There are two kinds of people in the world:
Those who actually look at the foul and those who reckon the lad went down very theatrically there, John.
Read more...April 28, 2010
April 19, 2010
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So Sport Is A TV Show has been nominated for an EPL Talk award, which is very nice and all that.
Voting is open to you, you beautiful chunk of reader you. With that in mind, I urge you to head over there and not vote for us. Yes, not vote for us. To be honest, if you were all to vote for us, the landslide victory would be, well, embarrassing. Plus we might get full of ourselves like the British Labour party after the 1997 election. I've already been scouting for locations to build a giant tent commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the day Arsenal clinched the 1991 championship. Do you want that on your conscience? DO YOU?
So pick one of the other blogs and vote for them: if not out of respect for our sense of modesty, then at least out of pure pity for the proprietors of those other sites, some of whom, I'm told, are not entirely repellent. Then we can watch the results roll in, clock our meagre haul and bask in the moral victory. Which is what sport is about, isn't it? Read more...
April 8, 2010
*sigh*
Here's a goal you may have seen once or twice before. The second replay here is my favourite way to watch it, because you get to properly see the two best parts. First: the way that, after Messi beats the first set of challenges and sprints into the space behind, the defenders converge on where they wish he was, a panicked swarm which contrasts with the second, better, delight: once Messi is through on the keeper, he not only slows down but seems to switch into another mode altogether. He's just legged it for fifty yards, dodged two lunging tackles and is about to face the ultimate moment of this already extraordinary passage, and he looks — just for a second or two — as if he's all alone, nowheres in particular, doing nothing special. A football game is a swirling sequence of pockets of space expanding and contracting; the energy spent in trying to shut these spaces down makes their serial exploitation a pressing concern, a ferociously difficult task. And the penalty area is, of course, the most fiercely defended patch on the field. The not-incorrect but humdrum explanation for this moment (hah! humdrum!) might be that he was facilitating his next move — fucking with the keeper's head, essentially. And I'm sure that there is some stuff about how elite athletes experience time differently to merely excellent ones that would fit just nicely here. But when I recall this goal, this is the moment I think of: when Messi created a bubble apart from what surrounded him before returning to our world. Read more...
April 6, 2010
April 2, 2010
8-1. 8-bloody-1
On the occasion of us finding this wonderful 2000 Michael Palin interview at the When Saturday Comes website, here again is the "Golden Gordon" episode of his Ripping Yarns series. I say "again" because, as a few of you may remember, it was posted here some time ago; however, the uploader has since been taken away to be re-educated, and his/her videos have disappeared. Luckily, someone else has submitted it, and in view of the fact that the SIATVS header is culled from said episode (an idea we nicked off these chaps), it would be wrong not to have it available here. Part one is above; subsequent parts are after the jump.
(By the way: does anyone know which teams are featured in the footage at the beginning of the episode? And what grounds the games are being played in? I would guess that the team in the white-sleeved shirts might be Arsenal, and the aerial shot at the end of the montage is obviously Wembley.)
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