I may have made a mistake.
The other day I scrutinised the games still to be played and splashed out £30 on a 'Now TV' 'Sky Sports Pass.' This enables me to see Sky Football coverage on the laptop. Now as I also have BTS for Scottish football this enabled me to view more than the occasional match.
Since then I have viewed quite a few.
Yesterday I watched three games and did almost nothing else.
Today I escaped from church a wee bit earlier than I wished, cadged a lift from a young woman and arrived home in time for the Edinburgh derby at 12:15. This was better than last weeks wimpish offering and questions must be asked why Hibs players are so well liked by referees. But I'm not one to complain...
After this, while preparing a burnt offering which may be with me for ever, I watched a bit of Burnley v Manchester City, this was disappointing after the proper football from Easter Road and soon I turned on to the Rangers v Aberdeen game where another showing of Glasgow Rangers bias enabled the blue bigots to win by two penalties to none. Mr Defoe must wonder what he has to do to be sent off! He not only handled the ball twice he also clouted the goalie and then feigned injury. The ref did not see a blatant assault ten yards ahead of him!
What is more is for the first time I realised that the referee, Don Robertson, is in fact now a FIFA registered ref. Apart from a friendship with Jim Fleming who heads up Scots refs how on earth did this man get to that level?
I then caught the second half of the rather poor English offering, Manchester United v Chelsea, a somewhat meaningless game after the first one I had watched. This contained little emotion and less football but a lot more money.
I considered watching the MLS game from the US after this but wondered if maybe I was becoming hooked on this SKY lark? As I look around I note lots of empty and half empty cough bottles, rubbish lying around, papers unread, mail unopened, dishes unwashed. Could it be I need to switch off for a while?
Surely not...
2 comments:
I'd thought about listening to Kent CCC v Pakistan, but instead did the pickled onions, bottled mangos, made a cake, the usual meals, dog, sheep and poultry care, though the notion of tidying the kitchen was too much to bear and was abandoned.
I feel I made the wrong choice...
Fly, After my dinner I think you made the right choice....
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