#18: Weekend

I spent most of the Saturday and Sunday of my long weekend drinking, eating, sleeping, watching the football and playing Pro Evo 6 and Monopoly. It’s been great fun.

I’d forgotten how good Monopoly was as a game, probably because I’d not played it in years. There were tense negotiations and the games were all pretty even, until Matt’s girlfriend showed up and managed to beat us all into a pulp in one game, accumulating about £6000 and just about all the property on the board after an absolutely terrible start. It seems that beginner’s luck was definitely in the air!

The football was great. Although it pains me to say it, I’d far rather see United win the league than Chelsea. Combine that with the fact that they’re both out of the Champions League and it’s great news for me (a Liverpool fan). I just hope the Champions League final isn’t a repeat of 2005 - I don’t think I could handle being that nervous again. The Arsenal-Chelsea match was quite good - I wanted to really see Arsene go for it and try and stop Mourinho at any cost, and he did just that by holding them to a draw. It’s going to be fun to watch Chelsea make a guard of honour for the United players on Wednesday night :>

Big Sam Allardyce has apparently been linked with Glenn Roeder’s recently-vacated job as Newcastle manager - I have to say I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he went. He’s not done that bad a job at Bolton, but I think the lure of a slightly larger club is definitely getting to him. I just hope he stops everyone banging on about the spent force that is Michael Owen. He might only be young, but he’s certainly not got the speed or skill he used to have.

That said, I’d almost like him to prove me wrong and bring the England team out of the slump they’re in, as my potential road trip to Euro 2008 isn’t looking like an amazing prospect with their current form. I think that appointing Steve McLaren was a big mistake - he’s basically Sven, but with ginger hair and slightly more ability to show emotion. We could also do with pulling Paul Scholes out of retirement, because he’s clearly one of the players that we can’t do well without.

I’m interested - what do you think?

#6: Sunshine

This weekend has been lovely - the weather in my part of England has been the warmest so far this year, and it was lovely to cruise round in my car with the windows open and the tunes playing. It’s not quite been warm enough for the air conditioning yet, though.

I’ve started watching Heroes and I have to say, I’m a bit addicted. TuB shouted at me for its lack of plot, but I’m really not complaining to be honest. It’s got a decent amount of eye-candy and there is definitely a load of weird stuff going on, enough to make me ask questions but not enough to make it like Lost.

Lost is beginning to annoy me. They never explain anything to you, and then when they do, they’ll tell you something but it’ll make you ask another load of questions about something else. Sometimes I just feel like having something to watch that isn’t such hard work.

The football was quite good yesterday, although Spurs really should have made it 4-1 before half time, and they shouldn’t have gone off the boil and let Chelsea even things up again. All I can say is that I hope they win in the replay (I’m not a Spurs fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I dislike Chelsea a whole lot more)

I also rediscovered World of Warcraft this weekend. I put got three levels onto my warrior (taking him from 56 up to 59) and then decided I couldn’t be arsed again. I’ll probably let the rested XP build up again and log in in about two weeks!