The Fine Balance
Monday, July 10, 2006
Sometimes it's a good thing in sport for the best team or player not to win. It's refreshing to see a change at the top and keep the match as a contest and not a procession. We love classic encounters of flowing play and free attacking, not a one-sided farce.
Conversely, sometimes the better team has to win in order to do justice to the sport that they're playing. Sometimes fairytales have to come to an end. Sometimes shitty teams that depend on luck or penalties deserve to be shot down as early as possible. Sometimes we need to examine the fact that very few people should be cheering for a country that's on the other side of the world and kicked our country out of the competition (and cheaply at that). We should be vengeful, not joyous.
Let's invade Italy and teach them how to play football. Because they're shit and they don't deserve to win the World Cup. There, I said it.
6 comments to this post
I was with you until I learnt that Italy only conceded 2 goals in the World Cup finals this year...
1 to France in the final on a penalty kick.
1 on an own-goal.
I mean, no-one could score on them. Maybe that means they are the best team in the world?
I'm half Italian and I wanted France to win. Those damn diving bastards.
I agree to the max....
they are a bunch of jew asses!
Jews, the lot of them.
Italy sure had one hell of a goalkeeper to only concede two goals. Buffon came to their rescue on many occasions.
But if that stat alone should win you the Cup, save a thought for Switzerland, who didn't concede any goals all tournament, but was knocked out in a penalty shootout in the round of 16.
Oh, and I would've called the Italians Fascists rather than Jews, but...never mind.
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