Posts by giovanni tiso
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Porn? Surely the first thing Goff is going to be saying to Jones is "what the fuck were you thinking and how the hell didn't I know it weeks ago"? That could have been managed 10 times better.
Totally. And there are so many ways they could have softened that particular blow. For instance, play a funky jazz soundtrack when he walked into the House.
(As a matter of fact, he still wasn't completely owning up to it on the morning of the disclosure. That's your definition of running behind the news right there.)
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I think here it's different though, because of... the last thing that Kyle said. Which was almost the whole point of The Wire. (Incidentally, the Wire has plenty of cool gangsterism as well. It is not something that has to be wholly problematic in itself.)
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Can I just say I clean forgot about this game on the night? I know the other football was on, and there is the running storyline of my brain rot. Nonetheless, I used to look forward to the first All Blacks test of the season more. I wonder if others feel the same way.
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That last thing you said - that's the crux of it I think. "More difficult" is not an excuse I find especially compelling.
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Actually, I'm not so sure about that. I'd be interested to hear what people think of it after they've seen it - I thought it didn't do some of the obvious things that The Wire did, and that it could in fact be enjoyed as war porn to a certain extent if you were so minded. (I could say why I think that, but it would be spoilerific.)
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It does look on paper like our worst team of the last twenty years. On paper, we could be embarrassed. Just as well the game is not played on paper. Let's say that I'm eagerly awaiting the opener against Paraguay.
(As for "too much older our players", I don't know, I think Lippi made an obvious effort not to repeat the mistakes of 1986 and left a few veterans at home. Maybe one more than I would have, I'd be happier with Totti in the team. But the end result is that we depend on some of the relative unknowns who make us look weak on paper to become stars. A very big ask.)
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As is hearing from Labour itself, and indeed Red Alert is good value. The problem with the Standard is that its arguments are dishonest, not that they are biased. We can all live with bias.
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Graeme a Tory. Unclean! NYEUUURGH!
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So Wayne Barnes was paid by somebody in 2007?
No. One thing doesn't follow from the other, but you know that. And honestly, I'm on record saying after the game vs. Italy that the somewhat rotund ref might have simply lost his capacity to physically keep up with the game in extra time, hence his cool - an unpopular view at the time amongst my compatriots as you can imagine. The Spain game put paid to that theory I think.
The question I am asking myself now is would it be very stupid to stay up to watch Algeria v Slovenia when I have to teach tomorrow morning?
It could be The Game of the World Cup!
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The corruption stuff is just insulting though. It's easy to throw around when there's no proof either way.
There will never be proof. That doesn't mean there wasn't a crime - I think it was pretty obvious to anybody who knows football. And I'm not saying it's the bad Koreans, either. Italy domestically has a long history of match fixing and referee corruption, and it's never proven until somebody slips up. But you also learn to tell referee mistakes from favouritism. In spite of the Totti sending off and the two disallowed goals for Spain, the most telling aspect of both those games will always be the fouling. The Korean players - as any professional would - quickly worked out that they could get away with feet first lunges and other kinds of murder. That's a major tilt in any game.
In the meantime Korea look good in dispatching Greece in 2010 :)
That they did.