Although I’m not a huge football fan at all, I took an interest in last weekend’s football match seeing as quite a few of my friends are avid England supporters and I take infinite enjoyment in their disappointment (I’m obliged to dismiss all England successes in Football/ Rugby being a Welsh Rugby Fan, born and bred)  and especially as their rivals were Norway, a relatively undeveloped footballing nation as far as I know but more importantly our host country for the 5 weeks this summer. Unfortunately Norway lost 0 – 1 but that wasn’t the end of Norway’s disappointment for the weekend.

MUCH more importantly Saturday night saw the meeting of European countries (and other slightly more undefined nations: Azerbaijan – case and point) in the cultural and musical event of the year. Now I wouldn’t say I was a huge fan of Eurovision, but this year I was in the perfect mindset for some Euro pop / trash and was not disappointed. Read more »