Musings from an Arsenal fan living in London
The day spent at Lord’s exceeded even my lofty expectations. It might not have been the most exciting day’s play but it was great sporting theatre.
The venue undoubtedly added to the spectacle. I worked at Lord’s for a brief few years back in the 90’s, so I was familiar with many of the special nuances of the place. But even I was impressed by the magnificence of the ground. The place looked majestic.
My ongoing education in the field of front-end web development is steadily moving forward. It’s a maddening experience at times, but I’m enjoying the minor victories amongst the mandatory expletives as I search for that elusive missing character.
I’m loving the challenge of mastering, which is at times, a pretty complex field. I keep on saying to myself the hour-long search to debug a broken site is productive time. I’m storing up a memory bank of solutions to common, often repeated mistakes when building a web page. A huge source of comfort remains the web community, who are on hand to assist when I’m pulling my hair out.
It occurred to me as I stumbled across the highlights of the 20/20 game between Hampshire and Glamorgan when channel surfing, that generally, we often make a pretty poor attempt at marketing our top level sports.
You can’t help but compare our short over competition with the IPL in India and the Big Bash in Australia. They really know how to promote the event globally. I readily concede that the world’s stars were tempted by the big salaries to play in those competitions. The TV revenues far exceed the sums Sky are paying for our competition. But maybe there lies the problem. We need to get some momentum behind the T20 blast. A real desire to invest in the tournament and to back our ability to compete with the rival competitions.
