The George London

Today I tried a Pub a little bit closer to my home, I choose the George London as my target for the day. It is located at Liverpool Street and in all honesty I actually saw the pub on my way home and saw that they were showing football, and I thought it seemed to be a good place.

The Game of the day was the early one: Chelsea - Manchester City.

Chelsea was running as a train in the league, and Manchester City hadn't won a away game for two months, and with Chelsea not losing a single home match in the Premier League since 2008 it was destined to end up with one result. And with Wayne Bridge facing off Against John Terry during the current scandal with Terry and Bridges ex, it will be quite amusing to see.

Atmosphere: It's a nice and quite plain pub, with two big screens at each side of the room with a quite mellow atmosphere. The big footie fans wasn't there so there weren't much of a football atmosphere there, but it was quite comfortable to sit down and have a look at the game.

Rating: M M M

Drinks: Did not have anything to drink today, because of an illness, but had a quick look at the bar menu, and it was a quite normal menu, with the regular English beers & ales.

Rating: M M +

Fun: There isn't really anything to do between the halfs, or after the game. The people there are mostly buisnessmen/women, who just come down for a quick bite or a bit of the match. And I really didn't feel like bothering one of the busy buisnessmen/women so I choose not to.

Rating: ½ M

What happened with the game, Incredibly enough Manchester City ended up on top, after winning with 2-4.

Goalscorers: Chelsea; Frank Lampard x2. Man City: Carlos Tevez x2, Craig Bellamy x2,

Best way to watch football - At your mates house

My Friend is a very big fan of the Italian team Inter Milan, and always saying how they are the best in the world, and that they will beat English teams whenever wherever. So yesterday it was Inter Milan vs Chelsea FC, so he invited me over to watch the game with him.

We where about 6 people there, one Italian fan "as I like to call him" and the rest of us England fans - no one of os rather like Chelsea, but we all love to see England doing well against other teams.

Well on to the experience, it is quite funny to sit around with your mates watching football, but the 'dangerous' part of it is that it becomes a bit to funny. you don't really concentrate that much on the game and fall in to discussions about who's teams really is the best and what would have happen if they would face off.

But there are good things about it as well, as my friend put it, love the free food.

Watching football with your mates is a great way to have a good laugh but not the best to really enjoy the football match.

I rate it at 2 out of 5 M's

The Northcote London

Todays Match was Manchester City vs Liverpool.

A Fight for the fourth place, with Liverpool: a common face in Englands Big Four, struggling and needing a win against the multi million spending Manchester City, who was in really good place for overtaking the desirable fourth place.

So I went to the Northcote London Pub. Haven't really heard a lot about the pub, apart from my friend who lives close to it, likes it alot. So i decided to try it.

Closest Tube station to the pub is Clapham Junction.

There are two big screens opposite the room, which offers you a good viem from whichever part of the room you sit down in.

The Atmosphere: It is a super relaxed atmosphere with extremly friendly staff which is quite pleasant. But I feel it takes a bit out of the football feeling out of it. You are a bit too relaxed and you really aren't jumping at every chance missed, youre just enjoying the atmoshpere rather then the football.
Rating: M M M M M for comfort M M = For footballing feeling but the overall atmosphere gets Three M's

Drinks: Not very expensive and not very cheap, they land somewhere in the middle, and there wasn't a lot and there wasn't to little - well you see where im going with this, it is quite in the middle.
Rating: M M M

Fun: There isn't many activites to do in the Northcote Pub, but because of the friendly staff and the relaxed atmosphere in the pub time between the halfs fly away.
Rating : M M M +

Overall Rating: M M M.

The Bar Kick

Everton vs Manchester United - was the match of today. So I went to the Bar Kick in Shoreditch. Having heard a lot about it i decided that I would pay it a visit.

The closest Tube to The bar kick is Old Street.











So a little about the game first, Everton vs Manchester United, Wayne Rooney returns to Goodison Park, after leaving the club under negative circumstanses.

Manchester United had a great possibility to further their titleshots if the could put off a win at the Goodison, but after a slow start by the "Toffees" the had really hit a top form and was topping the Premier League form league.

So then, lets talk about the pub.

Atmosphere: Their was a great atmosphere in the pub, with both Manchester United and Everton fans. singing, shouting and trying to encourage their team. And luckily there wasn't any "bad blood" in the pub, the both teams fans were quite freindly and social with eachother. The atmosphere gets 4 out of 5 M's

Drinks: They have a great variety of drinks with a lot of foreign drinks, I even found the beer menu on the home page so have a look to see if your favorite drink is there. MENU
Rating: M M M M

Other: all around the pub there is a lot of football tables so that's something you could do between the halfs or after the game, it is quite fun actually.
Rating: M M M +


Overall Rating: M M M M

Porto Vs Arsenal. Still looking for the best place to watch football

So as I'm still looking for the best place to watch football, I have tried some of different places such as different Pubs, and a betting shop. So for the Porto vs Arsenal Champions League fixture I decided that I would watch it at home.

