Posts by giovanni tiso
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It's clearly pretty prevalent through the game:
Groan. Yawn.
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A high-scoring draw or a win against Paraguay, and we're through to the next round
A high-scoring draw is going to be enough only if Italy and Slovakia play to a low-scoring draw.
And I'd like to see Wood start the next game instead of Fallon, just in case we do go through
If you're suggesting that Herbert is going to "rest" anybody for the most important game in the history of NZ football, let me be the first to say: you're crazy.
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But if referees made occasional calls when they were sure that the player dived
They do. And it's an automatic yellow.
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But how many corners and shots on goal did Italy have!
If they had applied the "every five corner you get a goal" rule, Italy would have won 4-1. Just sayin'.
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Specifically, they referred to the scene at the beginning where Keanu rolls around in the rain and mud in a tight t-shirt, the camera lovingly caressing his every contour in the slowest of slo-mo.
Ah, but what do you make of male-directed films such as the Die Hard series? The first one in particular is all about luxuriating in the toned, aching body of Bruce W. I suppose you could call it homoerotic, but it seems simpler to just call it erotic.
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That would be my most likely scenario for NZ to advance too.
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We're going to have to start entertaining the possibility that New Zealand will advance to the second stage.
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Totti as well IMO
Camoranesi was asked to play in Totti's role in the second half, which is a little like putting Rococoko at first-five.
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That one's all about Italy, not a game report as such. Opening para:
"Now we can add to our curriculum of world cup holders a draw against New Zealand, and can add our name to the list of big teams - France, England, Germany, Spain and so forth - for whom the tournament has become literally indigestible. Assuming we still count ourselves amongst the big teams: you wouldn't say so on the evidence. From now on we'd better start looking at home instead of commenting on the troubles of others. We have a poor team and it's becoming harder to continue repeating outselves that the further we go, the more chances we're going to have, that we're not that bad, that with a little luck we could get the big prize. The words are carried away by the wind of the savannah: if we can't score a goal - if not via a penalty that was half gifted - the problem is difficult, almost insurmountable."
He notes further on that Italy's was "the easiest group in the draw". Not sure I agree with that (what about Group C, the best English group since the Beatles?) but it sure didn't look hard on paper.
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"Italy continues to disappoint - only 1-1 vesus New Zealand". And the report is more about Italy's deficiencies than New Zealand's heroics, as you'd expect I suppose. The All Whites painted as a tall, muscular bunch, booting the ball forward to their towering strikers, to which Italy initially responds in kind. Notes that both the goal the penalty were iffy, gives credit to New Zealand for creating the best chance in the dying stages (the title of the last section of the report is "Assault and terror"). But mostly it's about Italy's shortcomings. Indeed the headline of the other article is "It's not just Lippi's fault, we're just poor..."
ETA: I see your PS now, thanks, I'll read it through and report back.