You might go blind.
This is not a review of the well received album. In fact, I will freely admit that while I listened to the whole album, I was pretty bored and I do not remember most of it.
However, I’m interested in who I have to blame thank for this album. I understand that Kanye is the “musical” force behind the production and all the rest of that stuff. But who is responsible for how it sounds, how I feel when I listen to it. I am a major fan of both these people and I was even a fan of the blueprint 3 which many people were not.
I think its boring. Who’s fault is that? I don’t know.
The music isn’t boring necessarily. While there is nothing on here that is as memorable as the stuff on MDTF (or is it MTDR), it’s not an unenjoyable album. Both rappers know how to rap and I’m pretty sure they acquitted themselves well, though I can’t quite remember.
I blame lack of purpose. Which is me saying both of them basically. The album was too laid back, without actually being laid back. It wasnt a stoner album. Its J and ‘Ye. But it felt like a hobby. and not a cool hobby like manhunting. A kinda cool hobby like… collecting sneakers… (Which is actually a pretty pointless hobby come to think of it, is it even a hobby).
Anyway. I was bored and I’m unwilling to blame myself. Maybe its like the album was a party. I came late to the party and everyone was having a great time. In the morning I woke up with no memory of what happen and a missing shoe. Which is a good time but I was expecting..
To wake up with in bed with 3 hot girls and a fat guy in a thong, wondering if I had done something gay, half my beard shaved, my wallet missing, somebody elses (I assume) shit stains on my pants in a neighbourhood I don’t remember getting to…. Maybe its my fault.
Crownies is a new Australian tv show about the states lawyers, those who prosecute criminals, I don’t know which state they are in yet but it doesn’t seem important…. Its description included something about young, modern professionals looking for love or some such nonsense. I haven’t watched many Australian tv shows, but I am always willing to watch a show with attractive people, and this show has attractive people.. Oh ya.. Sex and Crime is also included somewhere in the description.
So I don’t review things, there are people waaaaaaaaaay better than me at doing this but I don’t understand this show, and I’m bored so I’m writing…
So it starts, we are dropped into a blonde girls bathroom who is dressing up in um… something weird… like lingerie or something and I start logging off mentally because even though she is pretty it seems like a silly thing to be showing us… Then it jumps into the office and there are 100 characters introduced into the mix, the parents of the murder victim in the case, other lawyers, other shit.
At this point I don’t know what is going on….. stuff happens.. people cry… We jump to another case where a teenager I think was raped and assaulted and the show deals with the next 5 minutes horribly… I wont even go there…. More lawyer stuff… there are so many characters and they seem to just spend the whole day looking at things and people…
We are in the bathroom where young female lawyers are discussing something that seems important in their underwear while getting ready for this party that the blonde girl was dressing up for… She seems extremely unprofessional but more on that later… There is a discussion between her and an old lady about how god is here say which was kinda funny I think…. We are introduced to man-crying lawyer who doesn’t want to do the cases where children are molested or something so he is breaking down for some reason.. Oh and this other lawyer guy who is an arrogant ass type is getting lots of screen time to do arrogant asstype stuff…. Oh there is a rumour going round the office about something about something…. The attorney General is a pervert I think.???
Now all the girls are dressed suggestively because the party is soon…. around 5-8 minutes of stuff happens that I couldn’t care less about.. We meet blonde girls boyfriend who is a walking cliché (she is 22 apparently)….. arrogant ass lawyer ends up in the judges associates office (another pretty girl) they talk about lots of shit while she changes before she grabs his balls because that’s how bonobos (they look like chimpanzees) greet each other, she is a feminist apparently who has a picture of the chimpanzee lookalike on her door because in their society women rule so there is less violence or something?? WTF?? they also have orgy sex.. I think.. at this point I’m really confused.
We are now at the party…. We meet more people and there are more conversations about stuff that sure seems like its important… we met a court reporter and a detective… At this point all the men look the same and the women are refreshingly diverse. 22-year-old blonde is being forcefully pushed on us as smart.. then…
Crying-man lawyer finds her boyfriend snorting coke in the bathroom… tells her of course then…. sigh.. they go outside she is really mad.. He thinks oh if i was caught it would be a fine and slap on the wrist… she says.. “I’m not talking bout you imagine what that would have meant for me, can you just think about me for one second (then stuff about her career and colleagues most of which she is right about btw)”….. PAUSE…. I have so many thoughts about this…
1st.. She has a job that was highly competitive i assume, so she must be smart, being a recent graduate and stuff. Yet her boyfriend is a ridiculously stupid person as he appears to be.
