SO, not letting my limited knowledge of african football get in the way of a good blog, I have decided to give the continental african cup a go as a blog subject over the next coup;e of weeks. Thats right, no more christmas food recipes.
The cup kicked off last night, the hosts (Angola, that is) versus Mala lot of people’s dark horse for the tournament. that does beg the question however, as to whether a country being flagged as a dark horse by all and sundry render their dark-horseness somewhat redundant.
Anywho, I unfortunately only caught half of last nights game, both because for the first half the darts over on BBC2 seemed far mlore engrossing, and when Lore came down from her studying, we changed over from eurosport to a double helping of House. House was quite good, the usual guff about an undiagnosable patient who is evetually diagnosed after throwing all manner of expensive tests and treatments and an epiphany on behalf of House.
The football you say? well the first was full of mislaid passes, mkissed interceptions and a lot of sweating. How hot is it over there in Luanda at the moment? that is, until the Angolese striker who did not briefly line out for Manchester United, called Flavio, and who looks like the guy out of Sin City who bled yellow and had a penchant for Jessica Alba, got two great headers after the Malian defence had parted like the proverbial sea.
Tuning in during the ad breaks in the second half, Angola had a seemingly insurmountable lead, going into injury time 4-2 up. This lead was indeed surmounted, and I am reliably informed the game finished 4-4, Mali getting all theirs in the last ten minutes.
There will be more in-depth ruminating over the state of african football as we go on, especially in the light of what happened to Togo over the weekend, and with the world cup in South Africa growing on the horizon.
Interesting Angolan fact of the day: you may not know that Angolan capital Luanda has the highest cost of living of any city in the world.
(and apologies for all the extra spelling errors i failed to see, am using Lore’s bloody azerty keyboard)
