The Anonymous Widower

Who do I Support in Angola?

It is strange the rules you apply to decide which team to support in the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.

Take Egypt against Nigeria.

Egypt is a country, where I enjoyed a good gluten-free holiday at Luxor and is somewhere I’ll go to again.  Nigeria on the other hand is a country I’ve never visited and from which I get endless spam, named after article 419 in their penal code. (To be fair to Nigeria, they are doing their best to stop the spam!)

But I supported Nigeria for no apparent reason!

Now, I’m watching Benin against Mozambique.

Here it’s Mozambique. 

I was in Trinidad and happened to be staying at a hotel, where there was a Speakers’ Conference of all the Commonwealth countries.  At breakfast I was in the queue with a guy whose badge said he was an official of the Mozambique parliament! 

But then they aren’t in the Commonwealth are they?

Oh yes they are!  And when I questioned the guy about it, he told me how important the Commonwealth were to his country in providing aid and specialist advisors. He made some comment about the Commonwealth sending a sole advisor who knew his stuff, whilst the UN sent one who didn’t with a useless entourage.

Another thing I remember at this conference was Betty Boothroyd, who was doing a sterling job at making everybody’s time a good and productive one.  She was always immaculately dressed and at breakfast I asked my wife, a barrister, who was the scruffy bloke with Miss Boothroyd. She choked on her muesli, laughed and said it was Derry Irving.  He was definitely second class to Miss Boothroyd!

January 12, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | Africa, Football, Politics