World Cup Fever

For those of you who are not interested in football you might not be interested in reading this post.

I don't support any particular football team but if I had to choose one in the Premiership it would be Liverpool. I guess it is due to my bro's influence..he is a Liverpool fan and ever since I grew up :Liverpool has been the team our family would support. There have been many players in the past (well.. as far back as I can remember) and the present whom I enjoy watching i.e. McManaman, Owen to the present players like Gerrard, Carragher , Kewell. The best exciting and thrilling football game I have ever seen was the Champions League when Liverpool won!! :)

I enjoy watching the international football games especially during the World Cup but I haven't been able to watch all the games this year cuz most of the weekday games are during working hours.

There have been some exciting games i.e. Argentina games with Ivory Coast & Mexico and some very boring ones...the worst one has got to be the Switzerland vs. Ukraine game...it was like watching paint dry even when they had the penalties!!!

Another incentive for watching the World Cup this year is I've entered a fantasy football league with some friends organised by the Metro newspaper..so far I'm doing alright ..(atleast I'm not bottom of the league!) Ronaldo is my "captain" in my fantasy team so he better score some goals tomorrow against France!)

Living in London, the English folk have been caught up with the World Cup fever as England are still in it (well until tomorrow at least!)..with the quarter finals with Portugal tomorrow.It's been my first time where I've seen soo many St George's flag flying on cars, outside flats and houses all over London.

You have to respect the English folk as they hope so much from the English team just like how they had hopes for Henman in Wimbledon. Fans have even named the hill on Wimbledon "Henman Hill" although that might now change to "Murray Hill" or even "Murrayfield" . You've got to give them full credit for supporting their key players all the way!

It was a year ago when England won the thrilling Ashes series...since then the English cricket team have been faced with injuries from many of their major players but I think they'll come back in time for the Ashes series.

Let's hope their football team can prove their critics wrong and go all the way too this year...!

Cricket-A Boring Game?

I will be the first one to admit..
I have never understood why people watch cricket.. until today.

Before this, I've never actually given the game a chance.

I would often quickly switch to another tv channel whenever the cricket was on.

So why should it be any different now?
If I was to be really honest, there was nothing else on tv and I needed a tv-break from studying.

The English players are currently doing well in the Ashes series ( England vs Australia ) and some of them aren't actually that bad looking. :)

Today was the 3rd day of the 4th series test and it was (surprisingly!) an exciting game.
I have a lot of respect for the bowlers especially Flintoff and S Jones. I didn't realise bowling could be fun to watch especially when they try to get the "wickets" ( when they get the batsman out i.e a strike out in baseball's terms)

For those of you who were sceptical like I was before..have a go at watching the Ashes. It's more than about two people running up and down and more than a game of rounders.

For the girls...even if you don't quite get the game some of the guys are quite cute too.. :)