Category Archives: sport

Big Boat coming

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2011

If my sources are correct – and my sources are very rarely wrong – then at about lunchtime today, the Queen Mary 2 should be heading into Cape Town for a brief stop. This won’t be her first visit to the Mother City – she was here back in March last year. Although no longer [...]

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Great er… “weekend”…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2011

What an amazing weekend for Cape Town sports fans. There’s another football double-header at Cape Town Stadium, with Vasco da Gama up against Golden Arrows and Ajax Cape Town taking on Moroka Swallows – that’s tonight at 6pm and 8:45pm. Then there’s Pro 20 cricket at Newlands (that’s Sahara Park Newlands to you and me), [...]

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Best Safety Video Ever

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2011

They play this video on the big screens before games at the Cape Town stadium. Fortunately, I managed not to have to ask the man in yellow anything last night. There was a giant octopus around, but apparently he became distracted by happy hour on cocktails at the Radisson on the way up from Granger Bay. Thanks @futurecapetown

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The Return of the Double Header

By 6000 | 6000 | January 14, 2011

Twice the fun – well, sort of. Football Friday returns to Cape Town tonight with the PSL Double Header at the Cape Town Stadium: Vasco da Gama v Supersport United at 6:00pm and Ajax Cape Town v Kaizer Chiefs at 8:45pm and which is expected to get a crowd of forty… forty-five thousand. I’m quite [...]

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Jo Flo

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2011

Incoming from my Dad: Did you know? Former Blade Jostein Flo is one of very few players to have a move or specific tactic named after him. In Norwegian, it is called “Flopasning” – translated into English as “The Flo Pass”. It gained prominence during a period of the early 1990s when the Scandinavians were [...]

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