worth it. I sent it to the Coventry media team and it is going onto the tiktok page", Torp said as he dried himself with a towel.

We had tea with the rest of the team in the dining area and returned to our rooms for some activities. We all got into our pyjamas, I got out of my room and entered the living room to be met by 3 guys hysterically laughing.

"Why do you have Pokemon pyjamas, Karl?", Torp said in between breathes and laughter. "Because they are banging.", I responded.

We sat in the living room and as usual I sat on the floor. Torp put on a show called 'Afterlife' on Netflix. We ended up watching 4 episodes and all went to bed, match day tomorrow.

My eyelids lifted up but were quite heavy. I turned off my alarm and got ready for the game. The final. I got my stuff together and into my backpack and got into some clothes. I left my room and walked with the rest of the lads to the bus.

On the bus journey, I talked to Simms and before I knew it we were at Wembley.

Peter Drury's POV

"Tonight is a special occasion. In the big stadium of Wembley the FA Cup final is to commence. It is Coventry and Liverpool.",I said into the microphone.

"and here are the teams. Liverpool start with Alisson in goal, Trent at right back and Robertson on the left.
The two centre backs are Konate and Quansah due to Van Dijk's knock recently. The midfield contains Gravenberch and Mac Allister as the two holding midfielders and Szoboszlai at attacking midfield. The front three consists of Diaz, Nunez and Mohammed Salah."

"On the Coventry line up we have. Dovin in between the sticks. Latibeaudiere,Kitching and Binks at the back. Van Ewijk as a right midfield or wing back and Da Silva as the same but on the opposite flank. Sheaf and Eccles in midfield with Torp as the attacking midfielder and the two men up top are Wright and Simms."