The Goldfish Chronicles

Spain are the justified winners, and thanks to the growth of football on US TV I was able to see a little bit. ESPN2 had most of the matches, which I don’t have, but for the knockout rounds things moved to ESPN1 which I do have. So I watched a couple of games on there.

The final however was on ABC. Even in the 7 years I’ve been here, that’s a big jump. Sure it’s a Sunday afternoon, so not really prime time, but to be on one of the main channels is good. Even better… at last…. the commentators were the Sky Sports commentators (Andy Gray and Adrian Healey) and not some weak US equivalent. I doubt the same would happen for a World Cup when the US are playing, too much assumption that the US viewer gives a crap about the human interest stories that commentators love here, but for Euro 2008 we got some great commentating.

Now time to hide on CBC (Canadian main channel) watching the Olympics and hiding from the US TV fascination with gymnastics.

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