mancunian Simon is on a summer tour, guesting on some of his favouritest sites. and of course, one of them is this lurverly blog.
you's can direct yer comments and praises to Simon over here - but no sarcasm, please. and i strongly recommend a daily visit to the bluetealeaf. so there.
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Bluetealeaf on tour #3.
It’s very nice of Breanagh to let me use her place, it’s very nice. You can tell it’s been recently decorated.
Euro 2004 has kicked off and the first day was fantastic. Portugal lost, Spain could have bottled it like usual but didn't, and the referees have started in their usual strict hard line manner. Today it gets underway properly for us here in England; our players take on the might of the French and it promises to be a great match.
One of the things about this years championships that has really annoyed me is the proliferation of the Saint George cross, sticking out of cars windows on little poles. It has replaced the Union Jack as the motif of the football hooligan, or the Brit abroad.
You don’t normally see foreign visitors to these shores adorned with a pair of shorts in the style of their national flag. It typifies all that’s wrong with our culture, and I’m sure it goes a long way to making people think of all Brits as football hooligans. The facts are different. The Dutch, the Turks and the South Americans are all worse than England fans when following their country’s team.
I used to feel proud when I saw the George cross; now it makes me shudder.
Anyway, I love tournament football, and luckily this one coincides with me having some time off work. Bring it on !
as enscribed by Simon @ 07:04 AM
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and i've had always wondered how it got about being called the union jack. interesting tidbit that, and ta for sharing.
as blahed by the letter b @ June 14, 2004 03:41 PMAhem, it's only actually called a Union Jack when it's flying from the jack staff of a war ship, until then it's the Union Flag. Not that anyone else knows or cares about that...
as blahed by Miles @ June 14, 2004 03:37 PM