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You’re on Sky Sports

Back in May, I went up to Liverpool to watch the European Champions League Final in an Anfield pub, and wrote about it in this entry.

Sky News were there too, and whilst I wasn’t keen on being interviewed, Dan and I did manage to get ourselves in the shot a couple of times, to the delight of our friends and the embarassment of our families.

Dan finally brought the VHS tape over for conversion to a more portable format, but not without first chewing up the tape in his own VCR, destroying said VCR to recover it, leaving it on a train to Birmingham, retrieving it again, then finally chewing up the tape in my VCR, and thankfully recovering it one last time. Then it took a week for me to find the right cables. Here are the clips.

First attempt

Drunkenness: 1/10
Time on screen: 8/10
Rabbit-in-headlights impression: 10/10

Second attempt

Drunkenness: 4/10
Time on screen: 3/10
Cheesy wave: 10/10

Our Friends In The North

Liverpool FC celebrate winning the 2005 European Cup

I’ve been in Merseyside for the past week. I took some time off work, travelled to The Arkles pub in Anfield, Liverpool to watch THAT MATCH (managing to get on Sky News in the process), and spent the following few days catching up with friends old and new in the town where I grew up. Lots and lots to write about, and no time in which to do it. I’m back at the office in eight hours or so, so will try to catch up later in the week.