2nd.. She has been walking around in lingerie all day and now is when she is worried about her career?
3rd.. Either she always wants him to think about her first or he never thinks about her first either way why is she with him? and how simultaneously stupid and smart can this show make her seem?
He pulls out a wedding ring…. She kisses him.. Nobody actually asked or agreed to anything.. but it’s stronglly implied… She isn’t mad anymore… (So is she the smart 22-year-old lawyer graduate with a great job or the girl who seems very stupid.)
Chimpanzee girl and arrogant lawyer guy have sex on the bosses desk.. Why?? Who the fuck knows.
22-year-old lawyer girl is really being made to look stupid and smart at the same time… It’s like her character is some sort of statement..
Other shit is happening.. morning after stuff… oh.. there is an alarm clock that looks like it’s from the 80s.
They are doing some case stuff… To be honest at this point ive stopped caring.. I’m not watching.. There might have been some swear words.. But there wont be any nudity and that’s my que to log my brain out…
I didn’t watch the rest of the episode and I wont be watching the rest of this show…. I do not get it. It might be a really good show, but I got bored, confused and bored again by the stupid show.
I wonder how much of his body is not painted......
At the start of this football season I arrived at a strange area, I wondered about my fandom, specifically my “love” of united (Manchester United). See, I couldn’t figure out why I was such a strong fan of that specific team…. Wait.. I’m going to treat this like an extremely simple essay with an introduction/background, body and conclusion.. up up and away….
Introduction/Background
I started out being a fan of Manchester United at some point in my youth… I can’t think of a reason why. Seriously… I just became a fan, that was my team.. Manchester United and Brazil. Football was my only sport, those were my only teams.. I still don’t know why, It was probably because I saw them win.. I was and still am a child, I also used to jump off trees (after climbing them for another unknown reason), throw stuff at other stuff and generally do a lot of dodgy ass sh*t, so don’t judge me… B**ch. Anyway, As I grew larger and older and less mature, I picked up teams from other leagues. I had Kaiser Chiefs in South Africa, a team that wore blue in Nigeria, Every Kenyan Team (otherwise I feel like Im cheating), Zamalek in Egypt… I think, Mamba or Simba or something in Tanzania, Juventus in Italy, Barca in Spain, Werder Bremen in Germany, PSV in Holland, Lyon in France, DC United?? in the USA… You know what I watched a lot of football. I liked these teams for a variety of reasons but that’s not important right now… Then I branched out into other sports and collected teams in the nba, nfl, rugby, cricket, tiger woods and whatever other sport I watched at least once… but back to my point… Lets just jump into the body… Jump..
Body
Back to last summer… I couldn’t figure out why I was such a huge fan of manchester united… when I say why I don’t mean why did I become and continue to be, I mean why as in is there a point anymore… I thought to myself have a outgrown the specific type of fandom I have for Manchester United?
Before I continue its important to note that by outgrown I didn’t mean have I become too old or too mature because I clearly havent.. I meant have I come to a point in my overall sports fandom and habits where my manchester united “love” is out-of-place with the rest of my personality and the way I see things… bear with me.
In every other facet of my sports fandom (I am this [] close to writing condom).. I have a more balanced view.. If juventus lose, Life goes on…. If the San Antonio Spurs lose, Life goes on bitterly… If manchester united lose, I go outside with a machine gun looking for ninjas who smell like Liverpool fans.
So I realised there is no difference between united and the spurs to me. I have never been to either city or watched games from either of the two teams live like in person and stuff…. In fact I was in the US for a Spurs victory, albeit in a whole different state and I’ve never even been to England, so I arguably have closer connection to the spurs than I do to united. Nobody in my family was a huge fan so really there was no reason for my life to be so positively and negatively affected by how well 11 strangers played against 11 strangers (argument for another day).
