Posted by sean on June 11, 2009 at 10:27 pm in England, Ventures Outside Of Bath, Work Activities with No Comments


Yesterday was a ‘team building exercise’ at work… well, a trip to Wembley Stadium, for Karl, Adam and myself.

I left work with Karl and we made the trip east towards the nation’s capital. Due to tube strikes, we were expecting traffic problems of mammoth proportions – we were not wrong.

To cut a very long story short, we made an extremely difficult trip through the streets of grid-locked London all the way to Victoria Station, found Adam who had spent the day in Kent, and then drove through further stalled traffic, all the way to Wembley Stadium; pissing off fellow commuters, cyclists and pedestrians along the way. Karl’s driving may have been a little erratic, but we were not prepared to miss the England game. Plus, what’s wrong with a little Grand Theft Auto: London in real life?


A typical London traffic jam
Note the selfish **** in the white van blocking various rows of traffic!

Looking back on things now, I don’t for the life of me know how we (or rather, Karl) did it. In a massive, unfamiliar city – the only recognised street names being those on a Monopoly board. Rush hour. Tube strikes. No GPS signal. A missing friend. A lesser man would still be lost now!

On our London tour, we drove through the very richest areas of the city – the kind of place all the wealthy pop stars and football players live (and bankers used to). We also drove through the ghettos of London (where the bankers live now) – lots of dirty looking grocery shops and cafes, which look like they would infect you with the plague if you ate there; all below flats with boarded up windows – no doubt housing 1,000s of illegal immigrants. It was certanly an education! I wouldn’t like to walk those streets at night though – or the day for that matter.

We got to Wembley a tad late, but found our parking spot and ran to the stadium, only to find England were already beating Andorra 1-0. I read that manager Fabio Capello wanted an early goal, but he could have waited until we arrived!

We were more than relived to find our seat, but had to go on the hunt for food. Stupidly, we didn’t wait until half time, and while waiting to be served our £9 box of chicken & chips, Karl and I heard the sickening sound of the home crowd cheering another England goal. If there’s one thing worse than witnessing your team conceding a goal, it’s missing your team scoring one! Luckily England went on to score a further four, so we were not deprived of all the excitement.

All in all, an enjoyable evening. Things could have gone better – we could have got there pre-kick off, enjoyed some good food, a couple of pints and watched the whole match. However, things could have been a lot worse – we could have missed the game! It is a credit to Karl, a nice cab driver offering directions, and pure luck we got there at all.


We finally got there!

I was eventually dropped back home in the early hours of Thursday morning. I was in bed by 1.30am – way past my bedtime and extremely late, especially for a school night (it could have been worse, I heard the Bath-Wembley coach didn’t get in until nearly 3am). Needless to say, I was late into work this morning. God knows what time Karl and Adam got home, or how they both managed to be in the office at 8am. Copious amounts of Red Bull, me thinks.

Posted by sean on June 9, 2009 at 8:54 am in Football, TBA with No Comments


After lengthy discussions with work colleagues, we have upped our original offer for the purchase of Newcastle United.
We now believe we can scrape together a massive £10.00 GBP, some old dusty CRT monitors and a Tesco Clubcard.
The Clubcard has 38 points on it, which is more points than Newcastle won in the whole of last season.
The old, worthless monitors appear to be a like-for-like exchange for some of the useless, slow players currently on the wage bill.

Posted by sean on June 8, 2009 at 11:26 am in Football with No Comments


I’m interested by the line
“Interested parties should contact Newcastle United at admin@nufc.co.uk (or Keith Harris at Seymour Pierce) for further details.”
How much should I offer? The contents of my wallet is 51p plus a Tesco Clubcard. Do you think that is good value for Newcastle United Football Club? Personally I think owner, Mike Ashley, will be getting a fabulous deal if I offered that.

Posted by sean on June 7, 2009 at 10:01 pm in Geek Stuff with No Comments


My laptop has gradually been getting slower and slower – all those visits to the Bath City Forum and the BBC football website had clearly taken their toll on the systems registry. Therefore, I decided do what any young, out-going person should do on a Friday night – reinstall my operating system.

It is now running a lot quicker, although I was annoyed about the excessively long time it took to re-install all my old programs, update Windows and copy across all my documents and files. There is still a lot more to do, but I think I can live without Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom for the time being.

Posted by sean on June 7, 2009 at 9:56 pm in England with No Comments


Am I the only one who is pleased with England’s 4-0 win over Kazakhstan in the World Cup Qualifiers? We won, but the way the media and pundits carried on post-match, you would have thought England had just lost 4-0!

I am not sure what the pundits actually expected from the match. Do they regard Kazakhstan as a third-world country, full of one-legged players with webbed feet; therefore demanding England destroy their inferiors 32-0? Kazakhstan were a tough opposition that had to be beaten. Maybe they wanted champagne football. The state of the pitch meant that even Barcelona would struggle to play exciting football.

England play Andorra on Wednesday at Wembley – a match I will be going to. On paper, Andorra are inferior to Kazakhstan. This makes me wonder what England can possibly do to please the blood-thirsty, knife branding journalists. Personally, I would expect nothing short of a 117-0 win for England. I want Emile Heskey to score a hat trick and then fly out the stadium, land on the moon and bring us all down a piece of cheese to eat with out £25 box of chicken and chips.

I guess it could be worse. I remember not too long ago, England beat Macedonia 1-0, leading to fans believing the World Cup was theirs. Let everyone think we’ll fail – the same attitude the Spanish media took pre-tournament in 2008 – we all know what happened then!

In other sport news, I am delighted that Jenson Button has won another race, moving even closer to the Drivers’ Championship. Even this didn’t stop the media from moaning though, who accused Button’s ongoing success as ‘boring’ *bangs head against wall*

I also enjoyed the Twenty20 game this evening, where England did well beating Pakistan. Let’s wait and see what the media make of that… Man of the Match, Luke Wright, obviously cheated and is a disgrace to his country and his equally useless team mates.

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