argh!

[erastes]

I just heard a news item about the footballers complaining about the newly designed World Cup ball. Apparently it’s hard to control.

*blinks*

Two things occurred to me as I was driving along. First it was a sensible thought: That all the players will have to use the ball, so that levels the playing field, excuse the sports analogy.  Then I just started laughing uncontrollably. IT’S A BALL!! i mean how much design (and presumably a hell of a lot of time, effort, jobs and money) needs to go into designing it.

PLEASE don’t explain. I’m a real sport haterz. Or at least football. Just the words “World Cup” makes me want to emigrate somewhere for four weeks. God knows where though. The Moon, perhaps.

I think I'll create a "World Cup Bingo Card" which you can use for your own country. With things like: "Your star player is injured and is unable to play which gives your country the excuse why you didn’t win."(We are already well ahead of the game there…) "Your country's fans make tits of themselves" (and there)  ""The referee misses a vital opp to give your team a penalty shot." and so on. If I could be bothered and was at all interested. Expect much moaning on this.

Also FIREFLY is on UK tv!  OK - “the horror” channel (for some bizzaro reason) and i don’t GET the horror channel on Freeview but my dad does with his free Sky box. Argh!  Was so good to see it, I’d forgotten how damned good it was.  Must dig out the discs. That will give me something to watch during The Dreaded Month of DOOM.

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Comments

[liebesdammerung.livejournal.com]

Oh the world cup. Sometimes, I would rather have that than what passes for sports in the US and A. Oh well. Hockey is good! lawl

[beckyblack]

How about "Lose one Captain cos he can't keep his hands off his teammates girlfriends." and "Lose another Captain after he's taken out in training by a great useless lump of a fellow player."

Can we have a new rule? "In a collision on the training ground the more important player is to come off better."

I'm sure however we lose it'll be because we were robbed, due to some kind of nefarious double dealings by Johnny Foreigner.

But I've got Brazil in the sweepstake at work, so I might get something from the tournament besides gigantic disappointment and wounded national pride.

Hmm, I need a footy icon...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a writer stabbing a football with a pen...

And yes - "you were robbed being heard on the radio or tv is a wild card, tick any box."

[beckyblack]

No, loads of footy on the telly is great! A great excuse to turn the TV off and do some writing instead. And it encourages men to go down the pub to watch the match, getting them out from under the feet of their writer wives/girlfriends.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I just heard a news item about the footballers complaining about the newly designed World Cup ball. Apparently it’s hard to control.

Where HAVE I seen that complaint before? Oh, I know! Unseen Academicals!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

IT GOES *GLOING*

YAY! that gives me an idea for my world cup icon, at least!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ta da!

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's BRILLIANT!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

his expression kind of sums up my attitude to the game...

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

That's my attitude towards sports in general.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Life Imitates Pratchett. They should be glad it's not a tin can.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

"In my day, all we had was a half a tin can!"

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

No no - this is serious stuff. Jonny had to specify which match ball he kicked with in the last Rugby World Cup...

*is sports nerd*

[fleurrochard]

"Your star player is injured and is unable to play which gives your country the excuse why you didn’t win."(We are already well ahead of the game there…)

You were early, but our (the German) team wanted to overachieve - I think it's three or four players right now? (Or more... I kind of lost count...)