FOOTBALL MEME - DAY 25
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jenni_blogDay 25 – Describe your typical matchday routine.
It starts on Friday night when I check the TV schedule for the weekend's matches. I write down all the ones I want to watch in order to keep them straight in my mind, and to keep track of the channels they are being shown on. There could be up to ten games on one day at times. There are 4 or 5 TV channels I can watch...actually, there are more, but I find I have hardly any time for Serie A anymore, because I watch so many EPL and La Liga matches. Luckily, only one or maybe two Bundesliga games are shown per week, ditto that for Colombian, Uruguayan and Brazilian matches.
On Saturday morning I get on the computer to find out what matches are being shown online This is the only way to watch Argentine league games because of the new broadcast laws there. Then I'll have breakfast, shower, tend to the various needs of family members and then I'm ready to sit down to watch games. Sometimes I have to eat breakfast while watching because the first match can start at 7:00 am. This will be an EPL game, most likely one of the top four teams.
After this, games are shown literally back-to-back. I try not to find out what has already happened because a lot of matches have taken place at the same time. So if I get on the computer during games, it's hard not to accidentally discover the result of a match I want to watch later! Tricky.
I have to fit in chores during half-times, or if a match is really boring I'll get up and go do something else, checking back every so often to see how it's going. In this way I can do laundry, some housework that's not too intense (dusting is good), and tend to the demands of my family (sigh). Sometimes my husband will watch a match with me. He finds Manchester United, Spurs and Borussia Dortmund to be usually the most exciting.
My butt can get sore sitting around so much, so I'll try to exercise during matches as well, or doing dusting or ironing in front of the TV can help keep me active. Match-time snacks are usually tortilla chips and salsa, wraps made with Nutella and bananas, popcorn, trail mix or granola bars, washed down with water, tea, and maybe soda pop once in awhile. But I've gotta watch my waistline!
It starts on Friday night when I check the TV schedule for the weekend's matches. I write down all the ones I want to watch in order to keep them straight in my mind, and to keep track of the channels they are being shown on. There could be up to ten games on one day at times. There are 4 or 5 TV channels I can watch...actually, there are more, but I find I have hardly any time for Serie A anymore, because I watch so many EPL and La Liga matches. Luckily, only one or maybe two Bundesliga games are shown per week, ditto that for Colombian, Uruguayan and Brazilian matches.
On Saturday morning I get on the computer to find out what matches are being shown online This is the only way to watch Argentine league games because of the new broadcast laws there. Then I'll have breakfast, shower, tend to the various needs of family members and then I'm ready to sit down to watch games. Sometimes I have to eat breakfast while watching because the first match can start at 7:00 am. This will be an EPL game, most likely one of the top four teams.
After this, games are shown literally back-to-back. I try not to find out what has already happened because a lot of matches have taken place at the same time. So if I get on the computer during games, it's hard not to accidentally discover the result of a match I want to watch later! Tricky.
I have to fit in chores during half-times, or if a match is really boring I'll get up and go do something else, checking back every so often to see how it's going. In this way I can do laundry, some housework that's not too intense (dusting is good), and tend to the demands of my family (sigh). Sometimes my husband will watch a match with me. He finds Manchester United, Spurs and Borussia Dortmund to be usually the most exciting.
My butt can get sore sitting around so much, so I'll try to exercise during matches as well, or doing dusting or ironing in front of the TV can help keep me active. Match-time snacks are usually tortilla chips and salsa, wraps made with Nutella and bananas, popcorn, trail mix or granola bars, washed down with water, tea, and maybe soda pop once in awhile. But I've gotta watch my waistline!
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Date: 2011-06-01 11:21 am (UTC)idk why but watching replays isn't the same joy for me :D so if it's really important, i watch 2 at the same time, once even three haha. well i was only keeping an eye on the one that's on tv, it was arsenal. we get a lot of arsenal on tv because of arshavin :D usually i'd not bother watching on a stream but since it's on tv i follow the match.
so i watch *just* 5-6 matches a day at weekends. i sleep late and the earliest games are at 2-3pm my time and that's also the time for my *breakfast* :DDD i love lying in bed with my laptop and in the evening i often come to my parents' room to watch quiz shows on tv together, always with my laptop :D before that it's just watching watching watching, normally from 6pm (that's when most epl matches start for me) to 10 my time non-stop :D often with my fic document open (especially when commentporn is on!)
i'm vice versa, theoretically i love many players in bundesliga but we don't have it on tv and they kill all good streams (i paid for a stream once, to watch sami hyypiä's last match... where he didn't even come on, dammit). so i prefer serie a - ideally i'd watch fiorentina, juve, napoli and milan if cavani and zlatan play. often it's less (i especially tend to miss milan), but still :D in la liga this season i basically watched only atlético, checked barça's schedule out of habit but almost never watched when villa was on the pitch, i hate him :S well, if bojan happened to get a chance i watched&hearts if the people i care about leave i don't even know whether i'll watch la liga next season, maybe just barça/rm whenever villa/cr7 don't play. (i love di maría but not enough to have to see cr7)
i kinda don't really like any of sevilla, valencia, villarreal...or rather i just don't care. it's weird but just like in portugal i like all teams by default (i might rt all shit fellow benfiquistas say about porto but watching them play is nice), in la liga i'm negative about all teams by default, and they have to earn a better attitude and they can lose it easily (barça).
i also have my favourite teams in denmark and romania and both were close to relegation all season... aalborg avoided it, universitatea didn't :( so other than serie a (and epl to some extent, i almost always watch both spurs and chelsea if they're not on at the same time, and if i can has vidić or arshavin on my tv i'll also have a look) i go for width rather than depth, it's enough for me to have 1-2 teams i care about in each league.
and now i'm also falling for peñarol... :P
are any teams so special for you that you'd never get distracted/do something else while watching? for me that's spurs (only when roma plays) and benfica&hearts
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Date: 2011-06-01 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-02 09:40 am (UTC)The teams I always watch for the entire game without moving are Spurs, Wigan, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Schalke04, and Colombian or Uruguayan matches. Also every game of the Copa Libertadores this season. AND the Europa League, since they added a Europa League channel here. (When there are no Europa League matches, they show Ligue 1 (French) games. Which I don't usually bother to watch...I tried but they were boring.)
They used to show the Russian League! VERY early in the morning...like the games can start at 3:00 AM! But for some reason they stopped showing them so frequently...sad. :(
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Date: 2011-06-02 10:37 am (UTC)oh and while i don't write down what matches to watch i know the feeling &hearts i check myp2p about twice a day to check what's on that day and then in the evening to see what to look forward to tomorrow, and every 3 days or so i also check the whole week and/or the weekend :D
omg wigan? loool all spurs wigan fixtures i've seen were either insanely boring or roma scored two goals (twice) and they weren't boring XD
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Date: 2011-06-03 10:09 am (UTC)I started watching Wigan for Hugo Rodallega, and they always seemed to have the most interesting Latino players! (Like Antonio Valencia, Wilson Palacios, Marcelo Moreno, Antolin Alcaraz and Maynor Figueroa, at different times). Then when Roberto Martinez took over coaching I really liked their style. The team just got to me...it's that indefinable thing when a team grabs you and you know they are going to be a favourite. XD ♥
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Date: 2011-06-04 10:49 pm (UTC)You are totally right...so many awesome Juve players. :P
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