Cheeku
The Football World Cup have started and so has its fever. I never understood football. But when you joined the school football team and went to play district tournaments I realized the game had a lot of energy. You not only brought football into my life but as years progressed you showed me the excitement that it generated. The first time in 2002 I saw you so excited when the World Cup started-There were all those strange sounding names that you would shout as the matches progressed. Ronaldo-yes, he was your favourite.
But even before the 2002 matches, I remember whenever I went travelling abroad, you would always want me to bring back football shirts worn by these stars and in the colours of their clubs…at one point it was AC Milano, remember? Then the colours of Brazil…
This year as the World Cup has started I sit and watch all the matches…I watch them because I know you would be by my side watching them too as Tubby isshouting and laughing out loud as his brother…in him there is so much of you…And every time there is a goal I see you take off your shirt in great excitement, shouting and twirling it above your head…
In those moments, I relive my life as it was, as it ought to have been…with Cheeku and Tubby by my side…and realize that one side of my existence is and will always be vacant-a space that only you could have occupied…and I miss you so much…
Dad