My chocolate advent calendar doesn't tell the date as well as this sporting advent calendar...

Euro 2004 draw

The draw for Euro 2004 has been decided and we're playing France in the first game! To see who else we might meet, have a look at this tournament scenario applet.

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Are you a Kicking King?

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Suck on that Campo!

Australian The Webb Ellis Cup comes home tomorrow and to be honest, nothing less could have compensated the seven weeks we've spent enduring the utter rubbish that comes out of Mr Campese's mouth. He's become awfully quiet now... What a win!

"Championes Championes Ole Ole Ole!"

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There's still a ringing in my ear

Went to a railway station just outside London today as part of the commissioning process for a simulator we're putting in there. No one told us about the 10 million decibel alarm they had installed over the weekend though. This really annoyed us, though interestingly not as much as it annoyed the nearby catering department's manager. You'd think that someone in charge of so many chocolate bars would be fairly agreeable. Not him. He threw a real whobbly, shaking like a suited up Energiser bunny with a finger pointed out in front. He and I had words. Well, actually he had all the words, and I can tell you they wouldn't have scored much as scrabble words. Mainly because they were mostly 4 letters and probably not even allowed. At least I think he did... I'm not all that great at lip reading. Perhaps having my hands over my ears while he was in full swing didn't help him chill. He was all blue in the face. I couldn't help but smile back at him. It wasn't my fault that no one had told us the code to stop the alarm... and had to leave it going for half an hour... next to his office...

Apparently some sad individual has entered "stag night na*ed photos" into Google and arrived at my site! Sorry to disappoint you. Well, you'd be equally disappointed if you'd googled "na*ed calendar downing students" and been directed here but it'd be hard not to be shocked... Students these days... In my day...

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David Blaine

It took us 3 hrs to drive back to Surbiton from central London on Sun night and I blame it all on magic man. Why starve yourself for 44 days? And why do it in London? And why why WHY do it beside a bottle-neck like Tower Bridge? On a day when they were going to have a mock chemical attack and there was cricket at the Oval. Anyway, I reckon he's eating insects... or maybe his cage is edible, like a see-through gingerbread house. What an idiot - although I'd have to admit if I was going to be paid £5m for sitting and doing nothing for 6 weeks I might consider it...

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South Africa

Question: Where in the world can you see 100 football matches being played in one place on one day?

Answer: Hackney Marshes, NE London. There you'll find no fewer than 87 full-size football pitches. Tomorrow I'm going to be playing there so before I head off for an early night let's get something down for Sept... My slackness is probably due to this festival of sport we've had recently and I've been caught right up in it. We've done pretty brilliantly. Two wins in the football, a massacre in the rugby and a drawn test series in the cricket. Not a bad effort. Must say though that in the cricket had we been playing away in South Africa it might've been a different story. I still remember going on tour there and us not winning a single game... <reminiscing> It was still a great tour though. If you've never been to SA it's well worth going. I remember seeing some of the guys in the national teams of SA (including Mr Cronje) and Oz (including Mr Warne) by chance in our hotel at Port Elizabeth. Durban's very cool, so was the Waterfront at Cape Town and so was Stellenbosch... actually all of the Garden Route was great - apart from a dodgy braai here and there... But now I'm rambling! Clearly I need a holiday. Must go back one day, Ja!</reminiscing>

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