The Monday Milestone

Filed in Other by on October 16, 2011

The alarm bleeps. Ugh.

Groggily the eyes open, staring blearily at the world, to begin yet another week. Rubbing the sleep away, stumbling to the bathroom, pulling out a razor, there’s a pot of strong coffee brewing in the kitchen. It’s all a little bit too early.

Ah Mondays. Don’t we all love them?

Apparently in the Netherlands, it is the most common day of the week to either surf the web or commit suicide. And from the annals of history, nothing good ever seems to even happen on Mondays. It was on a Monday that the RMS Titanic hit the floor of the Atlantic in 1912. It was on a Monday that the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. It was on a Monday that John Lennon was shot in 1980.

But like death, taxes and Bert Newton they are an inevitability of life. We get a new one every week. And each Monday, just as the next weekend of watching sport and gambling could not be any further away, Making the Nut steps in for the history buffs out there…

Welcome to the Monday Milestone where each week we will take a wander through the halls of sporting history to see what has shaped the landscape we play, we watch and we punt on today. Stories remembered long after the time has run down and the last spectator has left the arena.

Each week the Milestone will bring historical tales that still permeate through the modern day. Perhaps it is the week that Mark Taylor equalled Sir Donald Bradman’s 334 at Peshawar during the Second Test against Pakistan in 1998. Or perhaps it is the week that Australian track specialist Peter Norman stood on the dais in 1968 in Mexico City after the 200m Olympic final as Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raised their fists in the black power salute for American civil rights. In any week there is always a story to tell, and each Monday the Milestone will have a little something from the history books for you.

So whilst we can’t speed up the coming week, nor bring the next weekend sooner, and we unfortunately can’t help you shake the uneasy feeling that you probably shouldn’t have had that last beer, or glass of red wine the night before, starting next week, the Monday Milestone can provide some historical respite to ease you into the working week.

Or alternatively, you can hit snooze, roll over, and sleep for another nine minutes.

Either way, the Milestone will still be there.

Welcome.

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