Thursday May 26, 2005
AC Milan 3 - Liverpool FC 3
Sports
- Posted by Rob (#1) on May 26, 2005 08:53 CEST
At the end of a storm is a golden sky. The 2005 Champions League final was such a good game that I don't even mind anymore that PSV Eindhoven lost in the semi-finals.
Within 53 seconds AC Milan took the lead and things looked grim for the mighty red. By half-time Liverpool FC were down three-nil after a trashing so bad that I had to switch to vodka Red Bull after three pints, just to keep the spirit up.
But something spectacular happened in the second half. In a span of six minutes, Liverpool scored one, two, three wonderful goals (two and a conversion from a missed penalty kick) to get back in the game. The pub (where else would I be?!) was full of singing, dancing and cheering again.
No more goals ensued, so after a hundred-and-twenty minutes of football the dreaded penalty shootout began. Liverpool goalie Dudek acted like a professional clown on the line, but fortunately with an emphasis on professional: he stopped the first two efforts of Milan, who never got quite back in the series. Liverpool FC take the cup back to Anfield Road!
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Teenagers: people or cattle?
- Posted by Rob (#1) on May 26, 2005 09:19 CEST
I'm very proud of "W", a 15-year-old London boy challenging Labour's 2003 Anti-Social Behaviour Act which the Beeb summarises as:
Under-16s can be forcibly returned to their homes by police if they are on the streets unaccompanied by an adult between nine at night and six in the morning.
What an appalling act. Even when playing Sim City I refuse to enact youth curfews because I simply can never reach the moral low where I treat my Sims as cattle. Let alone letting the good suffer from the bad when it comes to real human beings, undoubtly more distinct and unique than their virtual counterparts.
They shouldn't be allowed to treat me like a criminal just because I'm under 16.
Right on, lad, that's inexcusable. If such profiling would be based on gender, race/nationality, religion or orientation, there would be public outcry and it baffles me that somehow age discrimination is completely accepted this day and age.
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