A Game of Two Sports

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Two games, two washing machines. The two games of course being the Wimbledon Men's final and the Euro thing in Germany. In the first, Spain's Carlos Alcararaz took the title again, beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets; in the second, England are playing Spain in the Euros. It is currently half-time, and the score is, surprise, surprise: 0-0. I honestly can't remember when the era of boring football began, but it's going back a few years. These days it really is a tedious game, and it comes to something when tackling a malfunctioning washing machine trumps what is laughably termed 'The Beautiful Game'. These days, it reminds me more of some endless corporate boardroom debate than a sport.

As to the washing machines, the one pictured is the outgoing, having exhibited software bugs, exceptions and/or anomalies in its microcontroller: the vast bulk of the machine being perfectly fine and capable of normal function. [By the way, Spain have just scored] This leads me to the conclusion that I can rescue this thing from the scrapheap fate that it otherwise would have faced. But not today, as we need a working machine in the cottage, stat. We'd ordered a replacement machine which arrived yesterday; and a cursory look at the old machine told me that an instant repair wasn't going to happen, so I plumbed in the new one, which is now working its way through its second wash since installation this afternoon; the backlog of washing now somewhat desperate in nature.

Anyway, back to the sport: it looks like it's Spain's day today, both in the tennis and the football [which I'm second-guessing], and I'm afraid The Beautiful Launderette has trumped The Beautiful Game in Rachub today, although the tennis wasn't half bad...

Addendum: England have just equalised: maybe not so tedious after all - unless it goes to fecking penalties, of course... Addendum the second: Spain are up by another, and the last quarter of the game has given me some hope that football could be interesting again... Addendum the third: final score 2:1 to Spain. There you go...

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