Boing, Boing!

With a rather big event happening in my life tomorrow, and having broached the subject with many of my tgirl friends in the past, I wonder to what extent trannies like sport?

It would certainly appear that many do not and I wonder if the proportion is even lower amongst those that are far along the route to transitioning. I would be interested to know the figures. I know plenty of real girls that do like sport, although I accept that the majority would not enjoy a double-bill of premiership football or rugby. Does this apply equally to tgirls? and if so is it me that is in the minority?

Me I have always enjoyed playing sport, any kind of ball sport, from Tennis, Table Tennis, Squash, (Badminton), Golf, Snooker/Pool, Boules/ Petanque, Football and Rugby being rather in the past but I enjoy watching and reading about them. But talk to some about Wembley tomorrow and they just don’t want to know.

Well for the non-sporting amongst you, and those from far afield, tomorrow my (football) team, West Bromwich Albion, take on Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi-final.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bromwich_Albion_F.C.

West Brom, commonly called WBA, or the Baggies (they were one of the last teams to play in baggie shorts in the fifties) and historically the throstles (emblem is a thrush), are one of 3 championship sides (the English second tier) in the FA Cup semi-finals ~ which is probably unique, Barnsley and Cardiff playing in the other semi. This has been the year of the cup upset with Barnsley knocking out Liverpool and Chelsea, Portsmouth beating Man U away, glorious non league Havant & Waterlooville progressing to the 4^th round and scoring 2 v Liverpool and many others shocks.

The current top 4 of the premiership have won the FA cup in 18 of the last 20 years, so this is our chance! Maybe even our last chance!

West Brom haven’t won it since 1968 and yet, we’ve won it 5 times overall which is 8^th best and one more than Chelsea!, lost a further 5 in the final and have just overtaken Aston Villa in the number of semi-finals (I think that is 4^th best overall).

But at the moment we are 4^th in the Championship and really need to get promotion back to the top flight. Can we do both? Well we did in 1934 (winning div2 as well as the cup) and in 1954 we almost did the double (winning the cup and 2^nd in the league, so history shows we can fire on two fronts.

Tomorrow I shall be taking out my blue and white scarf and my son and I will be off to New Wembley in the hope of glory. I am hoping we will be going ‘Boing! Boing!’ in the aisles, a chant and action peculiar to West Brom fans (as in ‘Boing said Zebedee’ in the magic roundabout) which is a bit like pogo-ing as you imagine you are on a spring.

So there you have the lesson in WBA history. I don’t expect too much support here ~ but I will make a promise to my readers that if we win, my next Tina picture will be with my West Brom scarf!!.

If you’ve got this far, wish me luck!!