Thursday, 16 September 2010

Clint McKay, beige tights and other tedious CLT20 stuff

Yes, yes - there's so little happening that I am forced to write something about the bloody Champions' League. I warn you, I know very little about it, but if you know even less than me, here's some stuff that has happened:

  • I got the day wrong and made a fool of myself cheering on Chennai through twitter a day before they actually played.
  • South Australia took off on their campaign like a starving dog chasing Shane Warne with a pie.
  • Victoria didn't. I laughed.
  • I made fun of Clint McKay and his beige tights.
  • He didn't laugh.
  • Mumbai Indians started crap, laughter for everyone who isn't Indian.
  • I got annoyed with everyone complaining that England weren't allowed to submit teams. Keep up or shut up, people and ...
Andrew Flintoff announced that he is retiring from all cricket. It isn't really related, but I thought it was worth mentioning just the same.

That's it. Anything else? Don't know, don't really care. Feel free to fill me in.

9 thoughts on this post:

Stani Army said...

"Tights" in the title? I thought you were gonna watch what you wrote in your headings? It's the good folk like me that end up suffering.

missjane said...

If it's any comfort, Sid, Fox Sports are also struggling. Their big cricket news is that Nathan Hauritz is looking forward to playing in India and has been doing some bowling practice. Although they've embedded footage of North, for some reason.

Apparently it's the biggest test (not sure if that's a typo or not) of his (Hauritz's) career - would you agree?

missjane said...

P.S. I get all excited for a second when I see references to the Warriors winning at the CL, and then I'm like, oh, that's right...

Which reminds me, Mickey says our Warriors are fit as. The ABC has decided to accompany this important 'news' with a picture of Mickey in his Saffer gear. Interesting.

sunny said...

Did Clint McKay wear beige tights?
I didn't know, so that means my
CLT20 knowledge is inferior to that of yours.
I was even surprised when I read a team has made it to the semifinals already. And when the semis are I don't know.

sunny said...

Oh, and Pollard hit a 72 which included 9 sixes. This you forgot to mention.

Purna said...

Paul harris seems to be supporting the redbacks

Sidthegnomenator said...

Sunny, I think I wrote this before the Pollard thing happened. Something like that. And I'm not sure about the beige tights. Someone wore beige tights in the Vic team (during training) and was concerned for the health and safety of onlookers. McKay was not admitting to wearing them if he did.

Purna, the Redbacks are doing so well, suddenly everyone is supporting them. I gave Wes a(highly unofficial) award on twitter last night for being the only one who genuinely believed they would do well from the start.

Sidthegnomenator said...

@Jane why is Mickey wearing his Saffa gear there? How old is that photo? Have we not cameras in Perth these days?

missjane said...

Cameras over here in the Wild West? Phht.

Maybe he was wearing the gear to motivate the boys. Or remember the glory days. Or maybe the ABC didn't care enough to send an actual person to take a photo of him... mind you, you'd think the WACA would have one. A picture, that is.