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Monday, May 29, 2006

 

Who cares if Brad fucking Pitt has a baby???

Little action on Sunday. The game at Arema against Bandung was abandoned with the hosts 2-0 up, the pitch was flooded and unplayable.

Meanwhile fixtures featuring Yogyakarta and Slemen were called off as people's minds were else where following on from the earthquake in Bantul. At work today I heard of people who had lost family members and of others who were rushing back to see what they could do to help their family members. Aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, grannies and granddads are sleeping rough as houses have been demolished and obviously minds are not on work at this time.

Trains and buses are full as people go to see how they can help while elder family members would rather stay homeless at home than under a roof in big bad Jakarta. Homes are rubble, beongings destroyed and there ain't no insurance to cover it, times are going to be hard for many people in the future.

The legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankley once famously said football is more than a matter of life and death. He was wrong...


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