{"id":1703,"date":"2010-11-05T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T08:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2010-11-05T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T08:41:25","slug":"its-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the wait&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, here I sit at 8.21am, waiting for the tickets for the Foo Fighters to go on sale for MK Bowl&#8230;this, today, is my &#8220;raison d&#8217;etre&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But while I wait (impatiently), I&#8217;ll type some random stuff here (no change there then huh?)<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the papers are reporting that <a title=\"Gareth Bale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tottenhamhotspur.com\/players\/first_team\/garethbale.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bale<\/a> is now worth \u00a350 million to the big clubs &#8211; allegedly. I say allegedly, because Spurs would have to want to sell him (or him want to leave) for a figure to be actually put on him, and as Spurs now have a squad of committed long-term players who can see we&#8217;re onto big things here &#8211; they all want to be part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, it was worked out that Bale ran 37 yards in 3.5 seconds the other night to setup the third goal &#8211; the old great Spurs players have all commented that he&#8217;s very close to being the perfect winger, pace, vision, and crucially &#8211; the end product, whether it be a shot or a cross, is spot on. The standard English remark after mentioning Bale is: &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t he be English?&#8221; This guy is great &#8211; you listen to his post match interviews (and he&#8217;s NEVER even out of breath) and he&#8217;s so modest &#8211; I felt quite sorry for him after the first game at the San Siro &#8211; his second half performance and hattrick silenced the San Siro (well, not the Spurs end \ud83d\ude09 ) yet he didn&#8217;t even seem to care about <strong>SCORING 3 GOALS AGAINST THE BEST CLUB TEAM IN THE WORLD, ON THEIR OWN GROUND<\/strong>, that night in his interview, he WAS Spurs &#8211; on the night they hadn&#8217;t won, but they had scared the shit out of the Italian giants, and his own personal achievement was put aside for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>27 minutes to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not blogged much lately about myself &#8211; well, that&#8217;s &#8216;cos not a great deal has been happening, I&#8217;m in my semi-hibernation mode avoiding people now until new year (apart from Pendulum at Wembley Arena on December 3rd \ud83d\ude42 ). I&#8217;m also trying to not see\/speak to certain people &#8211; it just keeps hurting me, so I&#8217;m doing the big thing and attempting (again) to move on&#8230;we&#8217;ll see how that goes eh?<\/p>\n<p>Well, better get some work done (by that I mean get more coffee) &#8211; ciao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here I sit at 8.21am, waiting for the tickets for the Foo Fighters to go on sale for MK Bowl&#8230;this, today, is my &#8220;raison d&#8217;etre&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 But while I wait (impatiently), I&#8217;ll type some random stuff here (no change there then huh?) Firstly, the papers are reporting that Bale is now worth \u00a350 million to the big clubs &#8211; allegedly. I say allegedly, because Spurs would have to want to sell him (or him want to leave) for a figure to be actually put on him, and as Spurs now have a squad of committed long-term players who can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[672,214,412,673],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-bale","tag-foo-fighters","tag-pendulum","tag-quick-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}