For the football fan, especially in world cup years (after a month-long indigestion), summer is the most boring time of the year. Not only because no (real) football is played, but especially because of the truckloads of rubbish we have to endure on all kinds of sports media who just spread news for the sake of filling their pages or websites or whatever. I personally end up following Intertoto matches, all kinds of European competition preliminaries (where you get to brush up your georgraphy, especially that of Eastern post-1989 Europe as you try to figure out who the hell Hafnarfjördur are), and ...erm I admit..even the Norwegian League (well, they at least have their league in its most interesting stages, and I can say I have been to one match this year in Lillestrom to watch my compatriot Michael Mifsud - by the way, he might be on his way to a better club elsewhere...). The rest is crap: judiciary proceedings in Italy, lambasting Cristiano Ronaldo in England, and all the transfer news imaginable linked to Real Madrid and Inter (they might take
me up for a trial as well in the end).
Happy holidays!
