Posts Tagged ‘football’
Ben Cousins fans are in fever mode as they await the challenge of a lifetime.
The Inaugural Ben Cousins Biathlon is scheduled for Saturday the 12 of February 2011 and will see competitors retrace the be leagued footballer stars movement following his abandonment of girlfriend Samantha Druce and his car on the Canning Highway and doing the “booze bus bolt”.
Inaugural Ben Cousins Biathlon will feature a run and a swim (no bike leg) and will be a tough event for even the sober compatriots.
A Facebook group inviting people to participate has over 1,900 people pledging their allegiance to attending, with numbers increasing daily.
On 12 February 2006, Cousins fled a booze bus by abandoning his Mercedes-Benz and girlfriend Samantha Druce in the middle lane of Perth’s Canning Highway and running from police with a male passenger, The male passenger was later caught and breath-tested, but Cousins eluded the police. His intricate escape route was revealed on his recent documentary, and with careful retracing of his movements, Saturday the 12 of February 2011 will be the inaugural running of the Cousins Biathlon.
Yet again, Cousins is proving an inspiration for all the wrong reasons.
With the so called ‘world’s biggest sporting event’ drawing to a close (Yes – Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) In English!) it’s time for all those people who predicted a Japan v Australia final to finally go away and eat a slice of humble pie.
No more will we see yellow flags strewn across travelling motor vehicles or sub-par news commentary indicating how ‘robbed’ a particular team was (even after conceding 4 goals to an inferior team).
Despite the news stories surrounding an unpredictable Adidas football, refereeing decisions that left players looking as confused as a blind lesbian at a fish market; it’s now come time to predict the winner and with 4 teams remaining it looks to be an each way bet.
Once every 4 years the world turns to some foreign destination to watch a series of patriotic football nutcases let off flares and run around with their T-shirts over their heads. I refer of course to the football World Cup of 2010. While the internet struggles to cope with the inundated interest in this sport and frenzied gamblers wager their life savings through a Money Bookers on an unknown Uruguay striker the rest of us are left to endure endless hours of Soccer sorry Football coverage on free to air SBS or Foxtel sports.
While 98% of the population now owns a television that is big and heavy enough to crush a small infant and after a few hundred dollars spent on HDMI cables that the sales assistant assures you that you need there is a few hundred dollars left over for a surround sound system to complete your home theatre experience (until 3D comes along!).
However a rather big glitch in this plan is that the world cup is hosted in South Africa this year and South Africans are known for not only their colorful past political endeavors (I use that term loosely) nor their ‘evil’ accents but their apparent love of blowing vuvuzela’s (or lepatata) horns for the entire duration of each and every football match.
They say this is a national tradition however I can never remember any vuvuzela’s at the rugby world cup or international cricket encounters when South Africa are playing. Mind you Football is unlike any other sports when it comes to hooliganism. I doubt you’ll ever see a flare at the tennis nor a riot at the indoor swimming championship!
That said, the extensive use of these horns that resembles the sound of a malaria ridden swarm of insects makes home television viewing with surround sound, well pointless really. Five minutes of this incessant sound would be enough to force even man’s best friend to exit the room and ten minutes may leave you with blood in your ears.
Needless to say, if you wish to replicate this exciting experience at home and soak in some of the cultural sounds of the Serengeti then you need to visit http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/
I dare not explain what you will be presented with upon an internet search but can assure you it won’t be recorded and sold at your local relaxation therapist office.
Enjoy!
P.S. For all you Wordpress Blog Geeks – Check out the Plugin Widget for use – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-vuvuzelator/
