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...
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...
My parents have retired to the house in Italy that they bought when I was a child. A car rally — the “Rally del Casentino” — takes place every year and the cars drive through the village where they live.
I’ve never happened to be there at the time when the rally takes place, but this year we were lucky enough to be there.
The cars drove through the village twice, once during the day and once at night. We watched the day-time race from the play-park which provided a good view, and the circolo gave the kids an ice-cream each.
For the night-time race, we decided to go down to Talla, although it meant not getting home till after midnight when the roads were reopened.
We found a rather good place to watch it on the pavement near the bridge, where the cars had to take a hard turn. Most of them managed, but one of them turned to the wrong side and nearly crashed into us — it was less than a metre from Charlotte when it stopped. Some other spectator recorded it for posterity:
On our way back up the mountain, we passed three rally cars that had crashed — rather interesting that professional drivers have so much trouble with a road that I’ve driven up and down so many times!
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 a feasible host.)Qatar, on the other hand, is a ludicrous choice. The country is tiny, it needs to build 75%...
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....
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...
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...
My parents have retired to the house in Italy that they bought when I was a child. A car rally — the “Rally del Casentino” — takes place every year and the cars drive through the village where they live.
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