World Cup games continue, now into quarter finals with Morocco playing Portugal and England against France tonight. Game times pretty well ideal here - five and nine pm but don’t really expect another winter World Cup as this was an accommodation made for Qatar, which is much too hot in summer, although Arsene Wenger, former Arsenal manager predicts more winter World Cups as other nouveau riche nations in other hotspots join in. Meanwhile everyone in the world is watching, including the people in the next flat, who have the volume high enough to compensate for ours being turned pretty far down. Could be off altogether as excited Greek commentary not entirely helpful, but as J says the announcer tone and crowd response are cues as important to following the play as suspense music in a horror film. Don’t know if the people in the next flat are actually Greek speaking or not. Most probably not as guests here usually aren’t.
But Greek commentary no drawback when the national anthems are played. Think it’s our first time listening to God Save the King and it still sounds slightly wrong. Though nothing equals The Marseillaise. And tonight the English didn’t equal the French - score was 2-1.
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