Furthermore, United is not the type of team i would choose with my personality. I like teams like the Spurs who are well coached, consistent, unflashy, businesslike, don’t seek attention in other words the opposite of cristiano ronaldo (dickhead). United have elements of this, true, but I did not know this when I became a fan. I just chose them.
Furtherfurthermore.. more.. united is the goliath.. i like Davids.
Conclusion
I have rambled on and on… The point is.. I came to realise that, I had a unnessesary connection to united that I had from childhood or young younghood and it had carried on to my youth and young manhood. Unlike my connection to famous people who I didn’t know, which is more rational or irrational depending on how you look at it (another day, I promise), my connection to my teams was more balanced and had more perspective. Except with united. So I decided to slowly bring the “love” down to where I felt it fit in with the me at age x (now) not the me at age younger. I realised that I had held on to whatever ideal I had placed in united way back when I used to throw stuff at other stuff, that had worn out its usefulness.
So when Chelsea beat United 2-1 last week. I picked up my books and went to class (time difference) and didn’t think about it much from there. Do I still want united to win everything?? of course. Do I still hate Chelsea and Arsenal?? yes, but not because I like united, i just think those are two dickish teams (which is an accusation that can be levied at united with little resistance from this cool ass dude).
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Now, I have united in perspective…. or better perspective. I still have an irrational like for them like every international sports fan who has never left their house does, but I wont be shooting pregnant ladies because Rooney has scored 6 goals in 12 months.
That doesn’t mean I don’t need therapy, when Kenya lost in the cricket to New Zealand by a million, I was lurking around outside a mcdonalds listening to everyone talk trying to tell the difference between the Australian and New Zealand accent… I couldn’t do it… Otherwise.. well you know..
Rooney United for Life?
First Let me just say that Wayne Rooney is my favorite player, or was my favorite player. I liked the way he played. He was as pure a footballer as you could want. Obviously not pure in the bible sense, just as a pure footballer there was nobody in the pros who was made to be a footballer as much as he was, in my mind.
Sure he wasnt perfect, the legendary temper, the curious profligacy in front of goal and the nagging feeling that he never reached the heights his talent suggested he could. I never wavered, there were few things in football that made me as excited as watching Rooney on the ball.
He was like nobody in football. Lionel Messi may be the best player in the world but he doesn’t have that same…. whatever it is that Rooney had. It just seemed like he was doing things because he was there and he could. I cannot explain it.
This year, he hit an injury full goal free stretch, One goal since march. I never wavered. He had a terrible World Cup. I never wavered. He was allegedly involved in some solicitation, not only didn’t I waiver, I became more of a fan.
Then, last week he asked out of Manchester United. Now, I was just as surprised as anyone, but I was not very surprised when he signed.
Whenever I talked to my friends about Rooney the man who I equate him with the most is Lebron James because they both seem like they were put on this earth to just play their sports. I had no problem when James left Cleveland, the way he announced his departure was terrible, but the act of leaving had no effect on how I felt about him as a player or person. I laughed at the over emotional reaction of Cleveland fans. Always in my mind was that he is labour and in any contractual situation I tend to side with labour and not management, screw the millionaires, innit.
So why didn’t I feel the same way about Rooney? Why didn’t I react by supporting his choice as labour to do what he wants? Why did I react like a cartoonish Cleveland fan?
Well the answer came to me when I compared their two situations. they have been pros for almost the same amount of time. Lebron carried his team for years and got no help, him leaving for a better situation was the common sense move. The classless, egotistical and insensitive way he left was, in the larger scheme of things, not a big deal.
Not Rooney. Rooney had been on a Man Utd team that leant on him but that he did not carry. He had won every trophy available to him. He had everything. Then wanted assurances that the team still planned to be competitive in the future. This is United. Manchester United. Wayne Rooney has been alive for 25 years. This club was great before his parents met. The idea that he was worried about the clubs finances is ludicrous. What assurances did they give him in one day that he accepted a deal THAT MADE HIM THE HIGHEST PAID PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is more likely, that they showed him financial reports that proved future stability or that they showed him his yearly salary and he signed?
It was obviously an exercise in public negotiation. To get more money. Sir Alex blamed his agents. I hope that is true. Even if it is not, Rooney has lost my respect.
