my girlfriend (along with all my mates' respective female cohabitants) is (are) away at a bachelorette party at a cottage in the Halliburton Highlands (AF9 has been there, she can vouch that that is a nice part of Ontario - in the rocky Canadian Shield, forests, lakes, my girlfriend and her hot friends in bikinis, yes, very picturesque, WHY am i not there?).
so what do we do? hire a small army of, er, classy ladies to entertain us (the kind who are programmed to remove clothing when music is played)? get a few kegs of "special drink" and render ourselves unconscious until 5 minutes before leaving for work on monday morning?
sadly, no. but the next best thing: we get tickets to the TORONTO FC vs Houston Dynamo match, and make plans to bike down to the field for a good old hops-and-barley-fueled two hours of shouting obscenities at the w@nkers from Texas who aren't wearing red. This video is shot from the supporters' end, which is where my seats are. Bedlam :)
then disaster strikes: the alcohol authority here busted the stadium for selling beer to minors (details, details) last year, and the stadium chose THIS GAME to serve the stadium beer-ban. WHY, cruel gods of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment?! First you ruin my hockey team, and destroy the love of my childhood. Then you secure an NBA franchise and name it something as unbelievably stupid as the RAPTORS just because Jurassic Park was a popular movie at the time.
Now this. Football with no beer. Where are we, the prohibition-era united states? Or even worse - EUROPE?!?! (they had no beer at the game i saw in Lyon a couple years ago - what gives, europe is supposed to be cool).
anyway. see here the contents of my bicycle basket, assembled this morning.
V8 because we're health-conscious metro$exuals who won't be able to get any vitamins inside the stadium (only hotdogs).
cigars for the pub post-game, where we'll be watching Canada gut Honduras at the gold cup this afternoon (COME ON LADS)
shirt & socks, because it's about a 20km bike ride to the stadium and 15km back to the pub, and i don't want to be sweaty all day. what if we come across some of the aforementioned classy ladies along the way, i ask? can't be a complete mess.
sunglasses, because there isn't a cloud in the sky :)
enjoy your weekend, MB.
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You forgot to mention the bottle of water, my friend. What is THAT good for? If you would have been a European Laddie, that would have been beer so you get mildly drunk in the stadium (yet pass security) and shout at them Americans wholeheartedly.
You can drink in European stadiums, most certainly in Belgian ones. I would not want to witness the ban on alcohol in a Belgian football stadium. There are hardly fans now, the stadiums would be completely empty!!!!!
Ah, a new start of the season... a new year to watch my Team (USG, union saint gilloise) to underperform in the lower regions of Belgian football... Yes, that is right: Belgian football is lousy and I cheer for a team that cannot even stay in second division, despite a wealty Italian owner and a line-up of Africans whom you don't want to meet at night... Sigh!
Go USG, go!
Wikipedia on USG....
"The club was founded in 1897 and obtained its first of eleven titles as Champion of Belgium in 1904". 1904...ohhhhhh
"Until World War II it was a major team in Belgian football". Until WW II???? Good heavens, that's a long time ago. It was a time where "adventure" was a trip to the next village, a time where lamps needed petroleum to function...
No wonder they can't win anything no more if they have still the same players as then!
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