Wow, I say myself. I've been doing this for a while. I decided to start a few days after the official 1000 days to go was marked. I originally said I would not keep this up every day. I thought I would do it weekly or at milestone days...950, 900 etc. Now I worry if the day is coming to an end and I haven't written anything.
It was an English football weekend. Yesterday Pep masterminded a win over Jose once again. But, ah, the embrace was so warm. However, I bet that many in the media wished there was a refused handshake or an angry exchange of words. Without any controversy, the sports writing folk had to make something up about Man. United's terrible tactics as an excuse for why Manchester City looked like they were going through a training routine for most of the match. There was a little bit of after match entertainment in Pep's praise of City's new goalkeeper, Claudio Bravo. A proud manager has to stand by his much sought-after man. However, it was hilarious that he could praise that performance. Pep was said to be a big fan of Bravo's ability with the ball at his feet. Based on what we saw yesterday, he's terrible in the air with his hands and looks a bit lost when trying to do anything with a football at his feet.
Today I was back to the search for an online stream to watch Aston Villa's new expensive signings put a few goals past poor Nottingham Forest. Armed with a laptop and an hdmi connecting wired I hunted all over the internet in between pop-up ads and warnings that my laptop was about to explode unless I contacted the saviour offering his phone number while my phone kept me updated on all the goals I was missing. When I thought I was close I then had to figure out how to get what was on my little screen onto the TV. It was all to no avail anyway. The 90 minutes were up and I was still searching. Forest, meanwhile, very cheekily equalised late on and Villa's stirring comeback from a goal down went flat. At least it wasn't Nicklas Bendtner who scored for Forest. There's a player with a story, or two, for another day.
The upshoot of my morning experience was that I was all technologically prepared for the US Open tennis final in the evening. This techy business might not be that far fetched for me after all.
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