fairplay

well well, the combination of a proper cold and a hangover, not the best of combinations. anyway it's friday and work was alright. there seems to be a kind of fairplay agreement in terms of workload here. what i mean is that everyone gives 100% during the week, tries get everything done and done smoothly. then on friday, it is a much more relaxed atmosphere, which i truly appreciated today.
Even though this isn't the case everyday it still seems to be the sensible thing to do. of course i believe that similar agreements agree everywhere, it's just that it seems ever so present to me in britain. after all i think it is safe to say the british are people which value fairplay more than many others. I'll give you an example I witnessed recently, in the domain in which you'd rather and more often find fairplay: sports.
It was, as i recall, a first round match between djokovic and... well, some other guy. Me not knowing the name of that fella kind of sums the situation up, it was a rising star against a complete underdog. As far as I recall it was a pretty easy win for the former, but what really struck me once again was the crowd and more specifically it's reaction.
In the beginning, it was clearly favoring djokovic, and who where they to blame to support a player showing some great tennis. He won the first set easily and went up 2:0 early into set two. there the crowd realised "wait, this guy (the underdog) is really giving his best, we probably cheer him on a bit, we want to see a good match." at least this is what i thought them to think. anyway, what they did was shift their symphaty. what i'm trying to say is, i like their attitude over here, I hope I kind of could make my point.

any questions, leave a comment, I am available for interviews from just 2 pints of guinness hourly rate.

slainté

fairplay steams ahead