What a day yesterday was. Amazing. My two favourite things: rugby world cup finals, and curry. Brilliant. The rugby was sensational, the curry possibly even better. Though as I ate it the rugby was long over so there was a strong ‘recency effect’ at play. As in: what’s the best thing you can do? The thing you’re doing now.

Only with the less affected benefit of hindsight can you assess more accurately and say that the rugby must be better because it only happens every 4 years and the curry can happen every night. And should do really.

The All Blacks were just amazing. Every one of ’em. The Aussies were good too, just not quite good enough. And although David Pocock, the Australian flanker, was everybody’s pick for ‘player of the tournament’, and with dirty deeds partner also quite extraordinaire, Michael Hooper, combined into an awesome ball-winning unit, in the second half Richie McCaw showed why he in fact wrote the book on the fine line between legality and brilliance at the breakdown. As for Dan Carter? What more can you say. Best player ever???? Wow, that’s a hard one to say, especially in rugby where different positions have such markedly different roles. But he’s up there with the Gods.

But away from the heavens, several other sporting teams came down to earth with big bumps. West Ham continued their almost ridiculous run of beating the best teams whilst losing to the others, yesterday at Watford. Somewhat at odds with that nice Mr Bilic saying how they were the ‘real deal’.

Chelsea are no-one’s real deal at the moment. And didn’t so much come back to earth because that happened in week 1, but dug themselves deeper into the mud and shit with yet another loss at home to Liverpool. Morinho blamed the ref!!!! Wow!! Hasn’t done that since… since the last time they played. But just to clear it up for the little Portugueser, yes, I do think Lucas should have gone off for a second yellow card after a very cynical tackle. No question really. But Diego Costa should have already been off for kicking Martin Skertl in the stomach. An act which Jose seemed to miss entirely.

Spurs play Villa tomorrow night in the ‘big one’. Though why its ‘big’, I haven’t worked out yet.

Happy Sunday, especially for us Kiwis.

A xxxx