Watching soaring Eagles

What a couple of days for sport. The main climax being CRYSTAL PALACE beating Cardiff in the first leg of the Carling Cup semi final. For those overseas, the Carling Cup is THE soccer cup competition on the world for club teams. It takes the best of the league teams in a knockout competition, and just by being in the semi finals, the Palace (known as the Eagles) have proved themselves to be in the top 4 teams in the world, as I have always known. They have a 1-0 lead going into the second leg in Cardiff, which means it will be a tight game. Look out Wembley, we are coming back. The other semi final is between two village teams, one from Manchester who play in powder blue, and one from Liverpool, who play in red. Either way I think Palace will do the job and win.

I have also had the chance to watch the BDO darts world championships coverage on TV. Now I am not sure how this counts as sport. Darts is traditionally a game played in the pub accompanied by lots of beer. Looking at the top players, they make me look slim, and untill recently mid match refeshments were, guess what, beer. This has been reviewed in recent years and now they have water to make the sport appear more healthy. Garish shirts are the preferred kit worn by the players, often with thier nicknames on the back. Looking at the crowds present, its a almost a mirror image of the players. Lots of groups drinking beer, eating un-healthy food, cheering, chanting and laughing, plenty of fancy dress - sounds great, anyone want to join me next year?

As for me, its a slow process, each day feeling better in the morning but still need to retreat to bed after lunch, but later each day.

Bye for now