GAMEDAY!!! (Kind of)

Saturday Jan 13^th

For today I had planned on going to Cardiff City FC v Sunderland football match and then the Cardiff Blues v Toulouse rugby match. For the first fame both are playing in the English Championship League, which is the second-tier league. Cardiff City is currently in third place and Sunderland is in last place, so Cardiff City could be in the Premier league next season if they keep playing well and Sunderland would be relegated to the third-tier of English football. The game started off rather slow, Cardiff had a few chances in the first half to score but could not capitalize, but they were in control for most of the half. The second half on the other hand was very exciting, Cardiff started strong and had control of the ball without really giving up too much ground to Sunderland. Cardiff scored their first goal in the 46^th minute on a header set up by a pass from a corner kick. Then 3 minutes later a Sunderland player is shown a red card, I couldn’t see the play clearly, so I have no idea what he did, but the Sunderland fans and players were clearly upset by the call. In the 55^th minute Cardiff City scored its second goal set up by a fast break. In the 80^th minute Cardiff set up a free kick and had it blocked by the wall, but we got the deflection and scored the third goal. At this point we figured the excitement of the game would be done and we’d seen all that would happen. But Sunderland wasn’t done they kept pressing but still couldn’t find the back of the net. In the 4^th minute of stoppage time we got another goal, one of the players that Cardiff had subbed in earlier scored and put Cardiff up 4-0 and really finish the game.

The group going to the rugby match was a little larger, after the soccer match all of us met at the hostel and walked to the rugby stadium which is right across the river from our hostel. We got there an hour early but no one was there which we thought was odd. Someone decided to look at their ticket and discovered that the game was on the next night….