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Super you never put a photo of yourself on your avatar on EFC

Mr_Ben wrote:Super you never put a photo of yourself on your avatar on EFC

Set the account up at work, and not got a picture of myself here. Never got round to changing it when I got home.

Notepad, a nice English question for you, what was the weather like? was it cold?

Mr_Ben wrote:Notepad, a nice English question for you, what was the weather like? was it cold?

About 20-22 during the day but it went down to about 3-4 from 4.30 in the afternoon?

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notepad wrote:

Mr_Ben wrote:Notepad, a nice English question for you, what was the weather like? was it cold?

About 20-22 during the day but it went down to about 3-4 from 4.30 in the afternoon?

Was the Bud sold in the staduim 5.0% or was it like Bud Light-esk (3.1%)

Mr_Ben wrote:

notepad wrote:

Mr_Ben wrote:Notepad, a nice English question for you, what was the weather like? was it cold?

About 20-22 during the day but it went down to about 3-4 from 4.30 in the afternoon?

Was the Bud sold in the staduim 5.0% or was it like Bud Light-esk (3.1%)

Normal 5% I think??
TBH I tried to drink as little of that rubbish as possible! 30R for 284mls of Bud in the stadium or 8R for 750mls of Hansa in the nearest pub!!

mindyerho? wrote:

notepad wrote:http://www.evertonfc.com/everton-blog/?auth=38

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good read, again. Whatever Cashley's credentials I think he should get a rest (or arrested) too for a while.

Cheers, was weighing it up about leaving Cashley out but I just think he's too good regardless of his off the field antics?

notepad wrote:

Mr_Ben wrote:

notepad wrote:

Mr_Ben wrote:Notepad, a nice English question for you, what was the weather like? was it cold?

About 20-22 during the day but it went down to about 3-4 from 4.30 in the afternoon?

Was the Bud sold in the staduim 5.0% or was it like Bud Light-esk (3.1%)

Normal 5% I think??
TBH I tried to drink as little of that rubbish as possible! 30R for 284mls of Bud in the stadium or 8R for 750mls of Hansa in the nearest pub!!

70p a bottle of beer

Really enjoyed your blogs Notepad, best read of the World Cup. Good work mate.

just back from joburg and straight into work, had about three hours sleep since Friday and I can hardly talk from singing. Great world cup, great place, lovely people, same old england.

Quick update for the saturday - I arrived at joburg airport at about 7am, went round to me mate's gaff for a shit shower & shave, then we hit the road towards rustenburg stopping off along the way for a few beers at the 'Dam (some kind of dam and not as I thought short for Little Asmterdam, a place for drugs and women), actually a load of beers, then something to eat at Stef's table at about 1pm (it was supposed to be noon but we decided to walk and it was further from the pub than we thought!), who was a bloke... and so was his partner - bit wierd, his partner looked like Lurch and we basically ate in his front room, but the food was ace as was the wine.

Had a few more beers, then drove to sun city (we had a driver, Tex, who was not from texas but from Soweto - name comes from South West Township - there you go, something new for you) and he had a gun, but that's still not why we called him Tex, that was too long and I'm fucked so I'll tell you later.

Anyway, gets to sun city and its amazing, but in the middle of nowhere - very strange but beautiful views. Watched the afternoon game there then, after watching the players leave towards their coaches we hit the road to the stadium to watch USA v Ghana. We were a bit worried as a few miles from the stadium the road was gridlocked heading into Rustenburg - absolutely jammed solid.

We weren't too worried as we'd left before the players coaches which were a couple of minutes behind us... that was until we saw the Ghana coach speed up the other side of the motorway, heading in the wrong direction along the empty road OUT of rustenburg.

There then followed an absolutely hilarious whacky races type scne where every car and van and coach that was sat in the jam, suddenly realised this was a great idea and we all drove across a 40 foot wide and bumpy central reservation to tailgate the ghana coach and beat the jam and get to the stadium - it was amazing there was no accidents, but there were a few near misses, especially with the one or two cars coming the right way out of rustenburg.

Finally made it to the car park, then head over to the hospitality tent, but only three (out of the five) of us had the wrist passes, so we blagged it past the first three rows of security then went in and passed the wrist passes out to the other two who joined us for some scran and more ale.

Anyway, we finally got in, loads of yanks about saying "awesome" and "wow", and I swear it was more annoying than the vuvuzelas (which weren't that bad in the stadium). Anyway, I'll hand the match report over to Billy Rae Clunt, who was there with his twin brother, Bobby Rae Clunt.... Billy was the one on the right, at least I'm sure he was a right Clunt.

"Awesome man, what a game a soccer that was! First like, U.S.A. playing in red, scored a foot goal in like the first five minutes dude, it was awesome man, and that score was worth three points right there! It went straight in from outside the three point arc.

Then in the second quarter Gee-Hannah playing in all white got a free shot for a dubious foul and they got a penalty score.

Then I lost interest for a bit and we had some hamburgers and hotdogs and sang songs, mainly "U. S. A." which was really popular with the guys, although we also sang, "we. can. do. it.", which is kinda similar to the "U. S. A." song only a bit longer.

Oh, U.S.A scored in the third quarter, again another foot goal from open play, but then the defence from each team came into play and the game finished something like 2 - 1 to the U.S.A., yeah man, we're going with the soccer world series man!"

"Billy Rae, the USA played in white - you got beat"

"What! You mean Gee-Hannah were playing in red! Bummer Dude, but they looked good man, and I didn't even know the South Americans played soccer before this tournie!"

Anyway, loads of yanks who said awesome a lot and had people leading them around the place with large umbrellas were jamming up the roads so we'd agreed with our driver that we'd meet him on the main road to avoid the carpark jam - so then we spent the next half hour wondering through the local area in almost pitch black completely lost singing and dancing with the locals who were made up with the African win before our driver finally managed to track us down.

Got home about 2am absolutely knackered but dead excited, so had a few more beers before going up bed.

I'll try to put a few pictures up before I head of to Sweden on Friday and I'll try to give you the remaining two games.