Sheffield United star invents incredible game to get us all through lockdown
We’ve seen various challenges fill up our social media timelines, but one Sheffield United player could well have come up with something that will get us all through the remainder of the lockdown.
Early on in isolation Ben Osborn offered his best ‘Finchy’ impression by throwing a kettle – or a milk jug – over his house.
Now he’s invented a game himself...and it’s brilliant.
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Hide AdHe told the Talk Derby To Me podcast: “I’ve been playing plenty of games; played Monopoly last week.
“I have invented a couple of games, teabag curling is probably the best game ever.”
‘Teabag curling’?
“So you clear the table and get a teabag each and you have to lob it on and get it to the closest to the end of the table without falling off,” Osborn explains.
“You get three goes and you can stick or twist. So if you’re happy with your first go you say, ‘look, I’m leaving that.’
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Hide Ad“But if not, you keep going until you’re happy up until your third go.
“But you can also knock someone else’s teabag off, so it’s endless fun. Endless.”
On the lack of football at present Derby-born Blades midfielder Osborne told the podcast: “We have had a mad schedule still...Monday to Friday has been pretty much the same and then we’ve had weekends off. I’ve still got a schedule, it’s just no games or not going in. It’s just not knowing when we are actualy going to start playing again which is the weird thing.”
“Unfortunately the coronavirus pandemic came just as I was about to get my first start. I was getting a bit more game time. It just feels like I am in the off season. That’s what it feels like a little bit but it’s starting to get a little bit tedious.”