Austria - rewriting history

Apparently Arnie, the Governer of California (!) claimed in his speech to the Republican Convention in New York this week that he remembered seeing Russion tanks in Austria, as a kid, and that Austria had been a socialist country back then - yeah right!

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Historians criticized Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he left a "socialist" country when he moved away in 1968, noting that Austria had conservative leaders during the entire time he lived there. Some also were doubtful about Schwarzenegger's remark that he saw Soviet tanks as a child, since he lived in an Austrian region occupied by British troops after World War II.

Truth the first casualty of war eh? And politics apparently, if that's what you can call the goings on in America - I thought I'd seen everything when Reagan became president, but now Arnie is presumably headed in the same direction, a few years down the line. Still at least Arnie is taller than Ronnie was, even if they share a similar brain size.

Ah yes, and then there is the little matter of a football match in Austria, which in the light of the goings on in Russia this week, seems somewhat meaningless.

Still, we can be confident of a similarly sophisticated tactical approach from Sven, to that deployed in Euro 2004, and I'm guessing a scrappy 2-1 win.

And apparently 52% of men list messing around in sheds as their top form of leisure activity.