It is difficult to watch the World Cup in Australia
Unfortunately since the World Cup is in South Africa, and the time difference to Australia basically stinks, we get all of the games at midnight and 4am. Doesn’t make for a very good work day after having an all nighter to watch the World Cup!
Also, as with any sporting event, when Australia is in it, coverage comes from nowhere and we get to watch the events. Take Wimbledon. Foxtel seems to have the rights this year, so for the normal Austarlian who doens’t have Foxtel we haven’t seen one second of Wimbledon but miraculously on Monday night, they show Wimbledon. Why? Because Hewitt is playing.
Same with the World Cup – we were able to watch the Australian matches over and over again. When England played Slovenia, they showed it once, at 4am and not again.
However the bonus of living in Australia is that you get every second of coverage of the Australian Open (even if they basically just show Australians playing), all the coverage of each and every Melbourne AFL team game, and all the cricket you could want in a lifetime!
For all those World Cup lovers, you’re not alone when up at 4am watching the games!
Tags: AFL, Foxtel, living in Australia, South Africa, sport in Australia, World Cup
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I was in Sydney for 5 months and I got to see the World Cup at Darling Harbour
I found none of the important games (for me) were on at 4:30am though. Except for the final so the time difference wasn’t too bad. It was funny though because it was a Monday morning and the final went into second half overtime… it’s almost time for work to start and everyone was still watching the game.