Tuesday 31st July

Ait of a dull day with rain, we are taking it easy this morning, watching the show jumping stage of the three day eventing and we win another Silver, with a chance of more medals in the individual later.

Miss O doing some washing and we are working out our best route to Eton Dorney,near Slough tomorrow for the rowing. It is great you get free travel cards on all days you have events.

Getting ready to support Team GB later against Brazil, they will probably be playing of some 70.000 fans at Wembley,must be the biggest crowd for woman's football in this country. A win will put us top of the group with a more favourable route to hopefully the final.

Day 4 –

Well what an eventful day this turned out to be. After
watching the eventing team secure silver and having bit of a chilled day we
begin our journey to Wembley. The journey there is uneventful and as ever all
the volunteers are as helpful as ever, little did we know what the return
journey would bring!!! We arrive with a couple of hours to spare before the
7.45pm kick-off and have the chance to watch the atmosphere build.

We were there to make history – first ever GB Women’s Game
at Wembley, biggest ever crowd in UK to watch women’s footie (70,584) you never
know if they keep going we may break the world record!

The teams come on the pitch and the players seem abit in awe
as they take pictures of themselves on the pitch, must be a real surreal moment
for them. The crowd number swell and we are lucky enough (not) to have a group
of around 20 /30 kids take their places behind us and they begin their
screeching support which although amusing is also very shrill on our ears (I
did at one point ask a child if it wasn’t their bedtime!)

The players take to the pitch and the national anthems are
played. Only a few minutes in and we score the noise is amazing and the crowd
are then buzzing for the rest of the match. We both think there is so long to
go as Brazil mount wave upon wave of attacks, however only one real threat on
goal, the half takes forever and the half time whistle comes and we are still
one up.

The second half seems to fly by and we play really well,
taking the initiative and playing some great stuff, we are awarded a penalty
and we think this is it, two up and there will be no way back for Brazil, sadly
though the keeper saves a not so great penalty. There are some half chances
either end and there is some pretty cynical fouls from Brazil.

The final whistle blows and we have won, the crowd stays
behind to cheer and applaud the team on their lap of honour, a great chance now
as we have Canada in the quarters. We have tickets for the semis so hope if
they get through that they are back at Wembley, however the draw is so complex
we are struggling to work that one out. Carney was magnificent on the night as
was Little in the second half. Dare we believe Olympic football glory could be
on the cards.

We leave Wembley in high spirits after the game finishes
(about 9.30pm), we shuffle our way with
the crowds to Wembley Park to get the tube back into London, we pass several
lovely Police horses who have left plenty of manure for us to trudge though,
perhaps we will grow a few inches overnight. We get to the tube station about
10.40pm, from Wembley Park we travel to Baker Street on a tube packed so full
you can understand how sardines must feel in a can. We get off there and move
round to get the final tube to Bayswater.

Oh no at this point Miss O realises her bag is open and her
purse is gone, we sit there in some dismay and cannot believe some little
scroat has done this!!!! Once at Bayswater we report the theft. Miss O is then
at the station to report it to the transport police on the phone which we don’t
realise will take forever as she answers all their questions. Julie goes off to get supplies but cannot
source any wine to toast the victory or calm us after the theft due to shops
not selling past 11pm. Eventually we get back to the apartment just after
midnight, we luckily have the remnants of a bottle of wine remaining and toast
a rather more eventful day than we have expected. Miss O cancelled the couple
of cards she had on her and as she only had £15 with her all is not too bad.
Luckily we don’t carry everything with us when we go away and tend to use
holiday purses that don’t have all that stuff you keep in your normal ones.

After chilling for a bit and the obligatory Olympic catch up
on TV we decide it’s time to crash at 2am, we are up at 5am for the rowing so
not much sleep to be had!!!

The other good news is we take two GB flags out and we
return with two!!!