The Genocide Olympics?
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under Football, Politics | 3 Comments
There’s a campaign under way in some quarters of the world to boycott the Olympics because of China’s compliance with the genocide underway in Darfur. I don’t think it will succeed, but Beijing is none too happy about it. The real issue here is, I think, who watches the Olympics anyway? I’ll watch every World [...]
Lionel Messi V Diego Maradona
Posted on April 20, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 3 Comments
This is Messi’s goal from Wednesday night against Getafe. It’s hard to say which is the better goal. Given the occasion, Maradona’s probably shades it, but then the England players barely tried to tackle him.
Robbed
Posted on April 11, 2007 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
What a disaster. I know that not all the goals were his fault, but Spalletti really has to replace Doni. A big forward like Luca Toni or Zlatan Ibrahimovic wouldn’t go astray either. Pity the club has no money…
Best of Times; Worst of Times
Posted on April 4, 2007 - Filed Under Football, Life-In-General | 3 Comments
Four hours sleep in 60, two essays submitted on the brink of their deadlines; followed by four days snowboarding and blading in Northern Italy. Also, Al Franken’s book on Fox, self-referencing in a college essay, a failed attempt to grow a decent beard, and, in the last half hour, a splendid Lexington article in the [...]
Roma V United
Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 2 Comments
The team I primarily support, AS Roma, has drawn Manchester United in the Champions League quarter finals. Here’s hoping that they expose United for the mediocre team they really are. Below is a video of the highlights from Roma’s 2nd leg match against Lyon in the last-16 phase, minus the horrific elbow into the face [...]
Barca Dissappoint; Inter and Valencia Brawl
Posted on March 7, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 1 Comment
Last year’s Champions League winners Barcelona limped out of the tournament this evening after a mediocre performance in Anfield against the 2005 winners Liverpool. Although the Catalan club scraped a 1-0 victory, they didn’t impress in the slightest and look only a shadow of the side that was so mesmerising for the last two years. [...]
Ferenc Puskas
Posted on November 18, 2006 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Ferenc Puskas died yesterday. Known variously as ‘Little Brother’, the ‘Galloping Major’ and the ‘Booming Cannon’, Hungarian-born Puskas was one of the finest footballers of the 20th Century. Over the course his long career he scored 357 goals in 354 appearances for Kispest Honved, 512 goals in 528 appearances for Real Madrid, and 83 goals [...]
Roma 4 – 0 Shaktar Donetsk
Posted on September 13, 2006 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Roma for la Scudetto and the Champions League this year. No, seriously.
Champions League Draw
Posted on August 24, 2006 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Yet again, Roma have got the shit end of the stick and landed in a nasty group while AC Milan, who shouldn’t even be in the tournament, have practically been given a direct ticket to the next round. The entire group draw is available to see here, on the official UEFA website. While we’re on [...]
J’ai Rentré
Posted on July 23, 2006 - Filed Under Football, Life-In-General, Politics | 1 Comment
I’m not sure if that’s even correct; ma conaissance de la langue francaise deviene plus nul chaque jour (see what I mean?). Anyway, I’m home now so it probably won’t be of any use for another year or so. Je viens de passer une cinquaine (ou “deux semaines”, since I’m not sure if that’s correct [...]
“We’re Doing This For The Boys In Iraq”
Posted on June 18, 2006 - Filed Under Football | 1 Comment
What a member of the U.S. team said to journalists before his team’s match with Italy, according to Bill O’Herlihy. I laughed until I wept. Apparently the same player, Landon Donovan I believe, claimed that his side were not going out to play a game of football but fight a war against the Azzurri, and [...]
The World Cup: What I Think Shall Come To Pass
Posted on June 4, 2006 - Filed Under Football | 6 Comments
As the newspapers are getting geared up for the greatest show on Earth with a deluge of factually inaccurate supplements (I didn’t know Esteban Cambiasso played for Juventus), I’ve decided to blog my own predictions here. I’ll go through the big teams one by one and rate their chances, starting with the Group A-based hosts, [...]
Goalkeeping Error
Posted on May 31, 2006 - Filed Under Football | 2 Comments
I saw this on Euronews last night. Just listen to the Polish crowd’s reaction.
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