I am not sad, my feelings are not hurt and I don’t need a psychiatrist. I am angry. not real angry. sports angry. Rooney being a publicly greedy asshole doesn’t change my days.
Will I forgive him? I already have. But I will never look at him in the same way. I will cheer when he scores for United. I will frown when he scores for England. I will continue to be unbothered and uninterested by his prostitute. I will root for him as hard as before. I will get excited every time he sets his sights on the goal and bears down.
But in the back of my mind. He will never be the same. there will always be a little hater in the back of my mind that makes me wonder.
I have only ever bought one players jersey: David Beckham. The day he left United, any naivety I had about footballers disappeared. Or so I thought. I mark the last week as the second time I have felt the innocence is gone from the decreasing attractive game… Why do I keep getting sucked in?
To quote a scene from The Godfather II, “……..because this is the business we have chosen…”
With the new season of tv shows starting this month I was very interested in seeing how two shows would approach season ending decisions made by the writing teams. One was Dexter the other was Supernatural. Now Dexter has already been written about here by a professional, but I wanted to say some things about Supernatural’s problem solving with many spoilers….
At the end of last season with the World saved, Sam was ‘dead’ and Dean had a family with Lisa and her son. If i ignore the fact that I didn’t like certain parts of that story, that still painted the series into a corner. This year the new show runner had already said that the series would focus on the brothers relationship, something which I dreaded because that’s the part of the show which I dislike the most, and also with the series effectively over this was going to be like Scrubs: Med School, Supernatural 2.0.
I have only watched one episode so far but it is clear that they are trying as hard as possible to dig themselves out of the season 5 hole. Sam shows up half way through the episode saying that he has been back for 1 year, it is as anticlimactic a moment as you can imagine. There are shifty family members who have been helping Sam for the year, Bobby has known for a year. It all feels very rushed and even the meaning and gravity of a year is lost, everyone reacts like a year is a month. Then, they mention that things are weird since the almost end of the world which is good because otherwise it would have been a very bland episode. Overall it felt like they wanted to skip all the effects of last season and start anew, which I like but as an episode it felt really disjointed I am hoping they improve but I am weary of past programs which have faced similar issues.
This article went into the greater financial reasons for city’s strange spending, as a result of UEFAs new regulations, teams can only choose 25 eligible players until January, I don’t understand the squad composition. A quick peruse of the City Squad brings up this list of names (players who might actually play):
- Shay Given GK
- Joe Hart GK
- Stuart Taylor GK
- Micah Richards D
- Wayne Bridge D
- Pablo Zabaleta D
- Aleksander Kolarov D
- Jerome Boateng D
- Joleon Lescott D
- Kolo Toure D
- Vincent Kompany M
- Michael Johnson M
- James Milner M
- Shaun Wright-Philips M
- Adam Johnson M
- Gareth Barry M
- Silva M
- Patrick Viera M
- Kelvin Etuhu M
- Nigel de Jong M
- Yaya Toure M
- Emmanuel Adebayor F
- Robinho F
- Roque Santa Cruz F
- Jo F
- Carlos Tevez F
- Mario Balotelli F
So keeping in mind UEFA’s new restrictions only allow 25 eligible players. so lets take out say, Robinho and Jo, about 50 million in expenditure plus wages. leaving us with a tight and clean 25 right. well then lets not forget Craig Bellamy was just sent away. he doesn’t count towards this years quota though, but he cost something right?
Lets delve into a starting 11.( At first look I would pick assuming everyone is fit):
Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Boateng, A. Johnson, Barry, Toure, Milner, Tevez, Adebayor.
on the 7 man bench:
Hart, Kolarov, Zabaleta, Silva, Philips, De-Jong, Balotelli or something.
Leaving out. among others Santa Cruz, Viera, other Johnson and a bunch of other guys sitting out.
Now the squad wont differ much from this weekly. so every week there will be over 100 million worth of talent bought in the last 2/3 years, not seeing the field. It is the weirdest list of players ever, i mean look at the mid-field? like 11 players for 4 spots, now obviously some would always be bench player, but there is a healthy number of players in this squad who wont be on the matchday team yet city has spent money on them in the last couple of years. can you tell me what they are doing?.
