Ordinary Gweilo
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Category: Sports
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I was walking through a shopping mall on Sunday afternoon and the big screen was showing football. Hong Kong is back back back. Inter Miami CF are in town. The game is a sell-out. The government is delighted, and have grand plans to show Lionel Messi around the city. Chief Executive Lee Ka-chiu will be…
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So the English Premier League is back on Now TV. It seems to be the pattern now for it to alternate between PCCW’s Now TV and Wharf Group’s Cable TV every three years. Of course they charge you extra for the EPL. You might think that a Now Sports Megapack would cover everything, but rather…
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Incredibly stupid story from the SCMP. Now TV have purchased the rights to the Rugby World Cup and will be charging viewers between nothing and HK$388 to watch the tournament. Well, what did anyone expect? Fan fury as PCCW cashes in on rugby cup Broadcaster tells home viewers and publicans they will have to pay…
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Another year goes by, and we still have the same old problem. TVB are apparently unable to provide an English language commentary for the Rugby Sevens on Jade HD. You can choose TVB Pearl, but with a fuzzy picture, or HD with no English. What really puzzles me about this is that the picture quality…
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I have no interest in the Winter Olympics, but this headline from the BBC caught my attention: Britain’s Amy Williams sets a new track record to lead the women’s skeleton after the first of four runs at the Whistler Sliding Centre. They have an event called skeleton? There’s a venue called the “Sliding Centre”?
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When England won the Ashes 4 years ago it seemed like an amazing achievement after so many years of disappointment (OK then, humiliation), but doing it for the second time doesn’t seem quite so exciting. Maybe it’s because it has seemed like a contest between the teams ranked 4th and 5th in the world (which…
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Elmer over at Living in Hong Kong has 7 Observations from Hong Kong TV Olympic Coverage, and I have to say that I agree with most of what he says. (1) I have to admit that I haven’t been paying very close attention, but I think he’s right that the local Chinese channels of TVB…
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I think the SCMP only employ Lau Nai-keung to annoy people (or maybe he pays them to publish the nonsense he writes). Today he gives us the theory that the Western media are just jealous of China (Fakes offend Chinese as much as anyone – subscription required): After the grand opening of the Beijing Olympics,…
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I don't have any problem with the national hysteria that surrounds the Beijing Olympics, but isn't the South China Morning Post meant to be a serious newspaper? So what's this headline all about, then? As if this hysterical front page wasn't bad enough, the story continued inside, occupying the whole of pages two and three.…
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My favourite moment from the typically shabby TVB Pearl coverage of the Olympics came earlier tonight when Andrew Sams thought that Nadal had won the Olympic Gold Medal when he won the tie-break at the end of the 2nd set. Strangely, Nadal didn't look too excited, simply going back to his seat ready for the…
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