Sunday Soccer Bloggin'

Spent yesterday erecting the fresh-cut spruce and generally decking the halls here at 49PB HQ. This meant I got to actually watch the better part of two entire soccer games. GolTV's web site is non-functional and their on-screen listings completely off, but through persistence I was able to catch the beginning of the top of the table clash between Juventus and AC Milan. One would expect such an important game -- four points separating the two sides -- to be full of emotion, goals (or at least shots on) and for a bonus perhaps a bit of a food fight at the end. Alas, the odds-on candidate for World Footballer of the Year, Andrei Shevchenko was kept in check and a rather dreary scoreless draw was the result.

Next up was what should have been tedious is big-scoring walkover for fourth place(!) Real Madrid away versus a way-down-there Racing Santander. I was going to turn it off but Racing was having none of Los Galacticos. With Becks on the bench, a riveting, end-to-end match ensued in which Real robbed Racing of one (not to say three) points with a Zidane header in the 92nd in a desperately needed but undeserved win.

It really is a funny old game. Oh, and the Bhoys won to stay top of the SPL, but I'll never see any of it. I need to get a new favorite (European) club...