Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon

[poliphilo]

I didn't watch the England-Germany match. It was a sunny day, so I sat in the yard and read about the execution of Louis XVI. Louis was a lousy politician but a man of personal courage and dignity. He made a good show on the scaffold- just like Charles I. After a while I heard whistles and cheering and assumed England had scored- and so they had- only Germany had already scored twice- with two more to come. Frankly, I'm not surprised. Later I watched Ray Davies (on the BBC) singing his biggest hits at Glastonbury- on the pyramidal stage, with the Tor on the skyline. We may be useless at football, but we're really good at pop music.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Overlooked in all the gloom is the quite extraordinary news that our cricketers have been comprehensively thrashing the Aussies.

We've picked the wrong national game to obsess about.

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

Don't we always? *g* Though I'm afraid that for me, cricket is a good picnic spoiled, in the same way that golf is a good walk ruined. ;-)

Just kidding. The one-day matches can be fun and I used to love watching Dickie Bird hopping about whenever the scores stuck on 111. LOL. In fact we used (some years ago now) to watch the TV with the sound turned down and listen to the radio commentary, which was far more entertaining.

Aah, well, it's nice to know the cricketers are having a decent time at least.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Test cricket is the ultimate game. I love how it lasts for days and just how much psychology and morale and stuff like that come into it.

Of course, it can also be insufferably tedious.

But so, in my humble submission, is football.