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November 18th, 2009
November 3rd, 2009
05:21 pm - Today's Romanian headline
Ooh, I'll just bet he is. Poor Christi, he must be exhausted.
( The accompanying photo just makes it worse )
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October 27th, 2009
02:04 pm - Manics/football crossovers
While searching for something MSP-related, I came across this completely at random on a football forum. The cruel ones are the best. (But shouldn't it be "My Big Empire"?)
"The Football/Music Crossover Continues With The Manics
There's plenty more where these came from, but they've released several albums and my lunch won't eat itself:
Mike 'Everything Must Go' Ashley
Newcastle 'From Despair To Where' United (there were a few of these 'Second Great Depression', 'She Is Suffering'...)
Christiano 'The Girl Who Wanted to be God' Ronaldo
The Premier League 'Further Away' Bottom Half
Tim 'Australia' Cahill
Phil 'Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier' Brown
Michael 'Another Invented Disease' Owen
Didier 'You Love Us' Drogba
David 'Stay Beautiful' Beckham
Adrian 'Drug Drug Druggy' Mutu
Gareth 'Life Becoming a Landslide' Southgate
Gabriel 'Faster' Agbonlahor
Gareth 'Yourself' Barry
Joey 'The Intense Humming of Evil' Barton
Dean 'Send Away The Tigers' Windass
Roman 'My Little Empire' Abramovich
Tony 'Donkeys' Adams
Titus 'I Live To Fall Asleep' Bramble
Robbie 'I'm Just a Patsy' Savage
Jamie 'If You Tolerate This Norwegian Referee Then Your Children Will Be Next' Redknapp - okay, so I edited that one a bit.
Andy, Toon Fan"
I'm strongly tempted to turn this into a meme now. MATCH UP YOUR FOOTBALLER WITH THE APPROPRIATE SONG TITLE. Any band goes.
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October 21st, 2009
10:22 pm - *Sigh of irritation*
I'm afraid my mega-posh computer is down again (the PSU needs replacing and the new one will take a day to arrive), so I'm on the sweet little old 2CV of a machine. I can access the internet, rather slowly, but I can't read my email; so if you've emailed me or left a comment and I haven't replied, that's why. I'll catch up with everything when I'm back on the other PC, promise.
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October 19th, 2009
03:05 pm - Master list of José Mourinho features
People who know me will no doubt be aware that I quite like Mojo. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lisachonando asked to see my collection of interviews, so here is the full list.
( Read more... )
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October 17th, 2009
07:35 pm - Squeals of joy
I was still trying to get over Melo and Vargas's very public foreplay when I switched over to Poli and discovered that PANTI IS CAPTAIN!!!! \o/
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October 7th, 2009
08:12 pm - I saw this and thought of Angua
As a vegan I officially disapprove of this, but I'm still allowed to boggle at the logistics. How.
In further dubious animal-related news, a woman in Skye is making bird food out of midgies. If this idea gets through to the energy people, they may well come up with a solution to the oil crisis.
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September 29th, 2009
September 23rd, 2009
04:58 pm - Strangely-named teams, part CXVII
Poli are playing Sanitation Cluj, who have "Servicii Publice" written on their shirts. My mum finds this strangely hilarious...
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September 8th, 2009
04:50 pm - I saw this and thought of you.
Ruby, I await your opinion with interest.
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August 26th, 2009
07:38 pm - Poli-Stuttgart, return leg
ZOMG HERE IT IS.
Refereed by Rosetti, of course, which makes it strangely disappointing that Dan's not playing; that confrontation might have triggered the Apocalypse. And been incredibly slashy
YOU HAVE DONE INCREDIBLY WELL EVEN GETTING TO THIS STAGE, LADS. FORTA POLI.
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August 24th, 2009
03:36 pm - Dan Alexa: "I am a tough player and I don't want to change"
Nicknamed "The Surgeon" for his extraordinary aggressiveness, the 29-year-old Poli Timisoara midfielder Dan Alexa left the team with ten men for the final five minutes of the game with Unirea Urzicenii and will not play the next two Liga 1 games. Alexa is also suspended for the return match with VFB Stuttgart in the play-offs of the Champions League, all for accumulated cards.
