Alofi, Niue

Day -586. WorldCup2018

I'll blame it on the unusual late night out or the fact that I was looking forward to Toronto FC's 2nd leg Eastern Conference semifinal tonight, but I woke up to the realisation that I missed my normal post-before-going-to-bed ritual last night.

I'm trying to justify my lateness, with the old excuse of, "well I'm sure it's still yesterday somewhere in the world." But, alas, it's not. The closest are the islands in the Pacific, such as. Alofi, the capital of Niue. It's 12.50am there so I was close.

Niue has a football team. They are not members of Fifa, but are associate members of the OFC, the Oceania confederation. They have played two matches on record, both at the South Pacific Games in 1983. It wasn't a happy experience. They lost 19-0 and 14-0 to Papua New Guniea and Tahiti respectively.

So there's my silver lining: because I was late, I have put a name to one of those many Pacific Islands.