Day -389 WorldCup2018
I think of stuff all day and then late at night try to put it all together. Or what I remember.
Final day of the English season became even more boringly predictable
when Liverpool went 1-0 up just before halftime against Middlesbrough.
From then on the relegated team with absolute nothing to play for tried
to put up a fight but by the end both teams were playing at pre-season
friendly pace. Any talk of Liverpool putting in a great Champions League
spot-clinching performance would be a little exaggerated. Middlesbrough
had absolutely no motivation to play today. Memories of my argument
about the English press making a big deal of England winning the 5th
test of the Ashes series when they were already 4-0 down came to mind.
The Australians could be said to have been playing for the pride of a
whitewash, and the Middlesbrough players for their own pride in the
final match in the Premier League, but pride goes out the window once
you are losing and the fight just isn't there.
Real Madrid won
the Spanish league, even though Barcelona tried to make it interesting
by coming back from 0-2 against Eibar to win 4-2. It wasn't even really
that interesting because Real were winning comfortably in Malaga. So
Barca shouldn't even have bothered. Maybe pride did come into play. A
loss at home to Eibar as Real were crowned champions might have been too
embarrassing.
It's a holiday here tomorrow, when Canadians
celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday by not going to work and buying
cheap fireworks and letting them off in any open space and many back
yards. I believe that if it is really a celebration of a British monarch
then the Canadian government should insist with it's British
counterpart that there is English football played on the Monday. What is
a lazy, stay at home morning without football on TV? There is nothing
on tomorrow. Next week, on the English Bank Holiday Monday, English
people get to watch the richest football match in the world, the
Championship play-off final. What a great day: get up late, eat a
combination of breakfast and lunch, go to the pub/friends house/have
friends come over and have a few afternoon drinks while watching
Huddersfield and Reading battle it out for the right to battle against
relegation from the Premier League next season. But they will earn a lot
of money doing it. We don't even have an MLS match tomorrow, nothing.
Last night our choice of family movie was the story of a man from
Algeria walking his cow to Paris to enter it in the Paris Agricultural
Show. It was silly, heart warming and entertaining. And it reminded me
of one of the best memories of the last World Cup: how much fun it was
to watch Algeria play, how much energy and passion they played with. And
how it allowed to call upon my Algerian roots and be a fan. They're in a
tough spot in qualifying this time round and need a bit of a miracle to
make it. So I might just have to be happy with what happened in 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2npnALmX0G0&app=desktop
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