Illusions of Grandeur

Belgium is fellow-candidate to host the next World cup Soccer in 2018.  (The Holland/Belgium bid.  There’s a site, but it doesn’t seem to work properly.  Could be my Dell disaster PC.  But it seems that when the ‘select language’ option is used, the site collapses like a house of cards on a Vibration Fitness Machine.  Yes it is an omen for the way the event itself would be organized.)  

Apart from the fact that I don’t particularly applaud hordes of hooligans beating on everything that moves and urinating on every thing else….   isn’t this similar to the latest hosting of the Olympics, adding to the Greece bankruptcy ?    I haven’t been able to verify this, but it’s rumoured that FIFA in all it’s corruptness is already making grotesquely outrageous demands, … like highwaylanes reserved (!?!!) for the organizers and VIP’s.   What ever, I’m sure non of us would mind standing in daily traffic jams for a few more hours.  No wait, make that ‘I’m sure some of us would go berzerk and lynch as many Soccer VIP’s as possible’

Here, something else that is silly enough to be funny.

Easy and Transparent lessons about cricket rules

Episode CCXIV – the wicketkeeper

When an even number of innings has been scored, and the pitch has reached three quarters of a waning crescent of the wicket (and obviously, there’s no chance of a dismissal or ‘out’), instead of the home team going for the extra runs, the sideline umpire can shoot the visiting team’s bowler.