What.. What??
- Joe Cole goes to Liverpool. Been reading it’s because Liverpool offered him 90k a week. I hope that’s not true because that would be dumb.
- Weird season coming up who’s going to win I see no clear front-runner.
- United haven’t added much. I’m going to trust my main-est man Sir Alex, he usually knows what he is doing.
- Man city have destroyed the market. they have changed the meaning of value. I predict many teams wont buy players this year. Still don’t think City is a championship contender buying players without a real plan doesn’t work.
- How dope is Man vs Wild?
- After watching these narrated shows like MvsW and Ross Kemp on Gangs, I keep wondering why the guys try to create drama with their narration. I mean we know you didn’t die because your narrating the show so stop saying “Anything could happen, I could die.” and some such non-sense.
- Bad Girls Club. My type of show.
- Real World. My type of show.
- Sportscenter. My type of show.
- Louie. My type of show.
- Jessica Simpson: The Price of Beauty. Not my type of show.
- Been watching kids shows lately. I like them
- Elections in Australia. I don’t care who wins, this system makes no sense.
- Does anyone know how fast a bear can run?
- Or what to do if Bees sting you and your isolated in the desert.
- I really like Man vs Wild.
- How Dumb is the Bachelor/ette.?
- Always wash your hands if you have been touching car parts.
- Believe me.
- Just always wash your hands.
- Male strippers? whats the point.
- J. Cole – Who Dat. classic song.
- Doctor Who, weirdly good.
With the World Cup over and The Premier League kicking off in about a month or just over a month. I find myself in that strange 4 week gap between sports that I face every year that I fill with the Tour of France. It is a great tour this year but I’ve been hearing news about footballers that has me thinking.
Every year at about this time or early next month, Arsenal fans that I know talk about how they are going to win the Premier League, Champions League, F.A. Cup, League Cup, Spanish League and Asian Champions League. Then when I ask why they didn’t in the year before (or since 2005) they always say “If we didn’t have injuries we would have won the league, we are unlucky, teams play rough against us….” blah blah blah.
Then I watched the movie ‘Death at a Funeral’ the 2010 version, which is basically like the 2007 version but with black people. Chris Rock had a line that went something like “It can’t be a mood if he is always mad, its his personality”. This got me connecting that line with Arsenal and their go-to excuse.
It is true that Arsenal had many injuries but that excuse is played out now, Fernando Torres is a great striker but it seems like lately he is a half season striker, he always seems to get injured. So can Liverpool really blame their bad form from now onwards on him being missing? No… Could they do that before… Probably. but its more likely Steven Gerrard.
Lemme focus in on Arsenal because that is who I am being mean to today. I did some research because my memory is good but not THAT good. A quick look at Nicklas Bendtner shows appearances of 42, 27, 31 and 23 in his career at Arsenal, that’s pretty good right?
However Bendtner isn’t who Arsenal fans complain about, lets see Robin van Persie who is their best striker, his highest number of appearances in a season….28 in 9 years as a pro, with an average of 21 games a year. Here is Theo Walcott. Here is Eduardo. Here is Eboue. Here is Rosicky. Here is Fabregas. Is there a pattern forming? I think there is.
Have a look at Frank Lampard and compare him to Michael Essien. Is my point clear?
Look at Manchester United. Wayne Rooney, Owen Hargreaves and Paul Scholes.
The point is a good important player’s appearances are usually a good indicator of whether or not his team does well, however some players are just the type to stay on the field. Now even if you factor in rest games which are between 1-3 a season unless there is a crazy reason why a guy needs so much rest. Paul Scholes has over ten years of games and his average is about 30-31 games a year. Lampard is at about 34 games a year. All the Arsenal guys are at under 30 games a year. Owen Hargreaves has a clear history of sitting on the sidelines, did Man U lose last year because he wasn’t there? come on.
So how can Arsenal fans say it’s because of injuries? only Fabregas had way less games this couple of years. Michael Essien is clearly injury prone, if Chelsea don’t win are we going to start saying “Well if Essien had played they would have been much better or won or whatever”.
All I’m saying is if your always injured it is what you are, not a “mood”.
I'm good for half a year.
