Friday, August 15, 2003
Football, Football, Heart Surgery, Brain Damage.
Chelsea's first competitive game of the season with their all new, expensively assembled team resulted in an excellent away win against Slovakian minnows (as John Motson would say) MSK Zilina in the European Championship. All the new players looked good, especially Damien Duff and Glen Johnson. [BBC] Exciting new striker, Adrian Mutu should be ready for Sunday's match against Liverpool. I reckon we should win 3-1 with Mutu scoring on his debut.
By way of contrast, our Thursday night 5-a-side soccer could only manage a turnout of 4 players tonight - an all time low. Instead of playing I went home and watched a programme (Intensive Scares (terrible name!)) about the risks of brain damage during heart surgery - 1 in 3 chance apparently. When the surgeons clamp your arteries during the procedure, all sorts of gunk on the walls of the arteries is disturbed and makes it's way to your brain and clogs it up (technical explanation). As if the risks involved weren't scary enough. The good news is that pioneering surgeons have a machine that will check for a good place to clamp, the bad news is that hardly anyone knows how to use the machines yet. Hey-ho!
Chelsea's first competitive game of the season with their all new, expensively assembled team resulted in an excellent away win against Slovakian minnows (as John Motson would say) MSK Zilina in the European Championship. All the new players looked good, especially Damien Duff and Glen Johnson. [BBC] Exciting new striker, Adrian Mutu should be ready for Sunday's match against Liverpool. I reckon we should win 3-1 with Mutu scoring on his debut.
By way of contrast, our Thursday night 5-a-side soccer could only manage a turnout of 4 players tonight - an all time low. Instead of playing I went home and watched a programme (Intensive Scares (terrible name!)) about the risks of brain damage during heart surgery - 1 in 3 chance apparently. When the surgeons clamp your arteries during the procedure, all sorts of gunk on the walls of the arteries is disturbed and makes it's way to your brain and clogs it up (technical explanation). As if the risks involved weren't scary enough. The good news is that pioneering surgeons have a machine that will check for a good place to clamp, the bad news is that hardly anyone knows how to use the machines yet. Hey-ho!
