Ice Hockey!
Sunday February 26, 2006; part of: Blather

"Bach! Fuck, yeah yeah yeah" as the philosopher said. At 12.55 GMT, the BBC is showing live coverage of the Olympic ice hockey final. Even better, it stars Sweden and Finland. In each country, they will be preparing in their different traditional manners, the Swedes settling down with herring and six packs of beer, the Finns with their six packs of Vodka ...

Sweden won, 3-2.

Posted by andrewb at February 26, 2006 10:56 AM
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Wimp. Will you trash someone's Nokia if the Finns win?

Posted by: J. on February 26, 2006 01:04 PM

In the end, Sweden won 3-2 after I switched to Armagnac. Cold tea was never going to win this match.

I like the huge comments box. Complaints to the usual address

Posted by: acb on February 26, 2006 05:26 PM

I'll bet it wasn't hors d'age, though.

Posted by: J. on February 26, 2006 06:44 PM

You channelling HST again?

For your information, the hasidic reggae artiste is one Matisyahu and there are some bonkers videos floating around the net of him giving it plenty in gigs.

R

Posted by: Rupertg on February 26, 2006 11:25 PM

I don't think one small glass of Armagnac would be enough for HST to clean his teeth with, thanks. But ice hockey is almost the only team sport I love watching. You can't often see what's happening with the puck, any more than you can watch the ball with cricket -- perhaps it's an attraction of football that the ball is always clearly visible -- but the movement of the players is so fast and graceful, while their courage is remarkable.

Posted by: acb on February 27, 2006 07:38 AM

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