My Mega review, or at least a bit longer review. Maybe its a short but not very short review. Anyway its an adventure in a great World Cup. Actually for me all world cups are great so lemme just get started.
Yay Africa
Jabulani
The most famous ball ever, right…. right??!!
For me this raises an interesting question on the role of companies in football. No it actually doesn’t. They always make a stupid ball, it just so happens this was the stupidest one that has ever been made. Not much that can be added by me. I’ve heard its too round!!! that’s right scientists said that the ball is too perfect to fly straight so it moves around in the air. The men at NASA, not the North American Saxophone Alliance, added that its too light and maybe too big or something.
The ball was not good. It could have been better. I’m not going to get too negative, it is what it is.
Maradona
There was the now customary attacks at Pele featuring the superb line that Pele should ‘go back to the museum‘, you know what the man is just great, a super entertaining fella. In the game against Germany, it became obvious that he was severely overmatched as a coach. By the way, I’m not a huge fan of Pele as a football mind, or critic or whatever. Maradona wasnt tactically on par with others, Argentina was just emotionally run, without a plan B. They were fun to watch though, I liked them a little. I wanted to see him fulfill his promise, not because I wanted to see him naked but who doesn’t want to see a short fat man running through the streets naked. It’s just funny, that’s all im saying. I don’t actually want to see a short fat man…. naked
5th Best player: The Germans
As was written by one of my favorites, the Germans are dope. I have fallen
Germany!!!
in like with this German team. I’ve never liked a team like i like these guys and especially iv never liked a German team, at all. However these guys were really just too good. that’s all I can say to be honest. I just like the German team, when they beat Uruguay for the tournament 3rd place I was ecstatic, the fact that Klose has more world cup goals than Pele is neither here or there is it….(it’s not) They are collectively my pick for 5th best of the world cup. Golden boot and young player winner Mueller, Ozil, Lahm, Boateng and Khadeira have all been great as well. The future looks very promising.
Paraguay’s Sexy girls
I call her ‘Sex girl’ this not to be mean but because I keep forgetting her name which is seriously weird because she is very attractive. Her name is Dallys Ferreira and as you can see (Probably NSFW) she is very attractive but the story is that she promised if they won the Cup of Worlds, she would have sex with every member of the Paraguayan team.
Paraguay really weeps.
This is the reason why they were so crushed at losing to Spain, I would be. My favorite part of the story is when she says ‘women from her country are honest and ardent‘… Now my grasp of the English Language is not great so I looked up the definition of ardent…. I really feel sorry for Paraguay. Really………….
Though I would be interested to know in what order she would be fulfilling her promise because I would hate to be the 23rd person.
Then there was the female Maradona, though that seems pretty unfair to her considering she looks ok in this image search (its google, but may still be NSFW). Her name? Larissa Riquelme. She also wanted to run naked for the team, she wanted to run naked so much that she is still going to!!!!! Look out for the date. I should move to Paraguay. I now believe that Paraguay has the most Patriotic women in the World…. THE WHOLE WORLD.
South American fake dominance
At the quarter-final stage of the tournament when there still existed the possibility of an all South-American semi-finals, the popular narrative was that this was the all south American World Cup. Fast forward a little and its the European World Cup. In fact Uruguay were literally inches away from leaving in the quarter-finals and this would have been the “No South American World Cup”. The point is that everyone is too quick to proclaim things that don’t exist. The margins in World Cups are so small that everyone who looked smart when they said that South American teams were ‘less tired’ than European teams, look like idiots 4 days later.
North Korea hiring fans.
When I saw this story, I laughed and laughed, then I saw this story and stopped laughing.
He is never going to die.
Then I saw this list and laughed again, kinda. Then I felt sorry for North Koreans. I read that they showed the Portugal game live because they got false hope from the Brazil match. The man is amazing. I’m happy im not North Korean.
4th Best Player: Wesley Sneijder
He scored 5 goals, his team reached the World Cup final and he was the best player on the team (some would say Robben was but they aren’t writing this) Plus he was all round just extremely good. He is 4th in this list just because I felt as though the 3 guys above him were really good not because he wasnt good enough. The man has finally fulfilled his potential this year first with Inter and now with his national team. I even hear talk of a move to Manchester United, which I second as long as we get his Inter form not his sometimes Real Madrid form.
