I went over to my friend Mark's home this past weekend to watch Leeds play Newcastle. Both of these Premier League soccer teams are Mark's favorites, but he was rooting for Leeds this time, since they are currently in 18th place and seriously in danger of being relegated back to the Champion's League (the AAA of the British soccer world). Leeds was down 2-0 for most of the game, but came back to tie it at the end, leaving them with a fighting chance to avoid relegation. Mark, as I have mentioned before on this blog, has many friends in Leeds and has visited there a number of times. He is hoping to go back there for a visit this coming August, when there might be a slight chance it won't be cold and rainy. The building just to the left of Mark in the background of the photograph above is the Old Peacock, a pub Mark has visited when in Leeds, although not on game day, when he tells me that chaos reins there. A pub called the Old Peacock, by the way, has been at that site since 1826, but in the 1960s, the building was replaced with a modern structure, and so "old" needs to be qualified with an asterisk. No matter - an English pub is still an English pub, and these days this one might even have bathrooms. And although it is England, even heat.
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