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Post by Séamus on Mar 22, 2020 8:33:08 GMT
Following GAA,Britain's Premier League etc,Australian football (which had continued it's season until today sans live audiences) has deferred. It's definately not a handsoff sport.(Speaking of which 'touching' to see one of the Dubs trying to keep us well-excersised at home via videolink.) Unfortunate in particular for Liverpool supporters to see that a season like this will likely be remembered for a virus. In tennis, Nadal,Djokovic and Williams are all close to equalling Grand Slam records, but are all at an age where one postponed season could prevent them from achieving it. But the advice of one sport commentator on how to emotionally survive possible lockdowns is worth quoting,at least in part: ⚽ make a crepe paper banner across your front gate (this can be purchased at your local newsagent or craft shop,under no circumstances use toilet paper) 🏐Open bottled liniment and leave in every room 🏈at least once a week serve a lunch of stone cold pies and warm half-strength beer in plastic cups (probably referring specifically to Perth's stadium there) ⚾replace alarm clocks with sirens 🏉replace phone message tones to a whistle 🏀replace ringtones with your team's clubsong 🏆when witnessing two people wrestling over a can of baked beans in aisle five at your local supermarket run past backwards and say 'fair bump,play on'
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Post by Séamus on Mar 28, 2020 12:09:34 GMT
PS. Amazing how this has hit the world's cultural as well as economic nerve-centres...Lunar New Year largely uncelebrated in China,likewise St Patrick's Day,Easter will be largely shut down...a helicopter flew low over our suburb this evening- usually a sign of a police chase,more likely making sure the proverbial Australian weekend social bbq isn't taking place. The main Australian football league has declared that all it's teams will survive this,thereby confessing that perhaps they won't... But if sports leagues do survive (without spectators),maybe a change of some of the anthems,particularly Liverpool's You'll Never Walk Alone, should be suggested?: 🎵"I hear the ticking of a clock,I'm lying here,the room's pitch dark...and the night goes by so very slow"(Heart,Alone) 🎼Fleming's Sand and Water is hard to beat:"All alone,I didn't like the feeling. All alone. I sat and cried. All alone I had to find some meaning" 🎶"The chosen few. The newspaper says,says Say it's true,it's true,we can break through. Though torn in two we can be one" At least u2 gave us that one. 🎙️Some have suggested DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME or CALL ME for the current times,but anyone less scruplous about social distance in the benches might nominate Moya Brennan's number:"Crossing the room,not afraid,not hiding, I understand that it's fate I'm deciding"
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Post by cato on Mar 28, 2020 13:12:01 GMT
🎙️Some have suggested DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME or CALL ME for the current times,but anyone less scruplous about social distance in the benches might nominate Moya Brennan's number:"Crossing the room,not afraid,not hiding, I understand that it's fate I'm deciding" [/quote]
The Police/Sting song you refer to Seamus was about a teacher and a student crush based on an incident in Stings own brief career as a teacher. 30 years on such a situation is even more taboo than it was in the 1980s. I am a Sting fan but we might be safer sticking with Moya Brennan!
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Post by Séamus on May 18, 2020 12:11:38 GMT
It's fairly well known that the boycott was an Irish invention but,artistic licence aside, Rory McIlroy's refusal to play golf again with the American President due to a politicisation of the covid saga seems a contradiction in terms. Perhaps some sympathy for his poorer sport cousins of all sorts in these times would be a more appropriate focus;his fellow Northern Irishman Conor McKenna somehow made it back to Melbourne to rejoin his Australian Rules team,but two weeks or so of self-isolation will be adding to someone's costs. A drop,of course, extracted from a dry ocean of empty stadiums worldwide. Illawarra Hawks (basketball, I believe)have become the first professional team in Australia to face corona-insolvency; Rugby Australia is having similar problems(perhaps the back-turned protest of their PM by Belgian medical workers' was rugby-inspired?)
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