{"id":35,"date":"2008-05-20T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2008\/05\/20\/runners-and-riders\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:06:56","slug":"runners-and-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2008\/05\/20\/runners-and-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners and riders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>POST LIVE FROM BELGRADE\u00a0&#8211; 6.26PM\u00a0 LOCAL TIME (5.26PM UK TIME)<\/strong><strong>&#8211; TUESDAY 20 MAY 2008<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so &#8211; tonight is the first of the semi-finals, and Karen, Milijia and I (Milijia arrived yesterday) have decided our &#8216;list of death&#8217;, in order to try and make some predictions about that will make it through to the final, and kill-off the songs that we think aren&#8217;t up to the grade &#8211; yes, I know what you&#8217;re saying at home!<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; only 10 of the 19 will make it.\u00a0 Without confering, we have unanimously agreed that these songs will progress to the final:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Israel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Azerbaijan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bosnia &amp;\u00a0Herzegovina<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Armenia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Romania<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Greece<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s seven out of ten!\u00a0 Not bad &#8211; unless we get it really wrong! The ones that we don&#8217;t agree on:<\/p>\n<p>Phil and Karen &#8211; <strong>Norway<\/strong> YES!, Milijia NO!<\/p>\n<p>Milijia &#8211; <strong>Poland<\/strong> YES!, Karen and Phil NO!<\/p>\n<p>Karen and Phil &#8211; <strong>Finland<\/strong> YES, Milijia NO!<\/p>\n<p>Karen and Milijia &#8211; <strong>Slovenia <\/strong>YES!, Phil NO!<\/p>\n<p>Phil and Milijia &#8211; <strong>Netherlands <\/strong>YES!, Karen NO!<\/p>\n<p>There will be tears by bed&#8230; and not by the artists if we&#8217;re rubbish at all this!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POST LIVE FROM BELGRADE\u00a0&#8211; 6.26PM\u00a0 LOCAL TIME (5.26PM UK TIME)&#8211; TUESDAY 20 MAY 2008\u00a0 Ok, so &#8211; tonight is the first of the semi-finals, and Karen, Milijia and I (Milijia arrived yesterday) have decided our &#8216;list of death&#8217;, in order to try and make some predictions about that will make it through to the final, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1484,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurovision-2008","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Runners and riders... - Phil Jackson&#039;s Eurovision Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2008\/05\/20\/runners-and-riders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Runners and riders... - Phil Jackson&#039;s Eurovision Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"POST LIVE FROM BELGRADE\u00a0&#8211; 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