Addo Elephant Park
The BBC bus is now at Addo, just north of Port Elizabeth. C and I went there when we went to South Africa. It was a highlight. They are showing more of Addo later. Watch it!
Aussies Get a Pasting from the Germans
It certainly looks that way with just a few minutes to go, but there is nothing that cheers a real Englishman more than Aussies losing. Except possibly a bunch of chippy Scotsmen doing the same!
I know we weren’t that good, but remember where Robert Green learned to keep goal – Norwich City! It was also the altitude, as it’s rather low in Norfolk.
ITV’s Bad Commentary on Ghana – Serbia
No advert mistakes this time, the commentator just missed the action. Perhaps, he was in the studio and not at the game?
So for the rest of the matches on ITV, it’ll be pictures only and commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live
Products I Won’t Ever Buy Again!
As these companies are ruining the football by interrupting it with advert breaks, I won’t be buying their products in future.
- Ladbrokes – I use Betfair
- Bacardi – Be patriotic – Drink Scotch or Irish Whisky
- Lucozade Sport – I bet it’s not gluten-free anyway or has maltodextrin in it.
- Bet365 – I use Betfair
- EASports – Only sad people play computer games
- Shell – Be patriotic – Support your pension and annoy the Americans, by buying BP
- Swiftcover – I’m very satisfied with NFU
- Kia – What’s wrong with my Lotus and Jaguar?
- Audi – See Kia
- British Gas – I might buy their products if they connected me to the gas network
- Gillette Fusion – I have a beard and have had one for over 40 years
- Doritos – When I looked they weren’t gluten-free
- Ford S-Max – See Kia
- Freesat – I’ve got Sky AND Freeview
- Sony Ericson Phones – I’ve got a Nokia 6310i
- WKD – Enough said
- Moonpig – I always have a stock of proper cards – Remember my father was a proper printer and anything printed is a work of art to me.
- Stella Artois – Crap chemical lager, that’s not gluten free. What’s wrong with real ale, like Adnams or Greene King anyway.
- We buy any car – I bet they don’t and you’d getn more selling through eBay or AutoTrader
- Carling – See Stella Artois – A policeman once told me, you never get trouble at a real ale pub.
So they’re rather a load of dead beat no-good products anyway, that the civilised world could do without. It either proves you need advertising to sell rubbish or good products don’t need it. Or perhaps both!
ITV Times The Adverts Wrong Again!
It just goes to prove that advert breaks and sport do not mix!
South Korea, Nigeria and of course England
The teams I’ll support today.
The first was OK, but Nigeria looks a bit dodgy.
Mourinho
I shall be watching the European Cup Final tonight. Sir Bobby’s translator has come far!
Annoying CNN Sports
They have quite a few sports bulletins, but each is interrupted by at least three advert breaks.
The emphasis is all on sports like golf (a pastime), baseball (for over tall people), ice hockey(a waste of space) and baseball (mystifying). The action they show from football is limited and poor and there is no cricket at all.
At least I can get sports news from the BBC web site.
Does the Time Difference Have an Effect?
I’m six hours ahead of the UK here and seven of Europe. So if I watch the cricket on Cricinfo or talk to friends at home, this tends to move my day backwards. I think it makes me tired and a bit stressed.
I suppose it’s a bit like jet-lag.
They do it differently in Holland
This was in today’s Sun.
Apparently Heinekin are not pleased as Bavaria came up with the idea. But the Dutch do like their orange.
Tey’re both crap beers, as I’m a coeliac.
The Anonymous Widower 