a weblog by matt place
Just been playing around and spicing up this theme for my weblog. Still got a few bugs to squash and creases to flatten out. Maybe if I had more than 3 photos in my flickr account the sidebar would at least look nicer.
I’m just interested in your thoughts…
(As Tim is abroad I won’t be surprised to receive few to no comments).
The low down on the Reading Boiler Room’s decision to close has been published online.
So I go to bed with fond memories of the great times that I had there, the rufuge that it became during my stint working with the Manchester Boiler (Spring ‘02 - Autumn’03). And then I’ll dwell on the inspiration that all these expressions/reinventions of things monastic have had on my dreams.
But to be completely honest I dream that I am a Brazilian scoring a volley from 30 yards, of laying out on D and throwing a great huck for GB Ultimate, of sitting in the sun on the shores of some volcanic island, and probably all in the same day.
So last Trinidad and Tobago left themselves a difficult opportunity to qualify through the group stage after paying the price of trying to defend a 0-0 draw for 90 long minutes. As soon as Peter ‘you-can’t-teach-tall’ Crouch bagged his first of the finals TnT had to step up and the inevitable second goal came from a wonderful Gerrard strike.
Elsewhere, I’m disappointed to see the end of Ivory Coast’s competitive campaign. They deserved at least a draw against a Robin van Persie led Holland side. CIV have looked the most dangerous and competent of the African nations in Germany this year but found themselves in the group of death, which disappointingly won’t bring any upsets now.
Argentina made their statement of intent today with an amazing display providing a 6-0 thrashing of Serbia and Montenegro. If Sven doesn’t serve up a positive formation against Sweden on Tuesday we could find ourselves falling short of winning the group and leave ourselves more likely to meet Germany after and then a dreaded quarter final with Argentina.