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Ollie disappoints

the Captain

School was OK, and Ollie enjoyed his lessons and found himself putting his hands up and answering questions in class.

When the bell rang at the end of the day, Ollie ran all the way to the changing rooms in the sports hall to get ready for football practice.

With Self-confidence and Self-control on his shoulder, the training session went really well. He ran rings around the other boys and girls and scored three goals!

At the end of the session, the PE teacher called everyone together and said, “Right, time to pick the team for Saturday’s match.”

All the boys and girls were nervous, as they all wanted to be picked. Ollie wanted to play number 10 like Mr Wilcox used to.

The teacher called out the names one at a time and gave them each the shirt they would be wearing on Saturday. When it got to number 10, Ollie felt quite nervous despite Calm and Confidence trying to sit on Nervous and stop him being nervous!

“And number 10 this weekend will be Ollie!”

Ollie started leaping in the air and shrieked “YES!!!!!”

Calm grabbed him and made Ollie settle and stand still again.

“Right,” said the teacher, “and last but not least, our goal keeper this weekend will be Adam Bowler.”

All the boys and girls gasped and shook their heads.