Crazy day!

Let me tell you about the weekend just passed first of all.Saturday was a day filled of hype,emotion,fun and damn right out the ordinary.This is the reason why!There was a very important football game being played here in Glasgow between my home nation Scotland and current world champions Italy at hampden park.We needed a win to qualify for euro 2008 and Italy needed a draw.We didn't get the result we so craved but what a rollercoaster of a journey!I have never experienced so much hype for a game in all my 30 something years....eeerrm!!! than this game.It was incredible!!From young kids to old grannies everyone wanted a piece of the action and were decked out in Scotland gear from scarves to flags.My day started by having to work then at 4 scooted off down to the local to meet my girlfriend and a crowd of friends to watch the game starting at 5.The weather was terrible pouring of rain and cold and when you mix that with hundreds of bodies in a warm pub you get the kind of atmoshere reserved for a nightclub,i.e hot sweaty and condensation running down the windows and walls.But hey we didn't care cause we were all here to hopefully witness a piece of history and forget about the bloke that fainted with the heat.Pick him up and stick another beer down him he'll be fine!Ok the game ebbed and flowed and one minute we were there next we knew our fate was sealed.That was that and we now need to look at qualifying for the world cup in 2010.So the game was finished and people had mixed emotions but there was another event planned in the pub.Yes it was.......wait for it......A David Bowie tribute band called 'Tigers On Vaseline' Wow the day was crazy enough but this was the icing on the cake!They were brilliant belting out all the hits and soon people forgot(with the amount of alcohol i must say)about the events that unfolded earlier in the day.Not sure i've experienced a day like that for a long while where you can have such a mixed up crazy day filled with laughter,pain and damn good fun.
Back to this post and this goes to all my fellow countrymen who marched through the pissin rain to see this game.Also it goes without saying it's a Disco Classic!

Don Ray-Standing In The Rain