Swandives

I love to flick channels during ads on television. It's annoying, I know, but I don't like taping shows so I quite often watch two (or more) shows at once. These days it's a bit of a useless passtime, as stations seem to sync their ads, but last night I had the unfortunate experience of flicking onto the Footy Show.

What a lot of louts. Why bother flying all the way to Germany if you know so little about the beautiful game that you don't even know how the teams are picked? Seriously - they didn't know about the final draw or how it works. It was embarrassing.

I am not, in general, a huge sports fan. And I've been fortunate enough to go to a World Cup Final Draw (in Korea). I realise not everybody is going to understand how it works. But all last night's performance by the boorish men of so-called 'football' showed was just how arrogant they are. That they can spend all that money (and given the sackings of several members of the news team last week, that in itself is puzzling) to turn up, profess complete ignorance of the game and generally encourage loutish Australians is a shocker, I reckon (she says in her broadest strine accent).