Can your love stand the test of football?
Feb 03, 2006
DAN will never forget the 2000 European Championship in the Netherlands. His girlfriend won a Carlsberg trip to watch the finals in Amsterdam and he paraded his PGB tanks to resist it but all in vain. Dan then threatened to let himself loose onto Kampala’s female population in her absence probably
HILARY BAINEMIGISHA
DAN will never forget the 2000 European Championship in the Netherlands. His girlfriend won a Carlsberg trip to watch the finals in Amsterdam and he paraded his PGB tanks to resist it but all in vain. Dan then threatened to let himself loose onto Kampala’s female population in her absence probably tempting her to do the same in Amsterdam.
That is how soccer can make or break your love life. And that is why you need these tablets to survive 2006, the soccer year. The MTN Africa Cup of Nations is in its juicy stages and the World Cup is around the corner.
Before you brag about using the football excuse to play away matches, remember that your partner may as well be too happy to take the chance.
Football is a festive season, you do not want to break a heart when others are celebrating. Use compromise for example, if you prefer washing down your football with crowd noise at bars, bibanda or with neighbours, but your partner is Bugingo’s relative, you do not have to risk slaps going by force to look for soccer in bars when UBS is screening it. Just choose a boring match and pretend to sleep throughout the first half as evidence to your spouse that minus crowds, it is football which would watch you.
If you doubt his motives, join in. By the end of the Africa Cup of Nations, you will have picked enough interest to see you through the world cup. But you must master certain etiquette.
Don’t support a different team. If you do, keep it secret.
Celebrate goals with him and try to avoid guys who scoop up anybody to jump up with after a goal is scored.
Don’t jeer him when ‘his’ team loses. Grieve with him if possible and blame the referee or supporters –– it is acceptable in football.
Don’t be too sympathetic with injured players because your man may take it personally
Don’t comment on how well-built some guys, either on the screen or the viewers, are especially if your man has a pregnant figure.
Don’t pair with ‘his friends’. Like picking out one guy to keep asking all those stupid questions about players like ‘does that man have a wife?’
Try not to remember names of specific players who excited you, or the friends you were seated with. Don’t exchange phones or e-mails.
I am not old-fashioned. I just believe love should take priority even if you have to sacrifice. Don’t count losses when others are celebrating. Join the fray. You will get impressed by your own survival instincts. Call me if this dose fails to work.
DAN will never forget the 2000 European Championship in the Netherlands. His girlfriend won a Carlsberg trip to watch the finals in Amsterdam and he paraded his PGB tanks to resist it but all in vain. Dan then threatened to let himself loose onto Kampala’s female population in her absence probably tempting her to do the same in Amsterdam.
That is how soccer can make or break your love life. And that is why you need these tablets to survive 2006, the soccer year. The MTN Africa Cup of Nations is in its juicy stages and the World Cup is around the corner.
Before you brag about using the football excuse to play away matches, remember that your partner may as well be too happy to take the chance.
Football is a festive season, you do not want to break a heart when others are celebrating. Use compromise for example, if you prefer washing down your football with crowd noise at bars, bibanda or with neighbours, but your partner is Bugingo’s relative, you do not have to risk slaps going by force to look for soccer in bars when UBS is screening it. Just choose a boring match and pretend to sleep throughout the first half as evidence to your spouse that minus crowds, it is football which would watch you.
If you doubt his motives, join in. By the end of the Africa Cup of Nations, you will have picked enough interest to see you through the world cup. But you must master certain etiquette.
I am not old-fashioned. I just believe love should take priority even if you have to sacrifice. Don’t count losses when others are celebrating. Join the fray. You will get impressed by your own survival instincts. Call me if this dose fails to work.