Tomorrow, I'll be flying off to Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and will stay there for 7 weeks. My bags are (nearly) packed, I've started taking my ridiculously expensive malaria tablets and I'm running around trying to get the last few things sorted before I leave.
Until then, this blog will be on hiatus and you can follow what I get up to at:
http://carolineintanzania2010.blogspot.com/
So until September 22nd, goodbye!
Friday 30 July 2010
Tuesday 13 July 2010
The Obligatory World Cup Post
(Disclaimer: I do not pretend to know anything about football)
Congratulations Spain. Although Holland was one of ‘my’ teams since the beginning, after the 7th man got booked I thought they were aiming for the full set of yellow cards. Still I’m not going to dwell on the performance of particular teams and instead going to tell you what I’ve noticed during this world cup.
First of all there are awards to go to the players with the best names: Kevin and Jerome Prince-Boateng (Ghana and Germany) come in a close joint second with Giovanni van Bronckhurst of the Netherlands (purely because his name is Giovanni) but the winner is: Julio Cesar of Brazil for a name with an unfortunate historical precedent (by the way, I know its pronounced Hulio but it still works).
Then there is the award for the best quote of the World Cup which goes to my mother who said suddenly towards the end of the Uruguay-Holland game ‘Oh its a number board- I thought Hublot was playing in a lot of games’.
Stupidest moment: me not realising until the England-Germany game that the man I thought was Michael Owen was in fact Steven Gerrard.
Now onto my theory about the skill of teams like Spain and the South Americans in particular but this also can include people like France and Portugal. Take a look at these players:
:Carles Puyol (Spain)
:Diego Forlan (Uruguay)
Both supposedly good football players (or so I’m told- I’m no expert) but what else do they have in common? Ridiculously stupid, long hair. Now what is the significance of them both having a hairstyle that was best left in the seventies I hear you ask? Well, it seems to me that of the top teams in the world only one has players that don’t sport long hair as far as I’m aware (Germany) and during the high point of his career David Beckham had famously wavy locks. Therefore I have come to the conclusion that football players must be like Samson; their strength comes from their hair. After reaching a certain skill level they can progress to wearing an Alice-band; a symbolic halo of footballing achievement. Break it and you break their hold over international football.
Now look at the England players:
:Wayne Rooney
:Frank Lampard
:Steven Gerrard (who does slightly resemble Michael Owen if you squint a bit)
Notice anything they have in common; short hair. Maybe during their winter off they should consider a new look. By 2014 they should be unstoppable.
Congratulations Spain. Although Holland was one of ‘my’ teams since the beginning, after the 7th man got booked I thought they were aiming for the full set of yellow cards. Still I’m not going to dwell on the performance of particular teams and instead going to tell you what I’ve noticed during this world cup.
First of all there are awards to go to the players with the best names: Kevin and Jerome Prince-Boateng (Ghana and Germany) come in a close joint second with Giovanni van Bronckhurst of the Netherlands (purely because his name is Giovanni) but the winner is: Julio Cesar of Brazil for a name with an unfortunate historical precedent (by the way, I know its pronounced Hulio but it still works).
Then there is the award for the best quote of the World Cup which goes to my mother who said suddenly towards the end of the Uruguay-Holland game ‘Oh its a number board- I thought Hublot was playing in a lot of games’.
Stupidest moment: me not realising until the England-Germany game that the man I thought was Michael Owen was in fact Steven Gerrard.
Now onto my theory about the skill of teams like Spain and the South Americans in particular but this also can include people like France and Portugal. Take a look at these players:
:Carles Puyol (Spain)
:Diego Forlan (Uruguay)
Both supposedly good football players (or so I’m told- I’m no expert) but what else do they have in common? Ridiculously stupid, long hair. Now what is the significance of them both having a hairstyle that was best left in the seventies I hear you ask? Well, it seems to me that of the top teams in the world only one has players that don’t sport long hair as far as I’m aware (Germany) and during the high point of his career David Beckham had famously wavy locks. Therefore I have come to the conclusion that football players must be like Samson; their strength comes from their hair. After reaching a certain skill level they can progress to wearing an Alice-band; a symbolic halo of footballing achievement. Break it and you break their hold over international football.
Now look at the England players:
:Wayne Rooney
:Frank Lampard
:Steven Gerrard (who does slightly resemble Michael Owen if you squint a bit)
Notice anything they have in common; short hair. Maybe during their winter off they should consider a new look. By 2014 they should be unstoppable.
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