ITS BACK

For the past month or so i have been walking around unfulfilled. For some unknown reason while i was seeing everything that the large fruit (big apple) has to offer there was a void in me - possibly in the sub cockle region, maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys, maybe even in the colon but i dont know. It was not until the past week that that void was filled and that filler was football.

After such a great world cup - by far the best one i have watched, thanks socceroos - i think i actually was suffering from withdrawal symptoms. In hindsight it is no surprise, given that i had a month solid of watching very good football to be left with out any replacement. Perhaps those clever people at nicerbate can develop some patches that slowly release highlights into your blood stream so that you can get on with life. They could actually market an entire range of post world cup patches depending on how well your team did. They would invariably then need to release a patch to the poor unfortunates who live on the other side of the world of any world cup host nation, to slowly release caffeine and other stimulants to keep you awake during those boring daylight hours between the next lot of games.

The first step to my fulfilment was on Wednesday night when i went and saw the newest Socceroos take to the field against the football giants Kuwait. While many people said the game was boring, and they were right, to see my national team perform and come away with a win they did not deserve was excellent. To add the ground swell of support (read: bandwagon) that turned the previously blue aussie stadiums to the "sea of gold" put the icing on the cake.

Then over the weekend the mighty lions 1XI roared and had a win and a draw in the final 2 games of the season. While we did not play so well in patches this season the 1XI showed what we were capable of and all are keen for next season and championship glory. Hopefully the referees will be just as keen for next season and decide to do their job as opposed to watching the hacking fest that most our games turn into.

Today with Liverpool getting through to the next stage of the champions league i am happy as the proverbial swine in feces. No longer am i unfulfilled and i owe that to football (and a very big sandwich) being back.

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