Sevilla 4 - 0 Middlesbrough

I just finished watching the UEFA Cup Final on SopCast's Chinese sports channels.

The scoreline doesn't do any justice to the way Boro played for most of the game. They kept trying for an equalizer (when the score was 1-0) but when the Andalucian team scored their second goal against the run of play, Boro unravelled and it turned into carnage.

By the end, the English club were lucky to have let in only 4. Nevertheless, a wonderful performance by a team that almost consistently found itself near the relegation zone in the Premiership and overcame triple goal deficits in the previous two rounds of the UEFA Cup to make the final.

An unfortunate end to Steve McLaren's managerial career at the Riverside. Is this an omen of things to come as he moves onto bigger and better things with the national team?

Here Comes the Bedouin!

Last night I learnt that the TV Show, The Amazing Race, recently took place in Oman!

Season 9, Episode 8 (Torrent Link: http://www.mininova.org/get/286618):
The teams receive a clue instructing them to fly to Muscat, Oman and search for a giant incense burner. Despite scrambles for buses and planes, all teams are equalized when they find that the park with the burner doesn't open until 6 A.M. The teams then travel 135 miles to Sur, facing flooded roads along the way.

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News Reports:
From a Bedouin to Utter Boredom - an interesting article.
All Great Thinkers are from Oman - enjoy the quote at the bottom of the page.
The Amazing Race in Oman - an article from USA Today
11m viewers in US watch ‘race’ filmed in Oman - from the Times of Oman newspaper