The weekend was full of food, as befits Thanksgiving. There was also a fair amount of football, also fitting. I'm watching the last of that now: I thought I had one fantasy game under control and another was a lost cause, but bizarrely, the games switched places while I wasn't looking. (I can't believe I'm going to lose my game in the RPGnet league ( Read more... )

The new Fifa rankings came out today and New Zealand was the big winner, jumping 24 spots to number 54. Congratulations to the All Whites!

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Germany have been the shining light of a pretty ugly finals series, that's for sure. Here's to you, Germany!

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Party in my hotel room?

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I'm becoming a bit disillusioned by the way the World Cup is becoming ugly. The second half of the Brazil v Netherlands game was certainly messy, scrappy and generally poor from both sides. Between the Dutch exaggerating every contact to draw yellow cards, the Brazilians protesting clear fouls, and both sides hanging like an under-15 social team, ( Read more... )

If you want to avoid spoilers, you really shouldn't be looking at lj anyway, but nevertheless... I just got back from the pub.
( World Cup Spoilers )

Drinking: Aberlour ten year old Speyside.

Writing: A summary of Collar's hypothesis on the network spread of the cult of Jupiter Dolichenus.

Planning: To watch the late game tomorrow morning; Spain v Portugal.

And you?

[Furthermore, TVNZ's World Cup highlights are pants. That is all.]

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I just watched the England vs Germany and Argentina vs Mexico games at a local pub. As far as choice of favourite was concerned, the two games were a huge win for Germany with a host of pretty goals and no negative play from them. That wrongly disallowed England goal was a pity, but that's football ( Read more... )

I bet the pessimist who wrote the headline "New Zealand's Greatest Sporting Moment" after the Slovakia game is kicking himself now! What now? "The Most Greatestest of anything EVAR"! Too soon mate, too soon. When we beat Paraguay, then maybe I'll give it to you ( Read more... )

After arising at 3am to a first breakfast of marmite on toast, I made my way to 25 Degrees whereupon I feasted on a breakfast burger and 94 minutes of New Zealand soccer history. Obviously, I'm disappointed we didn't get three points, but to be competitive for the whole game against a quality European side and to get the first final-whistle dream- ( Read more... )

I ended up at The Sports Cafe for the Superbowl. I looked in on Four Kings on the way past but it was a bit of a dive, and not in a good (rustic) way. In a "sure, that one wall is showing a lot of sport on all those screens, but none of them are very big and there weren't many places to sit where you could see them" kind of way ( Read more... )