It's a hot hot hot day in Cape Town, and everyone is dressed appropriately - in green. It's good to be here now. Even a few people who are totally anti-sport (I ask you!) have admitted that they'll be glancing at the screen every few minutes tomorrow night. For my part, well, I'll be GLUED to it, and woe to the man or woman who walks past to get a drink as Habana dives over the try-line.
We're going to be watching the game at Boktown (the Springbok Pub in Newlands) - same place we watched the quarter- and semi-finals. The atmosphere is going to be phenomenal.
So, no-one has any stock of Springbok shirts (except for a few really dodgy ones I spotted at Tygervalley's Game earlier today - thick and fleecy and rather old-fashioned...); and houses, cars, our neighbourhood Sasol garage, and a few human faces are all sporting Springbok and SA flags. Everyone's favourite radio station, Radio 2000, played a few awesome tracks this morning as part of their build-up - one of them was Johnny Clegg's rousing Impi. I'll admit that I danced in the lounge, all on my own. Win or lose, it's going to be a good night tomorrow.
By the way, the post title will make sense if you've seen Death at a Funeral ;).
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3 comments:
Glad to find this blog, and with a quite interesting post!
Well, since the All Blacks are gone, I wish the Springboks do well. But careful...
Have a great weekend!
Gil
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Well Gil, it's great to have you as the first commenter on my new blog! Thanks for stopping by, and I'll try to keep you entertained in the months to come.
The whole country is over the moon about the world cup, as you can imagine - I'll post about it a little later.
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