![]() Probably in the whole of the rest of Greece, there wasn’t another TV showing the game. I didn’t care, because they had the game on the big screen above the bar. I found an Irish pub in Monastiraki where the beers cost three times as much as anywhere else in Greece. I bought a ticket and caught a ferry across the wind-swept green Saronic gulf to Athens. I woke before dawn and made my way down to the harbour. ![]() ![]() Do you know anything about VPNs? Do you know why they stop working? Do you know how to start them again? Let me tell you how to start them again – you just have to wait for the rugby match to be over, then they pick right up from where they were as though nothing had ever happened.įor the semi-final last week, I was prepared to control my own destiny. Five minutes before the game, my VPN stopped working. On the morning of the quarter-final, I had moved to a different island with stronger WiFi. Did I sit watching a frozen screen for ninety minutes in the hope it might somehow get better, swearing and yelling in several languages? Yes. Every ten minutes the frozen screen would unfreeze for three seconds – just long enough to see absolutely nothing except the score updating. Do you know what it doesn’t have? It doesn’t – I discovered as I sat down in front of my iPad with my VPN and my streaming channel – have a WiFi signal strong enough to stream a rugby match. Milos has cheap good wine and a restaurant where you bury your fish in the warm beach sand and let the volcanic heat slow-cook it for you. ![]() I had some sympathy with this – I can never find my own remote - but then again I’m not one of the local sponsors of the Rugby World Cup, and one of the only sources of access to the game in an airport full of miserable men who have messed up their travel dates and therefore their lives.īy the next game I was on the beautiful Cycladic island of Milos, chalky white cliffs and powdery sand and water as clear as a glass of ouzo before you add the ice. He shrugged and said they couldn’t find the remote control. I seized the manager by the lapels and asked that very question. ![]()
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