It has been two plus weeks or so of some major sports events in the globe that capture my interest. My sporting mind and heart have been wearing their sports regalia to check and control the refugium causing them geographical as well as political disturbances. Without mincing words, the regalement I am currently enjoying derives…
The events took me away, even momentarily, from the plague plaguing this country – your country my country our country. What of the other news, the football news, from Saudi Arabia in the Middle East and the ones from Budapest in Hungary in Eastern Europe where the 2023 World Athletic Championships are still on?
When it came to the penalty shoot-out after extra time, our girls, our first two players, suddenly grew the feet of doves rather than the feet of Falcons. But our Super Falcons gave us super pride after all they went through before they flew to Australia. Football-win-or-lose games-betting influencers who stake all kinds of resources and things to win or lose bets were at work. Spain, well disgraced by Japan in the group stage, was primed to beat the European Champions. The Lionesses were given fruits rather than lambs, to consume in the final. And they lost to the un-fancied women and girls from Spain who surprised even themselves in the game of their lives.