Category: Sports

I think I’m going to try and pass by after lunch tomorrow and take some pictures. I haven’t taken sport shots before and a rugby match seems like a good way to start:

The Kuwait Scorpions Rugby Club (formally the Nomads) start their 2010/2011 season this Friday (1st Oct) with a home match against Muscat RFC. Pre-season training has been well attended and with the recent league reconstruction, the Scorpions are looking to have a successful season both home and away.

Come and support your local team against the might of Muscat!!

Kick Off is at 3pm at the Ahmadi ‘Sandpit’

For directions and further details of KSRFC, please go to www.q8scorpions.com

Thanks Akbar

Since when does Kuwait have a cricket team? It’s kinda like when I first found out we had a baseball stadium. [Link]

Update: Here a more pictures of the baseball stadiums. [Link]

Remember the goal keeper I posted a video about 2 weeks back that caught a penalty kick and started celebrating not noticing the ball continue to roll into the goal? Well he screwed up again but this time he ended up running off the pitch topless obviously very upset. [YouTube]

Thanks Rob

If you’ve missed the previous 3gal self defense videos click here and here. [YouTube]

This really doesn’t make much sense to me. [Link]

Thanks instant cravings

That’s gotta suck. [YouTube]

This Kuwaiti jujutsu guy is amazing to watch, he’s got a new video up where he once again shows you how you could use your 3gal for self defense. [YouTube]

How to protect yourself in case you get attacked by a glass of water. I like the way he used the 3gal to lock the guys arm. [YouTube]

Very entertaining to watch. Personally I can’t keep a yoyo going if my life depended on it. [YouTube]

This is pretty insane. [Link]

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Check out the energy drink commercial above then watch the video below which is a kind of making of.

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Ok so he got the Uruguay vs Germany game wrong but even psychic goats make mistakes (blame it on the humidity). For the final game he’s predicting Spain will win over Netherlands. [YouTube]

Our local psychic goat here in Kuwait has predicted Uruguay to win over Germany at the World Cup. [YouTube]

Paul the octopus has predicted Spain will win the match against Germany. [YouTube]

Thanks John

A reader sent me this article that appeared in The Guardian a few days ago about the state of Football in Kuwait and the UAE. The article talks about Kuwait’s football achievements in the 80s and the demise of it today.

While middle-aged Kuwaiti men are genuinely proud of the football team their country produced in the 1980s – champions of Asia in 1980, World Cup qualifiers in 1982 and Gulf Cup winners in 1982 and 1986 – the same cannot be said of the current crop of players. Dubbed the “gel team”, these shebab (young men) have been branded prima donnas by the older generation, more concerned with applying gel to their intricately styled coiffures and handing out their phone numbers to doe-eyed female admirers than with training and winning.

The article starts off with the question, “Is it because family riches spoil potential players that these countries’ sporting glories lie in the past?”. Personally I have no idea why football in Kuwait today is not as good as it was in the 80’s and early 90’s, but maybe someone else can answer that question. [Article]

Thanks Pureorama