Jan 3
đ5ď¸âŁ Plenty of time in 2020 to watch the box you’d think, although I have to say for very long periods I struggled so much separating work from home that I would settle for something mindless over immersing myself into a proper series.
Hard fought..
And a stuttering and often ugly performance tonight but 3 very valuable points against what I was thought was a very decent Rochdale team, playing with a style far better than their league position indicates.
I watched for the first time on EFL’s iFollow service, which allows overseas fans to watch live games. Charlton remember don’t subscribe to iFollow but almost all of our League One opponents do and for a fiver for a match pass I thought it was good. No commentary just live pictures and atmosphere, although there was a delay in the sound, but I’d recommend it, if you are able to take advantage. By the way I would encourage you take this CAFC media team’s survey on their Valley Pass service.
I stayed up way past my bedtime last night to see the Chicago Bulls succumb late in the 5th game of the Eastern Conference Final against the Miami Heat.
Heat of course are the Galacticos of the NBA with a wageroll to shadow that of Manchester City and the team is less than half City’s in number.
The Bulls were ahead by 12 points with just over 3 minutes to go, but 180 seconds can be a long time in the NBA and with LeBron James and Dwayne Wade sparkling the Heat were level 2 minutes later. Then with 22 seconds on the clock Derrick Rose of all people missed from the free-throw line to level the scores at 81 each, and for the 2nd game running Miami came from behind late in the game to win after looking like they were beat. Think Man United.
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A year ago I wrote about a little known American university that turned the form book upside down and made it to the Final Four of North America’s biggest college basketball tournament. Imagine the boat-race, tens of thousands more fans, face painting instead of boaters, 63 more teams and a large orange ball.
For the last 3 weeks the NCAA’s College Basketball Championship has been taking place over different nights in different cities – think the FA Cup on speed – and this weekend in Houston the final four teams compete to win the coveted trophy first contested for in 1939.
I adopted Butler University as my basketball college team purely because I had a few Chicago friends, and one in particular go there. I got taken to a few games and I was drawn in by their history and it’s general underdog charm.
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Longboat Key, Florida
