Davos Newbies

It doesn’t sound like Condi Rice’s visit to Blackburn, Lancashire is going very well.

But the thing that puzzled me about The New York Times report was this sentence: “Ms. Rice used the occasion of the cancelled match to stand with Mr. Straw as they took turns giving foreign policy speeches — in a room-size skybox at the football park, as the British call their soccer stadiums.”

Now, perhaps I’ve been out of Britain for too long, but I don’t think anyone calls a football stadium a football park. Teams can be “played off the park”, but that refers to the pitch or field, not the stadium. C’mon Times, get it right.