Don't tell me the score!

A winning start for the Tahs!
All reports suggest it was an outstanding performance from club rugby's favourite son, Mat Rogers. One game down, only three more to go before his season ending injury wrecks our chances of winning the title.
While the match was being played on Friday evening in Sydney, I was at work on Friday morning in London; so I didn't get the opportunity to see it. I did however follow the occasional updates posted on the NSW Rugby website and thus knew the outcome when the match was over.
A very close friend of mine, who is a passionate rugby fun, does not want to know the score. He hopes, although he does not know for sure, that a pub somewhere in London will be showing a replay of the game, around Wednesday next week. He has requested that all his friends, many of whom are also passionate rugby and Waratah fans, do not tell him the score. He already has a voice message on his phone from a friend of ours back in Sydney, and will be getting his girlfriend to screen the message in case it contains any reference to the result.
I can understand where he's coming from, watching a game of sport is far more exciting when one doesn't know the outcome. It's perfectly reasonable to miss watching a game on a Saturday afternoon, and request not to be notified of the result so one can watch the replay in the evening. Surely though, asking your mates to wait almost 6 days without mentioning the match is a bit much? This is the first game of the Super12 season we're talking about here. Rugby is a big part of our social circle, asking us not to talk about rugby is almost like asking us to not talk at all.
Essentially this is all a big burden for me to shoulder It is not necessarily about temptation and wanting to reveal the result, but it will be a conscious effort not to slip into what would otherwise be a regular conversation.
Although I think he's a bit bonkers, I'm happy to play along. I cannot however, guarantee this will still be the case when the season is 12 weeks old!


Ok well after writing all that down, I just thought I'd email the text of the posting to my mate just so he could read my comments about him before I posted them. What I forgot when I did this was that I revealed the outcome at the beginning of the post. Stupid me. So now after having written that whole spiel and saying I wasn't going to tell him the score, I just did.

Funny though, if he hadn't been so adamant that he didn't want to know the score for 6 days, I would never have written this post, and never revealed the result.

I do feel bad though. Sorry Buddy