They are not for England, at least not the England football team. The way in which we lost was the worst part although the players afterwards trying to insist that they'd played well in our worst ever World Cup defeat was a close second. Ho hum. I'm supporting Japan now as they play intelligently, courageously and with great resilience. Plus they ( Read more... )

Phew. The England match took place while I was in the office so I had to put up with it being streamed in over iPlayer - unfortunately a few million other people had the same idea so the service was a wee bit patchy. 93 minutes of unrelenting tension, willing the team on. Mind you, I think the Americans had it harder, watching attack after attack ( Read more... )

There are draws and there are draws. Score in the first five minutes, concede the softest of goals and it feels like a loss. Concede two but fight back level and have a winner dubiously ruled out and it feels like a moral victory. Play a dirge of a match that lacks any sense of passion, quality or skill and it feels like you lost 0-0.

So technically ( Read more... )

Oops. I set up a Facebook account ages ago, purely to see the pictures uploaded of my nephew there. Helen added me as a friend and then as boyfriend which I accepted a mere three years later. However, when I created the account, the idea was that it wouldn't be linked to me (Helen again blowing that one out of the water) so I used a dummy name ( ( Read more... )

The World Cup 2010. I'm not quite where the idea that geeks can't be sports fans came from but there's plenty of us passionate about both. I've been doing my studying in the run up to the competition and now feel I can tell my Shane Smeltzs apart from my Eyong Enohs. Being an England fan is quite like being a Liverpool fan - you sort of know that ( Read more... )