Posts by giovanni tiso
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Firstly, the trip that you said wasn't a trip was in fact a trip. Secondly, how is palming the ball away on the line different from hacking a player down whom you think might be about to score? They're both fouls, they're both calculated, they both attract penalties. So long as they're sanctioned, they don't qualify as cheating, sorry. Rugby has penalty tries for these kinds of situations, whereas football has a penalty kick plus an automatic red card. But neither the rugby player who commits a professional foul leading to a penalty try is a cheat, nor is the footballer (Australia did it twice in the tournament!) who saves the ball on the line. Sorry.
ETA: Keir said it better.
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Both games were absolutely extraordinary today, incidentally. Two for the annals.
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Sorry, he did what he had to do. Sacrificed himself, too, he's going to miss the game of his life through suspension. Although of course you could argue there would have been no such game had he not switched codes at that particular moment. Nonetheless: he did exactly what he was supposed to do. There is nothing cynical about it. You're on the line, it's the last minute, your goalkeeper is down, it's up to you to keep that ball out. Nobody who understands football would accuse him of dishonesty.
That was fucking heartbreaking though.
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I was about to enthuse about Rosamond Lehmann and then realised I was mixing her up with Elizabeth von Arnim.
We've all been there.
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I don't think anybody has ever worn a 31 at a World Cup. Don't they go from 1 to 23?
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Why am I thinking there was some controversy relating to Rossi in the wake of that '82 win? Am I imagining that?
He was suspended for two years from all football due to a match-fixing scandal, but that was in fact before the cup. He had just finished his suspension when Bearzot called him into the squad, to the surprise of many.
Ac Milan had been relegated as a consequence of that same scandal. After the 2006 victory, a number of domestic clubs were found to be embroiled in a referee-tampering conspiracy, and Juventus was demoted to Serie B. So you see major league-busting scandals are really what we need in order to win a Cup. Either that, or Fascism.
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It's Peter Jackson - I'm pretty sure he could buy Grammar and have it changed if he wanted to.
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That's nothing: we used to wear our socks rolled up.
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Yes, but! Squad numbers have been around for ages in the world cup. It's part of what distinguished the world cup from club leagues. Rossi wore 20 in 1982, even though he was the designated centre-forward since well before the tournament started.
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Here it is:
I propose a standing ovation for those gerberas.