Well it looks like the World Cup is over, it must be, there are markedly fewer cars around sporting German flags. Someone somewhere must be making a quilt.
As you have probably gussed, I am not a great football fan.
I did start to watch the Germany Italy match, but after 10 minutes of nothing really happening, I grew bored and went back to NASA TV and watched the shuttle perform its first orbital correction.
What I did see though was that a new rule has been added to the game since I played it in school. I haven’t seen the wording yet, but it must be something like:
“If you are tackled and loose the ball, throw yourself to the ground in the most spectacular way you can manage.” It seems that if the fall is spectacular enough, the referee will give you the ball back.
I was very impressed with some of the falls, being really convinced that the player had at least a complex fracture of the fibula, only to see the player get up totally unhurt. Really amazing….. This really must be suggested as an Olympic discipline. Points could be awarded for air time, number of ground rolls, and how convincing the expression of pain was…
So the World Cup? As far as I can tell the situation is a follows
- England (My home country) Out…
- Germany (My country of residence) Out…
- Portugal (Age old allies…) Out…
That leaves me with the choice of France or Italy to support in the final.
mmmm Maybe NASA can launch something on Sunday?
