11 hours away

I've just been thinking that the archetypal foreign tourist (from a non-rugby playing country, anyway) in Britain is likely to find it a bit weird tomorrow morning. Streets will be a lot emptier than normal, pubs will be open before 11am with people in and if they try and find out what's happening they'll probably fail to understand as they'll likely be having the rules of the game explained to them by someone who'd never really watched rugby until last week. Not that that's necessarily a handicap in explaining the rules - my brother's a referee and I'm not quite sure he really understands them all. Sometimes I wonder if it's just like the Irish Question - any time someone understands all the rules of the game, they change them.