Posts Tagged 'Spain'

Wimbledon

Strawberries and Cream, Anyone?

Watched my first match of Wimbledon this year in glorious BBC HD earlier this evening. Cracking game too. Andy Murray, tipped by many to be the new Tim Henman, i.e. cruelly underachieving Brit who is talked up the press, has lived up to his billing by coming from two sets down in a thriller to beat France’s Richard Gasquet. Unlike recent years when everyone finally began to accept that Tim’s fortunes would never result in him

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Euro 2008 a

Gary and Alan Preside.

The early evening TV schedules are packed to bursting with football at the moment.  Not surprising given that the biennial soccer festival that is either the World Cup or, in this case, the Euro Championships are here.  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that none of the home nations have qualified and, unlike the last time such a thing occurred, we can’t even pretend to Irish to give us a team to follow.  So, we

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