And so another day of workshopping is complete and we've all been out for tapas together this evening. I am back at my hotel watching the second half of the England friendly and perusing the paper.
Re the football, it is entertaining to see that Capello has caused a bit of a stir (again) by suggesting that having a grasp of English which extends to 100 words is sufficient for his needs when it comes to communicating with the team. Obviously, the journalists have pounced on this as a great opportunity, and today's paper has two separate articles which suggest what that vocabulary should be. Both are good, but the first one had me laughing out loud, so I have listed the suggested words here to amuse:
Captain
Telephone
Super-injunction
Adultery
Nil
Congratulations
Germany
Goalkeeper
Butterfingers
Take
The
Positives
No
Easy
International
Games
Even
When
You're
Playing
Part-time
Algerian
Plumbers
With
A
Side
Full
Of
Millionaires
Prostitute
Text
Naively
Assume
Remains
Private
Sick
As
Parrot
Lampard
Or
Gerrard
Air
Pistol
Practice
Penalties
Whoops
I
Slipped
It
Flew
Over
The
Bar
Beck ham
Sideshow
Circus
Russian
Linesman
Long
Time
Ago
45 years
Of
Hurt
Football
Isn't
Coming
Home
Unless
You
Live
In
Qatar
Eliminated
At
Quarter
Final
Stage
By
First
Good
Team
We
Face
WAGs
Wayne
Rooney's
Metatarsal
If
Only
He'd
Been
Fit
FIFA
Envelope
Used
Note
Very funny!
Since starting this blog the football has finished and I've caught up with the news from home. Sounds like Jake had an impressive parents evening.
(As to the football, I thought that Ghana deserved their equalizer - and who can begrudge them given that they were the unluckiest team in the World Cup last year. We were all rotting for them against Uruguay. From an England perspective, a typical waste of time friendly. Most of the first team weren't even there!)