Confluence of braaing and football

Dear braaibed colleagues,

Amidst the turmoil and exhaustion at the end of last year, I somewhat exuberantly announced that the next BIP newsletter would focus on the confluence of braaing and football. Whereas I have to admit that my knowledge of football is not significant, I feel that BIP in the African World Cup year has to say something about this.

Simply put, braaing is the ultimate description of life as we know it. From the evolution of humanity, we progressed to cooking food on fires, whereas soccer appears to have arisen as a game in the 15th century odd involving two villages trying to carry/kick a pig's bladder to each other's village. It is now accepted fact that after the respective village won and all the dead and maimed were removed from the 'field', they braaied the pig's bladder, although oral history records on this are surprisingly short on detail as to how it was braaied.