Watching two
AFL games live at the same time. Woof.
I’ve decided
to spend the night at the Dili Beach Hotel. Bear with me. The first semi-final
of the FA Cup is on tonight, Liverpool vs. Everton, and I really want to watch
it. I haven’t watched much football and this could be a ripper. Probably will
be a scrappy derby match, with the added spice of a place in the final up for
grabs. Everton are the form team, can’t stop scoring goals. Liverpool, really
struggling and have to start with their third choice goalkeeper. What a
calamity; their first two choices out through red cards. I’m not feeling that
confident based on current form but anything can happen in a cup game. Come on
you Reds. It’s also fitting that it’s the day before the anniversary of the
Hillsborough tragedy. YNWA; justice for the 96.
Anyway, the
point being… ummm, oh yeah, the game won’t start till 9.30pm and things are
getting kinda tense around the place with the elections on Monday. To follow up
on my last post, I’ve heard that the TMR campaign HQ was attacked by some 100
FRETILIN supporters. This news came to me this morning from a journalist
friend. The PNTL are investigating the situation as I write this. There have
also been a series of incidents that have seemingly targeted foreigners. People
have been stopped, asked for money or other documents. Vehicles have been
stoned. Roadblocks setup by goodness knows who have been erected. I honestly
don’t feel that confident about traveling when it starts to get dark. And this
is the lead up to the polls. I expect things to possibly get tenser and more
challenging after the results are announced.
It is in
this context that I decided that the most sensible choice was to watch the
match at the DBH, would probably finish just before midnight – assuming it
doesn’t go to extra time or penalties - and just crash there at the hotel.
Expensive for a football game but these kind of games don’t happen on a regular
basis.
Oh yeah, I’m
watching two live games of AFL concurrently as I write this. Brilliant. I find
I write very productively with the AFL in the background. What a game last
night, blues over the pies, and of course my cats got over the hawks by a
whisker on Monday. Go Cats.
Lunch time.
Catch you later.
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