Abandon hope all ye who try to contact me now
Sports in General | Friday 19 June 2009 by Richard BlayneyOne look at the sporting calendar this weekend and for the next month and you will see that I will be virtually untouchable and unreachable. I usually reserve such drastic matters for World Cup summers when I send a memo out to family, friends and work colleagues that my blinds will be drawn for the duration of the tournament, my fridge stacked with beer, my phone turned off during games and my attention focused on the only thing that matters every forth summer through the months of June and July. If you want my company you had better come over to watch the matches with me or join me in the pub for the match or invite me to your home for … you guessed it … the match.
But I’ve just spent the last portion of the evening looking over various sports websites and all I have been seeing are previews for the month to come. What is even more remarkable is that these events are all annual events and so I must surely have had this feeling of excitement before. I can only assume I blacked out due to being overwhelmed by it all and actually forgot what it was like to head into the month with it all in front of me. Actually, come next year, when it will indeed be a World Cup summer, I might find myself breaking down with sporting overload and waking up a few months later in some clinic, heavily sedated and under serious medical watch.
Indeed. Take a look at this …
18-21 June: US Open Golf
21 June: F1 British Grand Prix
22 June – 5 July: Wimbledon Tennis
14 June: Toronto FC v New York Red Bulls
23 June – 1 July: Blue Jays at home every day
4-26 July: Tour de France
8-12 July: The Ashes 1st test, England v Australia**
12 July: F1 German Grand Prix
16-20 July: The Ashes 2nd test, England v Australia**
16-19 July: British Open Golf
17-26 July: Blue Jays at home every day bar 20 July
18 July: Toronto FC v Houston Dynamo
** I am not a big Cricket fan but it was worth throwing in.
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