Sometimes we overlook the important stuff

Last night, I was rushing my end of term report. I left it late because it was like, 20 over pages of pure fluff. So I was still awake at 2 am when the England vs Germany match kicked off on live telecast. So I thought, "yeah, why not catch the first half of it before hitting the sack?"

So, I was at rapt attention when the German and English players sang their rousing national anthemns. By the way, I love listening to national anthemns from all countries. Laos has a nice, melodic one which can be quite poignant at times. And I always thought our Majulah Singapore isn't too shabby either.

More than 90,000 fans were there at the new spanking Wembley Stadium (in London) including the new British PM who took time out to watch the games. Lots of VIPs were craning their necks in the VIP box to oggle at the players. Everyone was jumping and down in excitement for the game to start. Given the traditional animosity between the two nations, I was also psyched up to see the match get started.

So, everything seemed to be in place:

(a) 90,000 excited fans in a spanking, beautiful stadium
(b) All well-paid, star English and German players were standing in the field ready to play including David Beckham himself
(c) VIPs were all happily seated including the British PM
(d) The national anthemns had been sung perfectly

But it turned out there was SOMETHING MISSING before the match could get started. Can you make a guess as to what was missing?









They forgot to bring a FOOTBALL.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

So everyone, English and German, players and referee, was standing in the field like dumbasses looking at each other and asking, "Uh . . . where is the ball ar?"

It is the funniest thing I have seen for a long, long time. All the money and efforts spent in preparing the international friendly and they forgot to bring the most important thing: the ball.