Mission Statement: Chris Matthews’ objective is to be
corrupted by all the sights, sounds and smells of the Wellington
Sevens.
8:15pm – Twilight Saga
Dusk is always my favourite time of the night. It’s when
the strong fight on and the weak surrender both on and off the
field.
Take Kenya for example. Seemingly crusing into the Cup
quarterfinal’s tomorrow after beating crowd favs Australia, they
inexplicably dropped their final match to supposed dolly’s Canada
21-14. Stunned beyond belief, the Kenyans slumped to the ground as
the final whistle blew knowing they had blown their royal chance.
The upshot is that Canada, yes Canada, are a chance of topping Pool
D and avoiding a likely quarter-final against New Zealand, if, and
that’s a big IF, Australia can beat France at 9:34pm.
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6:30pm – The people have taken their seats
It’s only taken a little over five hours but I can
comfortably now say the Stadium is three-quarters-full, even though
most of them are more interested in slapping giant beach balls.
Which means of course eight or so thousand are partying in the
concourse or by the good old rave zone.
New Zealand meanwhile have just demolished Japan 54-0 and will
top Pool A if they can beat Samoa just before 10pm tonight. Who
they will play in the quarter-finals is anyone’s guess with Kenya,
France and Australia all still well in contention to come out of
Pool D.
5:15pm – 44 reasons your daughters should stay at home
On my travels to the front of Stadium, where it is worth
mentioning the rave zone is pumping dirty house beats to throngs of
kids who couldn’t care less about the on-field action, I came
across the most popular 44 young men this hack has ever seen.
Girls, and lots of them, were craving for their attention and I
guess it was sort of symbolic of the sexual
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