Reminds me a lot of the way the Greeks played football during the last Euro Championship, really. Their (German) coach Otto Rehhagel is said to have told them to play in an old, out-of-date style that their opponents wouldn't be able to cope with...
The Euro 2004 final is on in the pub. Plucky little Dago United plays against Zorba FC. All the Greek players appear to be called Stelios. The Portuguese keep on doing these tricky little displays of control football which have invariably ended in them falling over their own feet. The preferred Greek method of taking possession of the ball seems to involve grabbing the other guy and throwing him to the ground.
Two Portuguese have gotten so involved with their clever playing that they have just run into each other and temporarily knocked themselves out.
One Greek has independently invented a Cossack dance style of tackling.
Well, coach Rehagel surely looks like *he* is, most of the time.
Many people here thought it was embarrassing that the German team didn't win shit, while one of their old league coaches goes abroad and leads another team to victory.
Thank god I don't care much about football. I thought it was hilarious.
If you're drunk, and I absolutely sure that I am, having spent too much time in one of my favourite locals, talking to an 18-year-old charmer called Hassan and plotting ways in which he can become a multi-millionaire via kebabs, it's about time I reminded you that the last time I emailed you I was druank and I offered you whisk(e)y and you were either drunk or stoned on inspiration and agreed and we still haven't made it to Gilroys or whatever they're called.
"We are blow-dried multimillionaires who shag pop-star-lookalike groupies and have mock-Tudor mansions in the Home Counties. Why are these people, who probably live in tin houses and get their water from wells, being so nasty to us?"
It's really disturbing how you continue to be so damned brilliant. You're an evil space monkey from the future aren't you?
You may not like sports but damned if that wasn't a nice little analysis full of heart and just a touch of the nationalistic pride that makes sports so beloved. Plus angry maleness which is also very sportsy.
Personally being South American I have always liked the pretty ballet futbol of the Brazillians and such. But have to admit it's fun when the Europeans play aggresive beat the shit out of everything and just stick the ball into the net by any means necessary, football. Which is how all sports should be played... Off to cry about basketball and read the apparat books which I finally got which is the only reason I have the balls to write this.
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The Euro 2004 final is on in the pub. Plucky little Dago United plays against Zorba FC. All the Greek players appear to be called Stelios. The Portuguese keep on doing these tricky little displays of control football which have invariably ended in them falling over their own feet. The preferred Greek method of taking possession of the ball seems to involve grabbing the other guy and throwing him to the ground.
Two Portuguese have gotten so involved with their clever playing that they have just run into each other and temporarily knocked themselves out.
One Greek has independently invented a Cossack dance style
of tackling.
I'm pretty sure most of them are drunk.
I wish I was.
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I'm pretty sure most of them are drunk.
I wish I was.
Well, coach Rehagel surely looks like *he* is, most of the time.
Many people here thought it was embarrassing that the German team didn't win shit, while one of their old league coaches goes abroad and leads another team to victory.
Thank god I don't care much about football. I thought it was hilarious.
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(Yes, this was more than three years ago.)
*waves drunkenly and cheerily*
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It's really disturbing how you continue to be so damned brilliant. You're an evil space monkey from the future aren't you?
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Personally being South American I have always liked the pretty ballet futbol of the Brazillians and such. But have to admit it's fun when the Europeans play aggresive beat the shit out of everything and just stick the ball into the net by any means necessary, football. Which is how all sports should be played... Off to cry about basketball and read the apparat books which I finally got which is the only reason I have the balls to write this.
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