I realised today there is a World Cup of Football starting on Sunday. I mean - I knew already, but it has dropped in and out of my conscience because I haven't had to really think about it too much; and that's the wonderful thing about it. In the past, major sporting events - especially soccer ones - have caused a massive upturn in my workload because, in the world of supermarket retail, taking advantage of current events to maximise profits and squeeze a few extra pounds out of your poor customers is huge. Now - apart from agreeing to allow staff to decorate the bars with England flags and allowing them to take extended lunch breaks to watch lunchtime games - my life has been pretty unaffected.
Even to me, though - an uninterested, unsporty, unpatriotic man in his thirties - it feels weird that this is happening in Winter. It's a bit like me being expected to watch a Summer Super Bowl. It's just not right.
Anyway, for those of you who let their life be dominated by how well your chosen team is doing, I send you my best wishes for a successful tournament and an enjoyable Festival of Football (that isn't really a festival because it's happening in Winter, but let's not go on about that).
And if you're interested in placing a bet on the eventual winners, I have a couple of tips.
First, based solely on how much I like their kits, I'd put a pound or two on ARGENTINA.
Then, I found a 'World Cup Calculator' thing online that lets you predict what the result of each game will be, and then the algorithm works out for you what the rest of the tournament will look like. I did that this morning, rolling dice to determine the number of goals scored in each match by either team, and after doing that for all 64 games, in the group stages and knockout face, the country that won the final was SENEGAL.
Get on it...
RC 18-11-22
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