Postman Podcast with Imac in da house!

Hello again.

Have a look at this disturbing picture

As the picture suggests, Ernest was ill. Gary, AWOL.

So it was just Iain and myself. The dreamteam, you could say (cough)

So I took the oppourtunity to help Iain almost miss his flight by tying him down for a podcast.

Yes, Iain, live and in conversation. Like two old friends who have never really met before, yakking away about their hopes and fears for this EPL season. There’s a show in that somewhere.

Enjoy here for now.

We’ll try and get the blog doctor to put the streaming option back up very soon.

Cheers

Jonrob,

the podhost

Iain, with Arsenal supporters in Singapore…

You’ve seen his reports in The New Paper on Sunday, so here are more photos from last Saturday, when Your English Kaki Iain Macintosh watched the Arsenal-West Brom match with the official Arsenal supporters fan club here at Elizabeth Pub, The Elizabeth Hotel.

TNP Pictures by Kelvin Chng.

A bridge too far – Iain’s version

The Austrian woman stared at me with a mixture of disbelief and pity. After a weekend of Spanish glory was matched with roasting hot Spanish weather, Monday morning was as bleak and miserable as the mood of any German. A cold wind whipped down the canal like a wet towel in a locker room and the skies were black and full of rain.

Not exactly the perfect conditions for my voyage of penance.

At 7am, you’d be surprised just how busy Vienna actually is. The streets teemed with commuters, some of whom were in danger of walking straight into the water when I began to tear off my clothes in front of everyone. The discovery that the bloomers were a lot longer than I’d imagined was a bonus, but the material was so thin and flimsy that the morning wind kept touching me where it had no right to be poking around. I only had to walk 30 meters, but it felt like 1,500, especially as I became aware that cars were slowing down to take a closer look.

I won’t lie to you, I felt like a piece of meat.

Not that any of this seemed to bother Gary. He was delighted with this turn of events, scampering along the bridge taking pictures and laughing openly at me. I’d love to say that it could all have been so different, but Germany were so poor, that it’s not really be true. Spain fully deserved their victory, and I fully deserved my shame.

So ends the fable of the Englishman who thought that it was a good idea to support Germany. I guess some things just aren’t meant to be.

Iain Macintosh – Your Euro Kaki

Iain Macintosh – Your English Kaki based in London – covers the English Premier League for The New Paper. He loves to pop up now and then and banter with Postman readers here, some of whom may actually have dreams of taking him on in a wrestling match (read: Chelsea fans). Start wishing him well here by clicking on “comments” above and he may just bite the bait here from time to time. And of course, now that Germany have won, poor Iain has to do his forfeit for Gary and run across a Vienna bridge in just a pair of boxers. Now that’s what we calls Euro balls on the Run! (Look for his pictures in The New Paper on 1 Jul!)

LATEST PICTURES FROM IAIN!

Iain was caught in a fierce thunderstorm (that is to say the least) while covering the Germany-Turkey game in a Vienna Fanzone. Poor Iain didn’t know what hit him and, worse still, didn’t know what the final score of the game was.

Double trouble, ready to rumble

Our Euro Kaki, Iain Macintosh, will join TNP’s Euro Man on the Run Gary Lim from the semi-finals onwards.

Together with our Coach on the Run Tohari Paijan, they will bring you the latest thrills and spills from Austria and Switzerland, so catch their latest reports in the noon editions of The New Paper, and personal insights at tnppostman.com.