Sunday, November 26, 2006

You beauties

A client kindly invoted me along to Twickenham to watch the England vs SA game on Saturday... what a pleasure!

Crammed onto a train at Waterloo at 11h30 and headed out to the wilds of south west London.. the doors got jammed by the usual undead at Clapham Junction, milling around trying to force their way on to an already overcrowded train so that the doors couldn't close. Eejits.

Anyhoo, by the time I got to the pub where I was meeting them, the streets were packed with both England & SA fans. Unsuprisingly, the pub was jampacked, even the beer garden, despite the dire looking weather. I met up with my host, and was handed the first of many, many pints before I'd even had a chance to unzip my jacket. After 3 pints and a burger we headed off to the stadium, stopping en route to pick up some droewors and a ref-mike -an ingenious little device that lets you hear everything the ref's saying on the field! very 007.

Oh, and another pint. Walking half a mile is thirsty work. We eventually find the correct gate and ambled in. Since we were early, we stopped at one of the in-house bar areas and had a couple of pints and a fiery curried pancake thing, which was actually quite good.

I have to say, I had some serious doubts about what the feck the Bokke thought they were doing for the first 20 minutes of the first half... they were handing over penalties like it was going out of fashion, but then they seemed to stabilise and things got interesting.

Half time came around too quickly, and we squeezed our way back to the bar for some refills.. we were even quick enough to be seated before the players came out for the second half.

I'm quite chuffed to have been there to see SA break their dry spell at Twickers.

Afterwards, of course, we made our way back down to the bar to dissect England's abysmal performance, giving me a chance to be annoyingly smug. After a few pints we decided that it was getting a bit chilly in the open air bar and migrated back to the pub to have a couple for the road/ train.. stopped off at Waterloo to grab some spicy noodles & a pick me up Asahi from Ned's before I thanked them for a cracking day out and stumbled up the escalators to Waterloo East and my train home.
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