Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
King's Platter
It's been an unusual weekend. Yesterday especially was topsy turvy. After cycling 1:45 (just under 50km) I went to a lunch which turned into a feast:
Chops, sosaties, boerewors, salads (avo/beetroot/sweet potatoes), followed by a desert that included ice cream and custard, with chocolate cake and cappuccino coffee a little later. Wine and sodas fuelled already restless braincell activity. Meanwhile there was a heated debate at the table that started with a chance comment on 9/11 and escalated into Fundamentalistic Ideology. The debators included a director at Rand Merchant Bank, a preacher, and me!
Then we watched the rugby; what a storming game. Brian Lima was funny. He concussed himself in a brutal dive he'd premeditated. Looked like he only managed to hurt himself. I think he was on the field for less than 5 minues.
After the rugby I got roped into a dinner meal/homecell thing. We had another major debate based on an issue I raised: faith + works as opposed to faith only. Fortunately there was quite a loot of feel-good banter to balance out the heavy-serious stuff.
The dinner comprised roast lamb with mint sauce, salads, strawberry and cream dessert along with capucinnos once more.
Interesting: the rugby world cup has an audience of 75 million.
The cricket world cup: 87 million.
The third most popular/watched sporting event in the world is cycling (Tour de France).
2nd is the Olympics with hundreds of millions of viewers, and 1 in 9 of Earth's population watch Soccer (around 700 million).
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