Ordinary Gweilo

It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong

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Month: Nov 2007

  • A picture is worth, er, £225,000

    I can’t help smiling at this story.  Firstly, that Wigan should want Steve Bruce as their manager, after his earlier stint lasted 7 weeks, and secondly that the deal should be held up because of a dispute about, er, image rights. Cash row halts Bruce’s Wigan move Steve Bruce is being prevented from becoming the…

  • Expectations

    It’s a feature of England qualifying campaigns.  There will always be a stage where England appear to have blown it, followed by a reprieve caused (at least in part) by another team. This time it did appear that England would dig themselves out of the hole all by themselves, with a string of 3-0 victories…

  • New blog

    I just noticed that the very first post here was exactly 4 years ago.  There are still a few other of my contemporaries hanging on, but only just.  I know how they feel! There are probably dozens of splendid blogs out there, but these days I don’t seem to have the enthusiasm to look for them…

  • Cold front

    When I was first in Hong Kong, I remember looking out of my hotel window one evening and thinking to myself that I needed to wear a jacket when I went out.  Well, I felt a bit cold, and it seemed logical that it would be cool in the evening.  Somehow my brain hadn’t registered that…

  • It’ll never catch on

    Things have changed somwhat in the world of televised football in the last 20 years: Peter Robinson, the former Liverpool chief executive, remembers the start of the 1985-86 season, when football was not televised at all. ‘There was no deal in place. It only came back on at New Year and the value of the…

  • Guilty, apparently

    Has the law been changed?  Is it OK for newspapers to tell us who committed a crime long before it even gets to court?  Are people no longer presumed to be innocent until they’re proven guilty?   Yes, it’s the SCMP: Spiderman scales block to stab ex-girlfriend Attacker, on bail for rape, stabs ex-lover 7 or 8…

  • Idiot on board

    I see that the government is auctioning off more ‘vanity plates’.  Is there any better way of saying "I am a plonker" than paying good money to have your own personalized number plate?  Not that I’m complaining – as a taxpayer, I have to approve, and as a bonus it always gives me a laugh…

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  • No!

    It seems that Leicester fans may have been celebrating prematurely when Gary Megson left: Leicester have interviewed Joe Royle, Peter Reid and Graeme Souness for the manager’s job and the appointment could be made by Saturday. BBC Sport understands chairman Milan Mandaric is keen to put the new man in charge before this weekend’s visit…