After 1021 days, 853 Qualifiers, 2,344 goals, and 75 sacked managers, The World Cup is underway, and as I write this blog The South Africans, or The Bafana Bafana as we are going to get used to calling them, are leading Mexico with a spectacular goal from the brilliantly named Tshabalala, leading to our first and in no way the last commentator cliche with:"If that had been scored Brazil we would have been talking about it all night."Honda have ...
We are now only four day away from the greatest show on earth, and it is great to see that the company(Match Hospitality Ltd) where Sepp Blatters nephew Phillipe is President and CEO has won an "open" tender to sell corporate packages, so much for money benefiting the host nation. In my opinion Sepp Blatter and FIFA are corruption personified, but before I get sued I will stop, and let you judge for yourself by reading this article in The ...
We had a cracking day out in the sunshine yesterday. I arranged a cricket match with my old mates at Hartley Wintney which featured no less than six of the Sporting Baughurst FC starting 11 from 1987.We were a bit of a mixed bunch, but we did really well watched by a sizable gathering of villagers as we battled for a draw. Our fielding in particular featured no few than five catches and one near miss which shattered Peter's fingers and left him ...
So the all the auditions are over, and they really were auditions as Theo Walcott has discovered to his cost, and England are down to 23 players to embark on a World Cup journey. Fortunately the elimination of the seven players was not done in an X Factor manner with Simon Cowell having the players lined up before saying "Sorry Theo you're going home" backed by some dreary and pretentious Coldplay track. I made my starting 11 prediction on this ...
My stomach bug appears, at last, to have cleared my system, though strangely I am still struggling to get hungry. I am at Diane's this week house sitting and cat feeding, and whilst cats aren't my favourite mammal, these two are incredibly easy to satisfy, and are not hard work. It's not like looking after a dog for example, they are incredibly clean, and don't need too much attention bar the odd stroke.Anyway, looking at my blog today, I ...