It never ceases to amaze me how people come to Cape Town from all over the country and are staggered by the amount of beautiful women we have in the Mother City. People flock from unheard of places like Fouriesberg, Buffelsfontein, Diepsloot, Durban and Pietermaritzburg to walk around mouths agape at our impressively talented female collection.
This phenomenon continues however when we too leave the confines of our fishbowl. My mate Joey just got back from Biaritz, (think Serge Betsen) and he said the chicks were to die for. So the theory goes that when you get stuck with something you get complacent and when you remove your blinkers and open your eyes to what else is available you get stunned.
I realized this first hand this weekend. For a decade (or so they claim) the lovely people at multi-choice have bought us DSTV and 10 channels of Supersport. For a decade we have been in total debt for their brilliant sport coverage. And like all other weekends they bought us ‘great’ coverage this weekend.
We had the Premier Division Currie Cup semifinals, the First Division final of the Currie Cup, the Grand Prix on Sunday morning, the finals of the Kremlin Cup, numerous soccer match-ups from England, Italy and Spain, the entire coverage of both one-day games between SA ‘A’ and New Zealand. And on top of this they had their usual supersport highlights channel, news channel and ESPN.
HOWEVER, nowhere, at no time, either live or delayed did they show the NPC semis finals. They didn’t even show the highlights!!! How often does Otago (or anyone) beat the mighty Crusaders at Jade Stadium in Christchurch by 15 points and when ever are 10 tries scored in a semi final of any rugby competition like when Auckland beat North Harbour on Saturday morning?
Yes, really super coverage. Instead I had to watch terrible summer cricket ads, John Smit motivational ads, Shark Bite (fuck sakes), an NPC ad (interestingly enough) and the two semifinals of the pathetic excuse for a rugby competition we call the Currie Cup. It was nice watching the Free State anonymous XV beat the blue&white striped Springboks and Anton Leonard popping his shoulder but I wanted to see real rugby.
God help them if they don’t show Auckland v Otago next weekend…
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