Relativity of time

Winter seems to be sliding away and back into the cellar till next year's appearance.

Bafana Bafana, under new coach, meets Ghana's Black Stars in Soccer City next week. Good way to kick the post world cup blues into oblivion and start a new campaign for the 2012 Africa Cup and 2014 Brazil.

The week's been rolling away as it seems to do faster and faster. Illusions of time. Relativity of time.

The week that just was. Sunday Times. NPA. BP and its 'cap'. Liverpool FC maybe owned by Chinese government. Kenyan referendum. Deadly fire. Gautrain rats. Strike or no strike. BA launching extra daily flight to Cape Town. Lectures. New biographies from Jay Naidoo and Dennis Goldberg. And from Rica too. Final print and shaky deadlines. Juba. Kigali. The Beira-Blantyre-Harare link. Diamonds. Catwalk courtroom. Blackberry bans. Tshabalala wants to go to Europe to kick some balls there. Generator. Alex to the rescue. Toy Story 3. Young Livers and their tunes.

Suspended

Get this. Middle of afternoon my emails stopped working. Internet connectivity still ok.

Get hold of the company that hosts my email system and get message that my account has been suspended because it has been hacked!!! What the *&^%$?!?

Then I get a response of what technical issues to check etc. I think I udnerstand Mandarin and Cantonese and Russian much better than that technical language. Wow.

So i passed it on to a friend who knows about the dark world of the www. Waiting and hoping now.... I've been hacked!

WC blues

Winter moves on across the post-world cup nation. But I spotted some new blossoms here and there which indicates that spring is just lurking around the corner.

Post FIFA blues. Jordaan has joined the Blatter conglomerate. Mandela Day across the globe. Bill Clinton says he wants to climb Kilimanjaro. Tutu joins former French president Chirac in a new UN AIDS body to find new ways to speed up the fight against the killing virus. Baby scandal. Rwandan elections. SAA. BP remains in the news. Toy Story 3 is out. Liverpool signs Cole. Indonesian Muslims object to devil logo on Manchester Utd shirts. Biographies from Naidoo and Goldberg. What's the Gautrain construction schedule these days? When will Rosebank station be open for biz? Mzansi Magic launched. European heatwave. Jozi is back to its usual self.

2014

Can you feel it? The cup has left the nation...

The cup as such to Madrid... Well in fact a replica cup to Spain, cause the real one (in its LV bag) always stays with the FIFA mob in Switzerland.

...And the world cup as an event has now moved on to Brazil where the next clash to grab the world champion title will be held in 2014.

Told ya...

Told ya..... Viva Espana Viva.

Euro champions in 2008 and now world champions.

And great final ceremony at Soccer City where next we'll welcome the All Blacks.

Paul vs Pauline

It's turning into underwater animal abuse.

Since the start of the worldcup Paul the octopus in Germany has correctly predicted the outcome of all Germany's games in South Africa so far by choosing the mussel in the box with the flag on of the team that would win.

All correct so far. German victories against Australia, Ghana, England and Argentina, and German defeats against Serbia and Spain. Now Paul predicts Germany will beat Uruguay tomorrow in the so called small final.

Then Paul was put to the test regarding the Holland - Spain final. A first prediction without Germany involved. Paul went for the mussel in the Spanish box and thus..... Spain will be world champion on Sunday.

The Dutch didn't take it lightly. They found their own octopus in a zoo in The Hague. A female octopus called Pauline. Same mussle trick. Pauline went for the box with the Dutch flag.

Animal rights activists should have a look at this maybe.

Visa Espana Viva

And there you have it. The 2010 worldcup final will be between Spain and The Netherlands. A clash between European brothers. Superstars Brazil can watch it on TV back home.

The header by Spanish defender Puyol last night against Germany was hardcore. Spain outclassed Germany in passing and tactical control of the game. Amazing to watch.

It's part of the beauty of soccer. It has a strong element of unpredictability. Germany cruised through the worldcup with 4-0 trashings of Australia and Maradona's Argentina, and also sending the proud English home 4-1. Amazing record during a worldcup.

Spain on the other hand started bad with a surprise loss against tiny Switzerland. Then they moved through the worldcup without convincing at all.

And now the tables are turned. Last night Spain was magical.

And thus, as I said many times, I support Spain to be crowned world champions next Sunday. Viva Espana viva.