trtl reminded me that it's permissible to talk about the football as the UK are officially supporting the Netherlands in Euro 2008. So you can blame him for this post ( Read more... )

Last night's Holland - Italy match promised to be the first big game of the men's European Football Championship and it did not disappoint! It was a great game and I'm not just saying that 'cos Oranje won 3 - 0. It was delightful to see how the Dutch players worked together as a team. Bad luck for the World Champions, who did more than the lopsided ( Read more... )

Football finals have a reputation for being a bit meh. Teams tend to go into lockdown as soon as they've scored a single goal, which is no fun from a selfish spectator's point of view. However, the women's football World Cup final between Germany and Brazil was pretty exciting, I don't think I've ever shouted at the TV so much before (yes, to my ( Read more... )

Making Money being Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel. The women footballers aren't really making any money as there are bugger all pro leagues for them. Anyway, last weekend = watching football and reading, which is a pretty good combo ( Read more... )

After putting on a halfway decent show against Japan, Argentina handed the game to England in ten minutes. First with an own goal and then with an easy goal from midfielder Jill Scott. England kept up the attack but worryingly didn't score again until early in the second half and that from a penalty, well taken though it was ( Read more... )

BBC2 is providing live coverage of all of England's games in the Women's Football World Cup. More importantly, the BBC also shows the games live online (UK residents only, unfortunately), so I can have the game sitting in the top left-hand corner of my screen. Getting to the "watch live" link is a bit of an Easter Egg hunt though ( Read more... )

My desire to watch sport fluctuates greatly for various reasons. But the World Cup is an event I've really been looking forward to and I was happy to have time today to watch my first game. And what a weird one it was too ( Read more... )

Let's get the most pressing item out of the way first. Zizou, what the bloody hell was that?! Many words have been spent on that bit of madness, but I'd just like to note one small thing. The Guardian reported there had been suggestions Materazzi had called Zidane a terrorist. A couple of Italian newspapers then picked up the ball and ran with it ( ( Read more... )

Instead of writing here, I've been writing articles for the Discworld Convention in obedience to Madam Programme Book Editor. After that, I spent lots of time shouting at a different screen. More at the commentators than at the players, it must be said ( Read more... )

A little bird tells me that there are Ecuadorans in the neighbourhood. (What a racket!)