Great news this morning as Rogers Sportsnet has ponied up the fee and provided Canada with this game, a World Cup qualifier, for free boradcast rather than pay per view. 36 minutes to go. Wales is in very good shape to take the game to its bigger neighbour with a true golden generation of players including Giggs, Speed and Bellamy. Against them, England is playing three strikers manchild Rooney (aka Shrek), the turncoat Welshman real benchwarming Owen and the delightful Jermain Defoe who plays for the undelightful Tottenham. Actually, these three strikers play for three of my least liked teams. With Owen that word playing is a bit of a fiction as he has been riding the bench since he moved to Spain to play for the former favorites of the Franco fascists. Mucho cheering for Wales. Leek eating later today a real possibility.
Scotland, suffering under the years of a less than golden generation, play Norway today. Mucho praying for Scotland.
Comments
Alan - October 9, 2004 1:20 PM
2-0 for England. Well deserved win. The first goal was a common deflection sort of fluke but the second by Beckham was real loveliness. Rooney looked like Gretzky, making people around him fall. He is the real thing.
Alan - October 9, 2004 1:23 PM
Scotland lost as well but only 0-1 against Norway.
Alan - October 9, 2004 1:30 PM
Maybe Canada will be able to save itself from utter embarassment.
'nee - October 9, 2004 7:15 PM
I just don't get sports. I mean, they're fun to play, but ... I don't get it. Am I missing a gene or something?
Alan - October 10, 2004 9:19 AM
I think watching the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals last night, pushing back elimination from the play-offs one more day, was a great example of why sports ought to be got as part of any well rounded human experience. Here are some of the things it let me experience:<ul><li>Watching Jose Lima, the pitcher for the Dodgers who was in the minors last year, get a complete game shutout while not wavering from his ideosyncratic style of exuberant non-stop talking, fidgeting, gesticulating and advice-giving. </li><li>Considering the loveliness of the uniforms of both the Dodgers and the Cardinals, how there cannot be another sports team with two large red birds on the front of their shirts, how both may very well be exactly as they looked 75 years ago.</li><li>Considering how much I have enjoyed Dodgers and Cardinals games over the years but how CBC's rejection of support for the Expos in favour of the Jays led to Canada focusing more on the American League and in large part to the demise of the Expos.</li><li>Thinking how grand it would be to be in a stadium of tens of thousands on a night like that.</li><li>Thinking of a great friend I haven't kept up with who loved and likely still loves the Dodgers.</li></ul>