really big televisions

our local stadium has one thats 9.3metres by 24.8. impressive.
unfortunately the football team is pish.

In an attempt to distract ourselves from a typical summer evening, we got tickets for Cerezo Osaka versus Fiorentina. one of the many European teams to be over doing a tour of Japan (for very large bags of cash judging by the ticket price). unfortunately Cerezo are, well, crap. and given that Fiorentina are only marginally better - even if Nakata does play for them - lets just say it wasn't the spectacle of the year. I'd rather have endured baseball. to cut a long story short it was 3-0 to the Italians.

so anyway - as happens in every country after a defeat - about 8 of us decided to get mad with the asahi. a short walk later we were in the local supermarket buying vast quantities of beer and fireworks. a great combination in theory. we got a load of roman candles - the hand held kind that fire off about 5 shots a go - and headed for the wee park nearby. yuka turned out to be the best shot, missing a colleagues head by not much at all. I think, in the excitement, she'd forgotten that these were fast moving explosives (not to get over dramatic about it) but it was a good fight and all seemed fine apart from a little shell shock.

on thursday we also heard of Celtic FC's new aquisition - Shunsuke Nakamura - the first Japanese to play football in Scotland. the story seems to be that he wants to go to Spain, but only after a decent Champions league run and experience with Celtic - presumably so he can choose to go to Real and not Mallorca. sadly for the him not only will he have to endure the pissing rain for the next year but his new team have shot themselves in the foot by losing 5-0 in that very league. and his new team mate will be Chinese. as long as he wasn't one of the twenty thousand attending the anti-Japanese rally in Beijing recently (and subsequent riot at the embassy) - they should get along famously.

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