I thought in my myopic state that I'd mistakenly spotted Gabriel Heinze getting super pissed after Argentina scored against Mexico earlier today, but Yahoo News is on hand to reassure me that it's only my eyesight which is wonky at the moment.
It'd have been funnier if the camera guy had lamped him back.
Football's England's coming home.
Sadly for Ingur-land 1966 was 44 years ago and there's no Azerbaijani linesman on hand to award England a goal.
I'm half-blind at the mo' but even I can see the comic value in this YouTube clip from Portuguese TV.
Blood, guts and buckets of swearing. If only the English team were half as stereotypically English as Capello.
Did Stuart Pearce ever let anyone shoulder barge him like that on the football field? Psycho's lost it.
Hat tip to a Guardinista currently living in Lisbon.
The following under reported story has already been spotted on Louis Proyect's blog and over at Socialist Unity blog but the text cut and pasted below is from the Shiraz Socialist blog:
Ian W writes:
We are bombarded daily by the World Cup. The organisers of the event claim that it is non-political, yet it is dominated by large multinatonal corporations.
Here you can see a photograph of the Argentine football team holding a banner. This photo has been effectively censored by the international press and Toutube has also blocked it. Why?
The banner simply states that the members of the football team support the call for the for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who are these mothers? They are the mothers of young men and women who “disappeared” during the Dirty War carried out by the Argentine Military Junta between 1976 and 1983.
An estimated 30,000 “disappeared”, that is were killed, because they were socialists, communists, trade unionists, community organisers, students, activists and so on who opposed the military dictatorship. Some of these young women had babies, about 500 in total, who were not returned to their natural families to live with their grandparents as their own parents had been killed. The babies were given to military families who supported the dictatorship.
One day a week between 1977 and 2006 the Mothers, now grandmothers, would walk around the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires demanding to know what had happened to their children. They even did this during the dictatorship and for their bravery three of the mothers also disappeared, that is were killed, for daring to question the military dictatorship.
The present football team now supports the call for these mothers to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
I'm sure you'll agree that it is one of the more heartening stories from in and around this current World Cup.
More info on the story at the following link. (You may have to use babelfish to translate it.)
Can we have an England Germany World Cup downfall video before Sunday please?
It's expected.
. . . . because the bastard dog broke the frames of my glasses yesterday. I can't see a bloody thing.
Oh, this interactive World Cup wall chart is wonderful. It appeals to my inner geek that I usually hide away from public view so successfully.
As I failed in finding a decent World Cup magazine at my local Barnes and Noble to provide me with all the basic details of fixtures, stats and venues, this will come in very handy over the next few weeks.
Hat tip to the banksyboybrief blog for the heads up on this wonderful bit of electronic wizardry, and an extra garnish of kudos to him, also, for the above image.
Of course it's not my image. Why would I be honing in on the England fixtures when Japan are in this year's World Cup?
