It's all over

Oh no we're out of the world cup. As a football agnostic I can't say I'm too bothered but have reined in my usual level of anti-kickball vitriol as I'm sure there are some people to whom this really matters. In any case, I've finally found a way of watching this game that suits me: with an improvised jazz accompaniment.

The Vortex Club are screening the matches and hosting two groups of jazz musicians - one for each side - who play along to the action, the music reflecting what's going on on the pitch. Yesterday was perhaps not the best first experience of this, with the game juddering to the usual penalty shoot-out misery but it added a new dimension to the game beyond the usual commentary. It would be easy to go overboard on how this is jazz how it should be, fluid unpredictable and so on but mainly it was just a tremendously fun experience, the final score notwithstanding.