Last night I watched Germany edge past Turkey in the Euro2008 semi-finals .

There must have been 1,000+ people packed into O’Malley’s to watch the game. With about 75 minutes gone and the score tied at 1-1, the TV cut out. No-one was pleased.

The live footage was out for maybe 10-15 minutes, during which time both teams scored. People all around were getting phone calls and text messages from home telling them the score, so random pockets of people were celebrating whilst others didn’t know why.

To make things worse the TV station, with no live footage to show, was repeating earlier goals and near misses- and half the crowd thought it was live.

Anyway the whole thing left me utterly exhausted and I slept in until 5:30pm today. So here, late, is some timelapse stuff I shot in Tiananmen square when I was in Beijing last weekend.

If that doesn’t work, here’s the same thing on Youtube.