World Cup Fever is here!!
The Canadians are a funny bunch when it comes to footy. Most of them refer to it as Soccer, but if you're English and you mention Football, they know what you mean... i.e. not that NFL malarkey.
However most will pretend that the World Cup is - 'some soccer tourny thing eh?', when in reality the Canadian TV coverage is brilliant. CBC has dedicated itself to airing EVERYmatch live in HD, and has English commentary from Nigel Reed and a couple of English lads for post game analysis - to be honest it's better than the brummy guy from Apprentice and Gareth Southgate - so I'm pleased :).
However I could not bare to enter a 'pub' and not get that proper English patriotic feeling of euphoria that one get's when walking into a local in the UK.
So I invited all the English that I know round on Saturday to watch the first England match (England Vs USA), plus one American :).
OK, so the game was not exactly full of thrills, but we painted our faces, rented 87 pints of local ale (in a keg, with a pump), Kath made steak and kidney pies for everyone and we drank from noon until midnight (those who lasted).
I hope to repeat the process this Friday afternoon and for all the England games to come - we have flags and the house if flying the George Cross proudly.
Andy just gave me two car flags also - I'm wary of putting them on though - for fear of getting the car keyed :)
Come on England!
2 comments:
Rented the beer? Hows does that work? Do you give it back after your done :)
England flags on houses seem to be very popular this time around. It sounds like your coverage is better than ITV:HD who decided to put an advert on at the exact moment England scored.
Whoa!, I was fearful of conercials, yank and Canadian TV is appalling normally with tons of breaks, but not in this case adverts only at half time
lol, yes rented, the keg and pp is rented and must go back once empty, I'm emptying the rest tomorrow for the next England match :)
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