I've decided that it makes more sense for me to support Bahrain. They're playing Saudi Arabia tonight, with the winner going on to play New Zealand for a place in the world cup finals. And the second of their two games against New Zealand is on the last day of the World Memory Championship in November - it would have been a great double sporting event if only they hadn't changed the venue. Just picture it, we could have had all the excitement of the speed cards, then sat around watching the footy and impressing the press people with memorisation of international football trivia. It would have been in all the papers.
Except I would doubtless have gone to bed early, because I'm always dead on my feet after the final day of the world championships, and missed everything.
Postscript: Bahrain scored an equaliser in the last minute of injury time to win on the away goals rule! Yay! Go... whatever the national football team of Bahrain are popularly known as!
weren't you into american baseball some time ago?
ReplyDeleteI still am! I'm not quite so fickle in my affections that I drop a sporting interest just like that. It's just that it's impossible to watch baseball on British TV, so I don't get much opportunity to talk about it...
ReplyDeletethat's true. I'd have to get expensive pay tv to see my favourite sports as well...let's raise car taxes for cheaper television :)
ReplyDelete