Reasons to Be Cheerful

Usually I’m quick to criticise Robyn’s ever expanding TiVo wishlists/season pass lists. Seriously, 99% of the TiVo recordings are hers, and 95% of those are “just because.” But we found out tonight that the one I criticise the most has finally paid off, for me at least…

Before we went to the UK a couple of years ago, she set up a Scotland and Scottish wishlist to capture anything remotely interesting before her first visit. It was usually travel programmes, some good, most bad, but the wishlists stayed. Nowadays it throws up travel, cooking and the occasional PBS programme that may or may not be worthwhile, but as she exclaimed tonight, it caught something interesting.

Sweetness… Long time readers will know the efforts I’ve gone through to seeing or listening to Scotland games in the past, like the France vs. Scotland game in French for instance. I’ve never had it so easy, it’s now on my TV, recordable, what a novel concept… One I might get used to.

A little more searching unearthed a stunning turn of events…

FUCK ME! This is the game to end all games… I’ve not seen a Rangers game since… Well, if you must know it was the Partick Thistle game on November 1st 2003, a game I was at! So basically 4½ years, give or take… Sure, it’s not live, in fact it’s going to be over a day old by the time I get to see it, but it matters not. I finally get to see a Rangers game, and it’s the biggest game of the year. I’ll have to turn off the internet for the weekend, avoid any kind of contact to anyone who might know the score (which is harder than you might think).

I’m more stunned that Fox Soccer is showing anything related to Scottish football, as it seems to me they have an English bias, but I won’t complain, I can only hope it’s a sign of things to come…