So Euro 2012 is everywhere. For the uninitiated Euro 2012 is the football (soccer) championships - not the World Cup of soccer, just the European countries but just as rowdy if not more so. Anyway, every night the TV lounge is full of fans from around the world cheering on teams made up of the counties best players - kind of like the Olympics but for professionals and only Europeans.
To admit that I find soccer boring is sacrilegious but there it is. I've said it. It's a bunch of guys running up and down a huge field kicking a small white ball. The camera has to stay wide to give you a sense of any action and the only real intense moment is when someone tries for a goal - with scores 0-2 or 1-2 there isn't much of that. OK, and there is only one real rule anyone ever talks about - the Off Side Rule.
The guys in the lounge tried to explain but muddled it and my questions were disrupting their devotions so I quit trying to understand. Yesterday, in the office, Christoph patiently taught me the hows and whys of the Off Side Rule using a Frankfurter Weihnchtsmarkt mug, a jar of Turkish spices, a bottle of pure Canadian maple syrup and a set of house keys. A true Bend it like Beckham moment. And the kicker (pun intended) was that I finally understood.
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