Idiots Write About Sports

Attention, SoCal-based readers of the Idiot Sports Weblog: is there anywhere in the greater Los Angeles area — a sports bar, a pub, the British consulate — that offers public broadcasts of the English Premier League? Or, more specifically, one that will be showing Sunday’s sure-to-be-epic confrontation between Arsenal and God’s Own Eleven, otherwise known as Chelsea? Because I’ll be ding-danged if I’m going to violate my long-standing policy of a month-and-a-half of subsidizing Comcast ‘s incompetent service.

But just in case I do — just in case the prospect of watching Chelsea move eight points clear of Arsenal at the top of the Premiership proves too tempting to resist — loyal SoCal readers who are willing to show up at my doorstep at 8:30 in the a.m. are cordially invited to join me, just so I don’t feel like a total doofus for paying $20 for something that only I, and maybe one of my cats, will wind up watching.

And so long as we’re making shameless pleas, maybe someone out there can buy my bookcases! Interested parties, be they interested in the soccer or the bookcases, should inquire within.

[Update: Slept through my alarm so visiting Ye Olde King’s Head, as Rob suggested in the comments section, proved not to be a feasible option. By the time I staggered into the living room, Chelsea and Aresnal were already knotted up 1-1. I momentarily considered ordering the remainder of the game on pay-per-view, but Comcast recently updated its programming menu, making the task of finding and ordering programming even more difficult. (Am I order the Chelsea game? Or Bikini Fest ‘04?)

And so I’m missing what sounds like a crackling match. “This is turning into a great game!” exclaim’s Soccernet.com’s GameCast commentary. “The hype is being lived up to!”

You’re killing me, SoccerNet.]

You might try Ye Olde King's Head in Santa Monica.

Ironically, I ate dinner there just last week and didn't even think to ask my server about football-viewing options.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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