July 2012

[El Gordo]

Yeah, what an amazing night.

I always sensed that @sweder was quietly seething that I was at Wembley in 1968 to see Man Utd win the European Cup. But it looks like 1-1 now.

I was actually out for a ricketty plod yesterday evening, and recorded it. When I got back I watched the football live (reassuringly, yet another quarter final lost on a penalty shoot-out), terrified the BBC were going to flash up the results from the Olympic Stadium. But then when they DIDN'T, I started to suspect it was all going wrong in Stratford. It made the reality, once I finally settled down to watch the recording, even more unbelievable.

Even by the normal standards of Sweder's technicolor prose, I fear he is on a hiding to nothing trying to describe that lot. Might be better to say nothing at all. Just pretend it didn't happen.

[There, that should do the trick...]

EDITED -- I spoke too soon. I see that something has indeed appeared on the August thread. Just popping over the fence now.....