World Cup of Firsts
- The only team that has won in the opposite hemisphere is Brazil and now Spain.
- Spain first team to lose first game and still win Cup.
- South Africa first hosts to not make knock out stages.
- First Spanish trophy.
- I can remember the rest……….
France and Italy
The two defending finalists crashed out embarrassingly. France shamed a nation by acting like french people (im kidding…… im kidding). Though to be honest the french situation has been a mess for the better part of 4 years. Ever since the moment the legendary Zinedine Zidane’s head made great, satisfying contact with an Italians chest, the French national team has been in a constant downward spiral. No one even remembers what happen at Euro 2008 for them, and Domenech should have been fired years ago. Plus Karma was angry that they did not pick Karim Benzema.
I don’t like Italy.
Crazy Referees
This will be remembered for Crazy Refs, or maybe they are normal refs who just performed badly or maybe its an outlier or maybe……….
The World Cup final referee was bashed by many especially the dutch. He was good for the most part. The only contentious point was the Robben ‘foul’ by Puyol. What was funny about this was that if Robben had dived like he normally does he would probably have gotten the foul. Otherwise he had to give all those yellows and that red. Anyone who watched that game can see that he had no choice for most of the cards that he handed out. Howard Webb was fine. I’m not going to go into other refs and their mistakes. It gives me a headache.
3rd Best Player: Diego Forlan
He was named the best player at the tournament.
Forlan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Officially. I have absolutely no problem with this. In fact I encourage it or I condone it or whatever. It was a great choice. I just looked at it and thought it would be silly of me to just copy. The truth is Forlan was fantastic and for his team, he was incredibly important, I have respect and admiration. I felt like the two guys above him on this list were…… Also really good. I was incredibly impressed with his movement, he doesn’t run very fast but his off the ball movement created holes that for his strike partners. He was probably the best player……
Fifa Sucks
This column shows Fifas continued uselessness every month or week or whenever I read it.
Fifa has always been useless and I don’t need to explain. But they had the opportunity to ban Suarez from the rest of the tournament for his handball. His Red Card. They didn’t. I hate Fifa. Though to be honest, Fifa is just the way it should be. FIFA is a corporation, it behaves the way corporations behave. I guess I’m only complaining because I felt like Fifa is supposed to be better. I still hate them and Sepp Blatters face.
African Teams Problems
It’s not all doom and gloom, in fact a surprising country is ‘leading the way‘. We always hope that Africa will get it together and stop some of the corruption or whatever. As this article stated many people feel as though Fifa’s ban on Government intervention may hinder positive change. I don’t blame Fifa because for the most part corrupt associations follow corrupt governments. BUT, how do you stop corruption if the associations are independent of government? who is supposed to intervene when things go wrong? The current system is obviously not working. I would hope for a change but not expect one.
England, Brazil and Argentina.
I already wrote WWW for Brazil and England and dealt with Argentina in my Quarterfinal adventure. This trio of teams all crashed out, like really crashed out. not fake crashing like some other unnamed team. Only Argentina wasnt surprising or as surprising as it could have been. Brazil is the only really surprising one. The English are overrated and always faded.
2nd Best Player: David Villa
I bet this is surprising. I’m just saying. Spain was on Villa’s shoulders for much of this world cup. He scored 5 of their 8 goals in the World Cup. He carried a frontline that was hobbling. I knew Torres was injured. I just knew it. Villa carried it without showing the signs of its toll. He was an energizer bunny and he showed that he will be fantastic in a Barcelona shirt this coming year. ’08 was Torres ’10 was Villa. The weirdest superstar ever. He just looks like a random dude on the street, nothing like the great player he is.
The Vuvuzela
People Keep complaining. No hate.
A Swarm of Bees...
“Small” teams prosper.
New Zealand became the only unbeaten team at the World Cup of 2010. Do I have to repeat that? Yes its true. Algeria were very good. The Asian teams were very good. Japan gave us a blond free-kick specialist, who looked like another blond free-kick specialist. North Korea were very impressive, So were the South (Korea). Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland were all better than I thought they would be. USA… wait is USA a “small” team. Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile were also good and entertaining. The African teams were also close. Really close.
