Posts Tagged ‘Football’
Attention sports fans
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on February 15th, 2009
Today we were lucky enough to have two different popular team sports showing on terrestrial television. Ireland vs. Italy in the Six Nations rugby and Manchester United vs. Derby County in the FA cup football (soccer).
And what a neat comparison it makes: a poor game of rugby in the second half was infinitely more entertaining than a good game of soccer that followed. To such an extent, in fact, that I have now given up watching the soccer game in favour of a bit of writing.
Let’s have televised rugby union on the terrestrial channels and let’s complete the hand-over from soccer to rugby which professional union initiated not so long ago.
England lose, Spain win
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on February 11th, 2009
There may be only seven teams better than England at football in the world aside from Spain, but one thing is for certain, Spain are better than England.
I didn’t wait until the end to see if ITV could lose the picture again, and show adverts, but I’m sure they are not as good at showing football as Sky, Setanta or the BBC.
Green questions
Posted by: Gav in Uncategorized on June 10th, 2008
Everyone who cares about the environment (which I do despite my disagreements with left-wing environmentalists) must ask questions like this, but does anyone really know the answer?
The other day I was filling the kettle and accidentally overfilled it. So in an effort not to waste electricity I emptied the kettle down to the level where it contained enough water for the two cups I was making. My girlfriend asked whether I had done the right thing: Had I wasted more energy in wasting cleaned water than I had saved in not causing the kettle to stay on longer?
The question is a reasonable one. And it is a similar question to many others we all must ask as we go about our daily lives. So if human-caused climate change is such a big issue, why isn’t the results of research into these things being made available?
One final comment: I would like to apologise; my stats tell me that a small number of you have visited here almost every day since my last post — thank you and sorry for the delay in resuming service. Oh, and if you saw the Netherlands, Italy game last night, lucky you. Wasn’t it great?!
I prefer rugby
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on November 22nd, 2007
And this latest return to form for the English football team will probably bolster take-up of rugby among school children and those aspiring to be stars. I have rarely commented about football on this blog but I feel that it is only too appropriate right now.
First, I think the commentary was wholly unfair when it came to David Beckham. Commentators and pundits all said that Crouch was the only player on form, but I believe Beckham, when he came on eventually, was outstanding.
Second, I must share with you this exclusive scoop from Southern Counties Radio just now. They know the name of the next England coach. Obviously it needs to be a safe pair of hands, someone the English can rely upon. Most of all it needs to be someone we can trust and someone who rarely makes a wrong move.
That is why it will be Alistair Darling.
Rhain Davis
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on August 3rd, 2007
According to the video he’s ‘British’. I hope that’s ignorant for “English” and not ignorant for “Welsh” because he’s too damn good. Enjoy:
He’s nine years old and been signed by Manchester United!
Good Day for Pete
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on May 19th, 2007
He knows who he is. Chelsea completed an excellent domestic cup double today with a sublime shot by Drogba.
Peter will be happy.
British National Anthem
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on September 2nd, 2006
Again, the bloody British National Anthem damaging the beginning of the game.
Britain and England are not the same — let’s have an anthem as Scotland and Wales do, for England.
Arsenal last night
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on August 24th, 2006
ITV4 managed to lose the signal while Arsenal scored their first goal and, because I taped it, that meant I missed the goal completely…
Brazillian Name?
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on July 15th, 2006
Something a bit more light hearted now:
What’s your Brazillian name? Find out
