roopy wrote:
Campese has lived his entire life in Quenbeyan.
Admittedly, I don't have a lot of experience with cold weather, but watching a game in Quenbeyan is the coldest I've ever been in my life. Canberra win games at home as winter sets in just because other teams can't cope with the arctic conditions.
If your summer is colder than a Quenbeyan winter, get the hell out of there, people shouldn't live like that.
It's mainly the wind-chill factor over here, and as His Bobness says the hard cold pitches, and the weather has just started to turn (chaos across the UK as the first snow arrives).
I was talking to Kelly & Blair yesterday and they were nithered (a 'ull expression for effing freezing), warming up for training takes them almost an hour (slight exaggeration) but they were very jovial and looking forward to Portugal next week (more like wishing).
Hopefully Campese will feel at home when he turns up for training this morning; I've got the car engine going to 'de-ice' and warm it up before I set off for work in Leeds, it was -6 last night (I live 18 miles outside of Hull).
The thing is, the cold penetrates and does disrupt training over here even for the 'weathered' home-grown players; its no fun training in the cold, and even less fun playing on below the surface frost-laid pitches, my arthritis is testament to that (well, according to my doctor).