"I got crazy about the first yellow, but I deserved the second one. I don't think I was wrong, I made that foul because it was good for the team at that time. I know I have a reputation as an aggressive player and I've got used to it. I'm a tough player and I don't want to change now, near the end of my career. The nickname 'Surgeon' doesn't bother me, it's like my third name."
*Hold face in hands* Oh, Dan, AS IF anyone expected you to change at this point... He's accumulated three yellow cards in the first three games of the season, and the papers are speculating enthusiastically on whether he'll beat last year's record, in which he got his first nine yellows in only 19 games. Dan's response? "I don't have a problem with the cards, I can control them." Course you can. :p
This left me wondering what the football record is for the fastest nine yellows. I couldn't find it, but I did find the Premier League player with the most cards. It was, with terrible inevitability, Patrick Vieira. XD
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04:28 am - The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator
It's great.
(Plus, trust me to get the only one that actually makes sense:
XD!!! Erm, yes. Yes, I think the plot device they mention there is the only logical outcome of such a pairing!)
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August 18th, 2009
07:36 pm - Poli-Stuttgart
Starts in about ten minutes. *Bites nails*
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August 12th, 2009
August 5th, 2009
08:31 pm - *Shrieks* WE'VE WON!!!
POLI HAVE ELIMINATED SHAKHTAR FROM THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!!!
*Sits back, stunned* Even I didn't really see that coming. Panti, you are a god.
...Werder Bremen must hate us so fucking much just now.
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July 31st, 2009
08:43 pm - Great.
Mutu's been fined £17 million and Bobby Robson's died :[ This is shaping up to be a GREAT day. (And yes, I have only just got up.)
Not only have we lost a Co. Durham legend, José had to go and make me weep:
Mourinho said: "I didn't talk with him in the last two months because it was hard for me. It was hard for me because I didn't want to think that he was dying, it wasn't that image of Bobby Robson that I wanted to keep forever, it wasn't that voice that I wanted to hear. I wanted, and I will always keep it with me, the Bobby Robson of every day, a man with an extraordinary passion for life and football, with extraordinary enthusiasm. Bobby Robson is one of those people who will never die, not just for what he did in his career, for a victory more or a victory less, but for everything that he gave to those who like me were lucky to know him and walk by his side. My thoughts and embrace go to his loved ones."
Oh, OUCH. Poor Special, I just want to give him a hug.
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July 17th, 2009
11:48 am - Champions League
POLI ARE PLAYING SHAKHTAR DONETSK IN ROUND 3. OMG OMG OMG.
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July 9th, 2009
12:29 pm - Fiorentina-Aston Villa dilemma
All right. I need some help on this one. The situation: Fiorentina are playing a friendly with Aston Villa in Birmingham on the 8th of August. Though this is a three-hour train journey away from me, the tickets are surprisingly cheap and I can’t help thinking it might be fun. However, the concept provokes certain logistical problems, mostly involving cameras.
If I go to the match:
• Do I have to take a scarf/banner/vuvuzela, or do I just wear purple?
• Do I just go and watch the match, or do I take photos as well?
• Will there be a good vantage point from which to take photos?
• Do I just go straight home afterwards, or do I wait out the back for the players so I can demand their autographs, à la Manics gig?
Various Kellie-like people will no doubt be saying at this point, OMG YES TAKE YOUR CAMERA PHONE. Alas, I do not have a camera phone. I have a heavy and extremely expensive DSLR, and to get some good shots of the distant players I would need to buy a telephoto lens; not much of an imposition, admittedly, since I want one anyway, but it would add to the weight and expense. And yes, if some chav nicked my camera I could claim insurance, but that’s a complication I don’t need. So the question is:
Poll #1427267
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5Do I lug my camera to Birmingham to take large and beautiful photos of la Viola?
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09:55 am - Birfdays
Happy birthday, Conny! :D Hope it's a good one.
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