Best Player: Bastian Schweinsteiger.
I have to justify my choice, otherwise I just look like a fool.
Step aside Beckham..
The title best is really not what it is. I should call it favorite but then Wesley Sneijder wouldn’t be included and Wayne Rooney would be first. I thought that Bastian was excellent in the centre of the German midfield. When he first came to professional football, he played as a winger at Bayern. He has slowly been molded into a central midfielder and his fighting spirit in the centre of the German midfield was a large part of why they were so good. He is my “best” player for this world cup. My new favorite Number 7.
The Winner.
Was Spain the best team at this World Cup? I’m not sure. Spain was the winner so maybe that doesn’t matter. After watching them in this tournament I feel as though they are the second best team, after Brazil. not saying they don’t deserve to win though because they were very good. and they stepped up when they had to. I just cant help but feel as though Brazil were the best at this World Cup. In the final, the introduction of Fabregas made Spain so much better. It was impressive, the way the played with him on. Spain fought this World Cup out and I shouldnt nitpick them. I still don’t like them.
I love football.
- New Zealand is the only unbeaten team at this World Cup.
- A World Cup in Africa!!!!!!!!!!!!
- We don’t want the Olympics.
- It’s never the players fault: blame the manager, blame the referee and blame the octopus.
- Time difference is a biatch.
- Fifa sucks.
- Time for the Tour de France.
- How cheesy is “Friends”?
- I want to complain about Diving, but that’s hating.
- Next season kicks off in almost exactly a month.
Oranje
What they did in the Semi-
The Netherlands were not great in the semi final. They were good enough. Good enough was good enough on a day Uruguay were missing their captain, their goalscorer and one of their best midfielders. I have hated the Dutch and their facial expressions but in that game they redeemed themselves to me because I felt like they fought it out and deserved a win.
What they need to do in the Final-
They have to go after the Spanish. They really have to hassle the Spanish in the middle. The Germans sat back way to far for way too long in that game, at one point they had two lines of 4 standing just outside their penalty box, that is way too many people waiting for the Spanish. The Dutch will have to step up and push the Spanish back like the Paraguayans did very impressively. I’m worried about their 1 striker set up, with Robben in support. The Spanish are going to be hard to counter-attack if the Dutch sit too deep because the gap between goals will be too big to cover, without the Spanish midfield catching up, even with the Dutch pace.
La Furia Roja
What they did in the Semi-
They dropped Torres, which was an excellent move. Let me just say Torres is a fantastic striker, fantastic. We use that word on too many people these days but he is that. He is not fit, I’m sure of it. So anyway without him the Spanish could move the ball around quicker and took advantage of the Germans showing them too much respect. At times it looked like the Spanish were Mike Tyson and the Germans were some other guy, they had no idea what was going on, they couldn’t get the ball off the Spanish, a worse defensive team would have been in bigger trouble. Towards the end of the game, Pedro got an outlet pass and had Torres wide open and he tried to be smart and lost the ball, then asked the referee for a foul. I would send him home for that. I hate that. This is why I love Iniesta, He gives up the ball. What Pedro did was just stupid. It was so obviously selfish, there is no excuse for that. I wouldn’t send him home but I now hate that dude when previously I didn’t have any negative feelings. Whatever.
What they need to do in the Final-
Play the way they play.
Other Random thoughts
- The Spanish starting line-up had 7 Barcelona players. Including Villa who just signed.
- It’s funny how much the Dutch team hates Robben and van Persie and how much the German team hated Podolski.
- Xavi had his first great game in the semis, bodes well for Spain.
- Karma is always watchin’.
- Everyone is calling the Spanish goal, “un-spanish”. What?
- Still love Germany but they gave too much respect to Spain.
- Youth systems in Spain and Germany need to be copied.
- I made the stupid mistake of forgetting that contrasting football styles cancel each other out.
- Great goal by van Bronkhoarst or whatever.
- Imagine if van Bronkhoarst lifts the World Cup? He is the Captain. Imagine……
- If Xavi lifts the World Cup… he is like 5’3, He is the Captain right?
- Lastly, who watches women’s golf?
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