Look, in the UK many are crazy about Christmas football where all the First Division teams travel and play and travel and play. Television broadcasts all those games to British salons where fans dressed in club uniforms, with beer and good humor, watch their favorite team perform. You can really get square-eyed in the last week of the year if you’re a bit of a soccer fan.
The danger of big and important teams having too many ‘positive’ players on board threatened earlier this week, but now it’s quiet from Albion. No additional infected players? It could be, but it could also be the other way around: more infected players and then what? The silence so far is crackling.
In fact, the show must go on. The viewer must be full, the commercial breaks have been sold, the television staff, like the players, are under tremendous pressure, because they too have to work day after day to properly portray this long Christmas session.
Incredible number of matches
The British have known this for a long time; the last week of the year is “soccer everywhere” and no other sport can compete with that except for the rather flat drunken noise around the also very popular darts competitions.
Yes, it can be said that the people of Heffe des in Great Britain are preparing for an almost incredible number of football days. Whether omikron will continue to bother next week is highly questionable and which virologists will yell on television that football cannot continue.
I watched the soccer show for fun. Tomorrow, San Esteban, will open: the soccer tube, with 5 games. Monday there are three. Tuesday six games. Wednesday five more games. On Thursday six English matches and one (for dessert) from Portugal. On Friday the 31st, all the players from the British clubs can be home and have fun, although it is also known that those players have to go out on Sunday the 1st of January, they have been asked to come to the players’ hotel on New Years Eve and sleep good there.
To give the most addicted a soccer opportunity, the Valencia-Spanish match is broadcast in England from three fifteen in the afternoon. I hope I’m not stepping on the toes of soccer fans when I say: who the hell wants to see that, that day, at that time? How addicted must you be?
That January 1 only two games remain (yawn): Arsenal against Manchester City and Chrystal Palace against West Ham United. Matches that will look like a hangover. On Sunday, January 2, the British dance will open on a whim. In Scotland, the men of Celtic and Rangers are kicking each other underground and that game really starts at 12.00; on the edge of the morning and afternoon, but if you’ve been bankrupt for a few days anyway, it doesn’t matter anymore. You can, in your pajamas if you want, watch football until eleven at night; the different broadcasting clubs (Sky Sport football, La Liga TV, BT Tv, Amazon Prime Video, BT Sport 3, Celtic TV) do not interfere with each other and in this way the soccer addict gets exactly what he wants, the television channels a lot of money and it can shoot many, many minutes of advertising across screens, which is an annoying side effect.
Ah yes, on Monday January 3, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, a Scotsman, a British and three Spanish games are scheduled on the British channels. Yes, Monday …
That means 42 (yes, it says: forty-two) matches in 9 days. And there are people who want to see them all. No major home disputes, divorces, or out-of-home placements.
And yes, the pets are a bit neglected and ‘the lady’ should do something else these days, right? And it is not about a beautiful love life for a week … it will be surpassed again sometime in the summer when they are on vacation in Torremolinos …
Oh wait a minute, all of a sudden there’s a typo from England. Two games were canceled due to too many players from the four teams reacting positively to the tests. These are Liverpool-Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers-Watford. In the hope that the British public can overcome this hard blow.
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