There is a great feeling of watching your favorite team in your own home, in your own sofa."my favorite team being Arsenal". You decide the volume on the telly, you can sit wherever you please and if your team isn't doing that well you don't need to hear the other team shouting and celebrating. And if your not living with a lot of flatmates or a big family there isn't a big queue to the toilet.

but there is downsides as well, it isn't as funny as being in the pub with your mates and enjoying your team beating the other. and sometimes you do wanna see the misery of the other teams fans, wondering why the are facing defeat.

Atmosphere: You can create your own atmosphere, so however you want it you can have it.

M M M M M

Drinks: Im always prepared with whatever I might fancy during the game, might be some chips and just one beer. On the other hand on those heavy days when the Arsenal aren't doing so well, I bring out the tequila. So be prepared and it will be perfect.

M M M M M


Fun: Well I have a PS3 at home so between the halfs I usally play a little FIFA 10 or go on my computer and internet surf. So I can enjoy myself quite a lot during halftime or after the games.
Best part about it as that directly after the game, your at home no need for a long bus or tube ride home.

M M M M M


Overall rating: M M M M M

Watching football matches in 3D ?

Found an interesting piece on the Guardian news site.

The 11th of June 2010 could be a historical moment. The TV-company ESPN has decided that they will use the opening match of the World Cup "to unveil the first dedicated 3D television network" so that viewers can be able to watch the glory of football matches in 3D.

But it will cost you your shirt at first, the cost of getting the televisions that are 3D-ready will cost over 2000$ to begin with.

This will create a way to make you feel as if you were in the stadium even though you're actually sitting at home.

This will be groundbreaking and a revolution in how we watch football in the modern day. For me the HD quality is still unbelievable, but now they are making it even better. Thumbs up from me!

Even though it will probably take a year or two until we can watch 3D matches quite normally. But I can not wait for the day, when we can.

THATS A GREAT WAY TO WATCH FOOTBALL ! =)

Link to the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/06/espn-3d-world-cup-ces

The Sports Cafe

I was supposed to watch the Milan v Manchester united game at the famous sports cafe in Piccadilly last night, but I didn't go.

Coming home from school yesterday I had a big headache and felt a bit ill. And due to the weather that wasn't the greatest I choose to stay at home and not risk being sick.

But that's not the end for the sports cafe for me, I will stop by for another Champions League fixture next week.

Porto v Arsenal tonight, Very excited.

Venue: Home.

When there is no live football ...

A regular monday without football, but you aren't satisfied with the dose you received this weekend.

A great way to watch football when there aren't any on the telly is Youtube. They have a whole bunch of football clips from almost every Premier League season including interviews and great goals.

You can relive your favorite football moments just by simply searching after what you want to see.

click to get to Youtube.

I thought that I would share some of my own favorite videos:

The first one is the most Dramatic moments in modern football.

This one is the top ten goals of 2009, according to FIFA.

I hope you enjoyed them.

Tomorrow I'm off to the Famous Sports Café in Piccadilly Circus, never been there before.

Lookin forward to it.

Have a nice day=)

Sunday's FA cup action

Today I wanted to try something other then going to a pub, so I decided to visit a betting store, that shows the football match. I went to a Coral betting shop.

The game that I was watching today was Bolton Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspurs. At first it was quite a odd experience for me to sit amongst all the gamblers just watching the game. But it was quite good actually you got kind of a stadium like experience with people screaming and complaining on most of the action going on. You really felt the excitement going on even though I was pretty much a neutral supporter. It might have helped that the game was really intense and very exciting. I actually enjoyed myself so much that I decided to stay for the next game which was Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa.

And that was another nail biter for a game, that I enjoyed even more, I actually got quite in the the betting and wasted a tenner myself (I really thought Crystal Palace would hold on to their lead). This was a very fun experience that I enjoyed quite much, that's why I give it FOUR(!) out of five M's. (Did really not see that coming this morning)

Saturdays FA cup action

On Saturday I decided to visit a pub to very close my own home. I went to watch the FA-cup match between Manchester City vs Stoke City.

I was at the Liquor Inn in Devons road. The place was pretty small, and at the day of the visit very empty. They only had two TV-screens on opposite sides of the pub, and they were actually kinda small. So I did not enjoy my stay at the pub. It may have depended on that the pub was empty and I felt kinda weird sitting by myself watching football with 3 drunks (well they smelled like it anyways) at the bar-counter. Or it may have depended on the match, which wasn't much to cheer for, even though I loved that Manchester City didn't win the match.

The pub only gets one out of five M's.

The Barracuda Bar

On Wednesday I started my journey of visiting different pubs and places, to try and find out which one is the best to watch football.

I started off at the Barracuda Bar in Liverpool street, to watch the Arsenal - Liverpool game. The bar is located just five minutes from the Liverpool street underground station, so it is quite easy to find.

The bar had several TV-screens and showed 3 different games. They had one big screen whom showed Arsenal - Liverpool and around the bar they had Plasma screens that showed either Aston villa - Man United or Everton - Chelsea. This was very good, so you don't have to worry if they will show your teams game, because they show 3 different games.

The atmosphere of the pub was great, probably because of the cheap drinks =). Fans from different teams sat together and had a great chat, going down memory lane and just enjoyed the football.

I Rate the Barracuda at 3 M's of Five Possible.