Different, Weird, And Chevrony Awful

By Richard Whittall A More Splendid Life

A More Splendid Life goes to a kit launch
It was at the Queen and Beaver pub last night. I don’t normally go to these sorts of to-do’s, but under present circumstances I thought it would be neat to see a hefty chunk of Canadian soccer mashed into a pub with an open bar. The Umbro Canada kit launch itself was perfunctory—the real critical work was being done on the comments section of this post—and I have to say I was largely indifferent to the designs. It’s odd how soccer people, even the most intelligent ones, seem to put so much importance on a soccer shirt. Ours was awful up until yesterday; now it’s different and weird and chevrony, which means it will get noticed in the cold, dark Eastern European climes where we will undoubtedly play friendlies against Estonia to prepare for CONCACAF qualification in Jamaica.

Anyway, the evening started with me standing around awkwardly, saying awkward hellos to one or two people, awkwardly shuffling to the open bar, realizing I hadn’t had anything to eat for dinner, drinking anyway, awkwardly forcing myself to say to the soccer people I know from TV that “I’m that Twitter guy. Yeah. Yeah that guy,” then proceeding to chew their ears off whilst awkwardly splashing my Creemore every which way.