Represent Photo’s: Barcelona v Sundowns
For those of us that never got to see the match last week, enjoy our photostory! Our man Adi represented – 2 hour traffic, stadium packed to (over) capacity and great football with an electric incredible energy- we certainly won’t be missing the next one. We can’t wait for 2010!!! See the photies here.. On Wednesday night I went with a group of six people to see Barcelona take on Mamelodi Sundowns at Loftus Versveld. I am normally very much of the opinion that watching sport on television is the way to go: better angles, no traffic and that kind of thing. Two reasons led to me saying yes to the invitation. Firstly, the friend who asked me is constantly organizing things from which I generally flake out and, secondly, Ronaldinho was going to be there. For me, and about 5,96 billion people, he is the ultimate footballer. The other 36 million is the population of Argentina who still think Maradona is the guy. FC Barcelona was recently rated as one of the top six club sides ever to play the game, according to a recent poll conducted on my couch. The others are Liverpool, Manchester United, AC Milan, Real Madrid and the legendary Norwood Eagles under-nine team of the late 1980’s. Couple this with the fact that, some-the-hell-how, Sundowns managed to get them to Pretoria fielding a first string side and you have the reason why I was willing to go bumper to bumper from Killarney all the way to the city of embassies, gravy trains and the mighty Blue Balls. With my friend Mario in the car we had ample time to figure out the following truths en route: everyone listens to 702, Jackie Selebi and Tony Yengeni are sinister fools, nobody invites me to poker anymore, and we need Winston Churchill to sort out the Taxi industry. Three members of our group have names ending in the letter O, and somewhere in this it was organized that we could park at the Italian Embassy, a Cape Dutch building two blocks from Loftus. From here we walked to the stadium. The game was a sellout – think Celine Dion, not Hansie Cronje. By 19:55, 60 000 spectators were crammed into 59 999 seats. Up to a thousand ticket holders weren’t allowed inside because it turns out that the officials tasked with gate control were making thousands of rand selling entry to non-ticket holders. Imagine how happy Frau Eva Schweinsteiger will be when she flies here to see her little Bastian play his last World Cup, only to find that her seat has been sold by the guy from...
Cricket – Final word from Alfie of YFM
Pheww, THE CRICKET WORLD CUP finally came to an end on Saturday – for me the highs & lows of this World cup were most definitely the death of The Pakistan Coach, South African Bob Woolmer, who was found murdered in his Hotel Room, GIBBS six 6’s, The South African Team’s drinking Spree, The fat wobbly comical player from Bermuda who was the oldest player at the World Cup, Australia’s unbeatan run since the 1999 World Cup, India & Pakistan’s First Round Exit & Bangladesh’s victory over South Africa. By far Australia showed that they were the best from the rest of the Cricket World when they ended the tournament unbeaten & making history by having a hat-trick of World Cup wins. The Australian Captain RICKY PONTING was right when he said that out of all the matches they played not even one of them was looked at as a close game & he was right. I think they dominated from their first game & for me the heavy rain that came down meant the end of one of the most rememorable World Cups in the History of the game – from The Unfinished Stadiums, Heavy Ticket Prices to the Death of Bob Woolmer. The World Cup Curtain has closed & we hope to catch you again in four years time… ************************* So it’s over. We urged, supported, believed and enjoyed every moment of the Cricket World Cup. We were astounded by the incredible power and strength of Australia last night as they gave us a pounding that the team will need a lot of Caribbean rum to even begin recovering from. Congrats to the Ozzies on their win. We’d like to thank the equally optimistic Alfie Phokobye for his generous and entertaining commentary throughout the series… We wish him luck as his sporting star continues to rise. Represent! Alfie: I’m normally very talkative & very chirpy. well today I dont know where to start. I mean the australians dominated in all department & if u remember properly, I said on my column yesterday that they’ve got a psychological adverntage & boy did it work. The only thing that South Africa won yesterday was the toss & it was really sad to see the likes of Smith & Kallis go out the way they did, It really showed that their game plan wasn’t working & attacking the Aussie bowlers was out of the question but they kept on using the same game plan & were rolled over by a team that I think its the best Cricket Team I’ve ever seen in my life. We must all remember that this...
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