jonnybaker

chelsea vs barcelona and onedotzero free night - looks like a good week ahead

am delighted to say i have got tickets for chelsea vs barcelona on weds night. can't wait... sadly i only got two tickets so harry has to stay behind (sorry harry!). the game last year was fantastic - i love the big european games...

if you are in london this week and want a good free event, the V and A museum have a late night event transvision on friday with onedotzero and VJs in galleries - it really looks like it should be good. it's my birthday the next day so a few of us are going along and then on to abbaye which is about 10 minutes walk away for belgian ales afterwards. if you are around see you there. the blurb on the web site says

for this one-time event, onedotzero has invited over 20 key creatives from diverse fields, representing the full breadth of moving image programming that onedotzero explores.

across motion graphics, music videos, short films, interaction design, live audio–visual performances, music, and architecture, featured artists will include airside, hi-res!, trevor jackson, allofus, the light surgeons, d-fuse, intro, jason bruges, neutral, peepshow, phillip o' dwyer, pre-loaded, sennep, tank.tv, universal everything, usman haques, and united visual artists.

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victory at the bridge

my brother gave me an early birthday present of taking me to see chelsea v liverpool today which chelsea won 2-0 - convincingly in the end. after a good start liverpool just seemed to run out of ideas. the blues are still 15 points clear at the top of the premiership...

i've added a few pictures i took to flickr , but i love this one of my brother looking slightly pyscho after chelsea's first goal!

20 points!

i don't blog about football much because some people aren't into it and it's too tempting to gloat when you win, but occasionally you just have to...

i remember last year blogging when arsenal lost to bolton and chelsea went 10 points clear. that was the day i was finally convinced chelsea would go on to win the premiership which of course they did. well yesterday chelsea beat arsenal 2-0 in a good contest, but ultimately one in which chelsea looked the better side in virtually every department. it seems astonishing that chelsea are now 20 points clear of arsenal and it's not even christmas! seems like man united and liverpool are the only two sides who have any chance of stopping chelsea making it two titles in a row.

the champions league has put chelsea against barcelona again. i hope to get tickets for the home leg in feb. i love the big european games - some of the most exciting i've ever been to...

come on the blues!

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fun weekend...

friday night i went to see a production of on the waterfront at wimbledon studio theatre put on by synergy theatre (review here). synergy was set up by my wonderful youngest sister esther who works in prisons and with ex offenders. i have seen various productions in prisons and theatres over the last few years. every time it is a very moving experience. the sense of pride and dignity the lads have frm pulling off a play is amazing. in the programme notes one of the prisoners had written about esther that she has an amazing ability to see the worth and goodness in every person - i thought that beautiufully sums up esther - she is amazing. my older brother dave and family also came and stayed with us friday night which was fun...

i got a result saturday afternoon of a free visit to see chelsea vs newcastle - it was via a business contact of my younger brother steve. the company has two corporate seats and no one was using them so when they were offered to steve he said he thought i could use them... i took harry. it was the first time i've sat in a padded seat at a football match! chelsea won 3-0 - without owen and shearer newcastle really didn't have much threat...

sat evening i went to see the latest harry potter film - having read the books and seen the first three i thought i would keep it going. i wasn't expecting much but was pleasantly surprised and thought it was brilliantly done and had a great evening. ron was excellent. the film was pretty magical all round.

today joel was doing a 10k run in brighton with my brother steve. it was a beautiful day - sun coming through the fog over frosty fields as we drove down the A23. the fog cleared by the time we got to brighton. the run was along the front - the sea was still, the sun spakling on the water and joel and steve clocked 46mins which was pretty good. joel was doing it as a sponsored thing to raise money for his school trip to new york next feb.

jen has been speaking at the youthwork conference in eastbourne and has just got back. i think we'll watch motor cycle diaries on dvd tonight which has been on order from sofacinema, the dvd club we belong to, for about 3 months and has finally arrived (we are becoming increasingly disillusioned with them and may try another company as any interesting films on your list never seem to get sent). i almost feel like i've been on holiday it's been such a good weekend...

champions!!!!!!

chelsea!

champions for the first time in 50 years.... wahoooo!

my lucky day...

a friend who had a chelsea ticket for tonight's match had flu and rang me at lunch time offering me the ticket so completely out of the blue i found myself at chelsea v bayern munich which chelsea won 4-2!

imaginative easter card

was fortunate enough to have got tickest for chelsea v barcelona on tues with joel and harry... what a game! chelsea through to the quarter finals.

and ben bell continues to produce some of the most imaginative church publiicity - see his wonderful easter flier

surreal cup final viewing...

i searched long and hard to find if there was anywhere in denver i could get to see the cup final between chelsea and liverpool being televised. i eventually stumbled across an irish pub that was showing the england ireland rugby game in one half of the pub and the football in the other. due to the time difference the action started at 8am.  it was quite surreal to be surrounded by a crowd who emerged from somewhere sporting either liverpool or chelsea shirts.

i was beginning to wonder if i should have stayed in bed when liverpool scored after 43 seconds. but chelsea then dominated the game and finally managed to score after 80 minutes.  two more in extra time and a final score 3-2 to chelsea - up the blues!!!

into the final

man united 1 chelsea 2 - chelsea are in the carling cup final on feb 27 against liverpool! even though i was in a london pub there were more man united than chelsea fans - weird...

i'm going to be in denver that day - anyone know of any bars that might show the game?....

10 points!

chelsea are 10 points clear at the top of the premiership - unbelievable! a fantastic 2-0 win combined with arsenal losing to bolton has sent chelsea clear. surely they won't slip up now?... we (me, h and j) went to chelsea on weds to see them draw 0-0 with man united - in this spectacular season we have been to two games and seen two 0-0 draws! i took this photo of a chelsea fan walking to the bridge...

c'mon!

chelsea go top :-)