Everyone on facebook seems to be doing "25 Things About Me" notes which seem a lot like eating sopaipillas, bland, dirty and self-indulgent but you can't help but do it. So I'll start off with "2 Things About Me". See if you can hold your attention through this.

1) I don't really have many ambitions in my life

2) The few that I do are mostly related to football (soccer, futbol, calcio, 'футбол')

So some of these petty, petty ambitions have been realised, I've been to the Maracana and I've seen Blackburn win something (Full Members Cup, 1987, vintage year), some are realisable like going to a World Cup and some are whole figments of fantasy. But it's always nice when one comes along unexpectantly and glasses you over the head like a drunken West Ham fan.

And so, last Sunday, I happened to find myself watching a superclasico between Boca Juniors and River Plate. This is pretty much the most intense derby in football and although the game was labelled a friendly it was clearly no such thing.

About 5 years ago I went to watch Boca play San Lorenzo at the Bombonera where I witnessed amongst other things, two gringos getting mugged, a handgun smuggled into the stadium, a whole stadium shaking as every single person jumped up and down singing how much they hated the English and fans throwing coins, lighters, mobiles, bottles, kitchen sinks and their own grandmothers at the San Lorenzo players.

So there was no chance we were standing with the Boca fans, unfortunatley that meant we had to go with the River fans. So we traded a free and casual attitude to violence for a brand of snobbish superiority. River like to call themselves los millionarios and represent the loaded hoity-toity neauvou riche Chelsea to Boca's despisable cockney "I'm ganna break your fackin' spine" Chelsea.

The atmosphere was tremendous, people arrived at the stadium four hours before the game to get prime spots, the noise was intense, there was a firework display, a samba band, showers of confetti and even what could only be called a flag-off. There were fans who didn't even bother watching the game, who just jumped up and down trying to get the rest of the stand to sing.

And obviously the game turned out to be a big pile of dog shit. Boca won 2-0, River had a player sent off, the ref was crap and some how none of this was even remotely interesting.

Anway to finish up here are "Probably Less than 25 Observations about Argentina"

1. There's really not a lot to do in Mendoza.
2. Every single dish contains some form of dead cow or pig. Vegetarianism an alien concept.
3. Mullets are even more popular here than in Chile.
4. They speak weird.
5. Compare these two links...
Miss Argentina- http://www.jujuy.com/fotos/alejandra-bernal.jpg
Miss Chile- http://www.explore-atacama.com/fotos/hi/arqueologia-2.jpg

That's it chau pescaos!