The Liver is Evil and must be Punished (and it was – well and truly)!

An apt T-shirt slogan I first saw at the 7’s a few year’s back, which seemed to be doing the rounds again this year. Quite befitting for Hong Kong’s premier ‘sporting’ event.
I mention sporting as there was actually some rugby played, although there will be quite a few people out there who will not be able to recount any of the games from over the weekend.

The South Stand was home to its usual goings on over the weekend (below right) and the streets of Wan Chai were scenes of the normal post match carnage.

All in all there were some very good matches. As for England’s attempt of making it 5 HK tournament wins in a row, well that’s not something I want to go into, however, lets just say that the wheels well and truly came off the ‘Chariot’ during the match against the Kiwis, early on Sunday afternoon. I have posted a photo below taken when the score with New Zealand was level - which it was for about the first 30 seconds following the kick off. Things went rapidly down hill from thereon after.

Finally, a special thank you must be mentioned to Sean’s missus for providing us with all the free beer vouchers (courtesy of a certain delivery company), which kept us well ‘watered’ with jug after jug of Heineken throughout the weekend. One small request though - any chance of getting us vouchers for Carlsberg next year?

Swing Lo, Sweet Chariot...

It’s that time of year again where drunken revelry, outlandish behaviour, daft costumes, over indulgence and general naughtiness become the norm in Hong Kong - well in and around the Stadium and the bars of Wan Chai afterwards. Yes, the Rugby 7’s kick off this afternoon and a 3 day ‘hedonistic orgy’ (as today’s South China Morning Post puts it) awaits all of us lucky enough to have a ticket.

After missing last year’s 7’s which was U2’s fault – not mine (tenuous but I will explain later *), I am eagerly anticipating this year’s event. The IRB 7’s series is currently wide open with England under pressure to gain a result in Hong Kong to stay in contention, so there should be some good games over the weekend – not that you normally see any of them as it tends to distract from the serious business of drinking and generally watching what is going on around you.

So I apologise in advance to those of you who receive an intoxicated phone call from me at some inappropriate hour saying that I think you are a great mate, how much I miss you and that that I really, really love you etc. In the same respect, I also apologise to those of you who I do not call - it does not mean that I don’t think the same about you (of course I do), it just means that I have either come to my senses and thought better of it, run out of battery, somehow locked the keypad or worse, lost my phone!

Well, that’s enough from me for now. Just Friday afternoon to get through then I’ll be heading off to the stadium. Can England make it 5 in a row? – I sincerely hope so!

En..ger...lund! En..ger...lund!


* Last year we had tickets to see U2 in Japan the same weekend as the 7’s. A couple of weeks before the concert, U2 had to postpone the final leg of the tour including the Japan date (for very valid reasons I must add), which left me ticket less for the 7’s!