2010/12/02 21:37
I'm not really interested in football, but FIFA's decision to place their World Cup 2022 in Qatar is outrageous. (I'm sure there were good reasons why Russia should not have got the World Cup in 2018 ahead of the competition, but at least the country is big and rich enough – and mad enough about football – to make it...
2008/01/27 23:35
Today Denmark won the European Championship in handball, beating Croatia 24-20 in the final.This is big news in Denmark, not quite as big as when we won the European Championship in football, but almost. It's totally dominating all Danish newspapers on the internet at the moment.Handball is one of the "big four" ballgames that all Danish kids have to learn...
2010/12/31 18:38
Here are my predictions for 2011:
- There will be a general election in Denmark. The Social Democrats and SF will form a minority government, which will quickly get into serious trouble trying to carry out their legislative programme.
- There won’t be a general election in the UK, but the LibDems will get more and more worried about their lack of support in the opinion polls.
- In Scotland, Labour will win the election but will be unable to find a coalition partner, so they’ll form a minority government.
- The outcome of the AV referendum will be Yes (but it’ll be a narrow victory).
- There’ll be snow on the ground in Scotland for most of the time until the end of March. We’ll then have a warm and sunny early summer, but late summer and autumn will be cold and wet, and we’ll have another white Christmas.
- Facebook will get serious competition, but they won’t be overtaken yet as the default social networking site.
- The best-selling tablet computer towards the end of 2011 won’t be the iPad.
- Economically, Germany will start pulling the Eurozone out of the slump, but there’ll be more bad news from the US. There won’t be any sovereign defaults (yet).
- Petrol prices will reach £1.50 per litre.
- Neither Denmark nor Scotland will qualify for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship.
2010/06/24 21:20
Det var ganske fortjent, at Japan lammetævede Danmark.For det første var alle danskere – inkl. landsholdet – iflg. de danske aviser overbeviste om, at Japan var et ubetydeligt hold, som det ville blive let at vinde over.Til VM er der ingen dårlige hold, og alle modstandere skal tages seriøst. Det er trænerens ansvar.For det andet tog Danmark ikke højderne seriøst. At placere sin træningslejr ved kysten, når alle ens indledende kampe er i højlandet, er amatøragtigt. De danskere spillere har...
2009/07/04 22:32
Watching a bit of Wimbledon, with some matches lasting forever and others finishing almost immediately, made me think about the difference between tennis and football.Wouldn't it be interesting to design a variant of tennis that was more like football, and vice versa? To be specific:Football tennis: Basically tennis, but a match lasts 90 minutes. During those 90 minutes, as many...
2007/06/02 22:15
I don't normally blog about football, but the bizarre way the match between Denmark and Sweden ended is intriguing.As far as I understand, Denmark is to be punished because a Danish fan ran onto the pitch and tried to attack...
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