Matrix Reloaded: 4 More Years!!!!!
I took the advice of the French lawyer, and replayed the final. I advise all of you to do the same. It will only crystalize the depth, class and honor of our performance. Not only were we the best team in the tournament (in the true sense of the word team, unlike those who foolishly relied on a talisman or two, ahem….) — but re-watching the final makes it soothingly and convincingly clear that we dominated the first 60 to 70 minutes of the game, and thereafter deftly shut down France in the comfort our airtight defensive half. Both teams were out of gas come the end of the contest, and so France surely had the advantage going to PKs, or so they had thought. We all know what happened there: surgical precision by Messers Pirlo, Materazzi, Del Piero, DeRossi, and Grasso.
Nonetheless, in the 60th minute, the goal scored by Toni was absolutely, unequivocally masterful; it is a crying shame that it won’t be heralded as the goal that stuck the knife in. I am still in utter disbelief that match officials allowed France to knock-out Brasil on the exact same kind of passive offside goal, but were inhospitable to us. I think the French lawyer should be mindul of what he asks. Replaying the final will only underscore in neon lights the legitimacy and richness of our victory.
But whatever. Zidane was a tomfool for reacting with his head? No that can’t be right…. Well, you know what I mean. While watching the game live on the now world-famous 9th of July, my father-in-law said to me, “What could [Materazzi] possibly have said to warrant such violence? Your mother is a whore? I screwed your sister last night? I didn’t answer him ragazzi, as his queries were purely rhetorical– we both understood that NOTHING anyone says to you in a match can remotely justify an act of violence such as Zidane’s. You learn that in youth leagues. Poor Zidane. What day is it anyway?
FOUR MORE YEARS!!!! FOUR MORE YEARS!!! No, I’m not calling for President Bush to stay on (heaven, much less the constitution, forbid), but I’m referring to the wonderful fact that we will wine & dine with the glorious cup for almost half a decade!!! Ohhhhh what sweet redemption for our beloved Azzurri –who were sent home in 98 by France’s penalty kicks (after a regulation that was refereed with shameless, host-country bias) only to be shafted by Eduardo Moreno in Korea four years later. We azzurri know what it’s like to HAVE TO WAIT four more years. We’ve waited 8 for this. And now, respectfully, the non-azzurri, or judging from the likes of Jane & imbecilic Co, the anti-azzurri, will simply have to wait….
You can call it what you like, but whatever you may say, it cannot faintly alter the golden reality that is this: we will bask together in the warm sun with pride and honor for AT LEAST four years, with a fourth star neatly fastened to our chests, 4-ever!!!!!
FOURZA Italia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hello all -
I think I lost it last night with that guy Marco fran. You would know I normally let people say their piece but last night I just had some wank*r annoy the shit out of me in the pub, you know the usual shit you get when a whinging immigrant opens his/her mouth. When I saw Marco fran’s opening statement about the alleged persecution by the Irish media … well you know my reaction.
Sorry about that guys.
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Irish! whats happening player?
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Joseph from Malta -
Hey joe -
I’ve got to tell you mate, nobody reads your poem anymore. Too much rhyme & rhetoric.
Say something worth replying to for crying out loud
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Schizo Sunny-
Just cruising along….
I hope I didn’t put Marco fran off posting..he wasn’t that bad, at least he had an opinion.
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Bruce -
Leave Jane alone.. at least she researches her topics. Okay now and again she kicks the ball so far out of the park you couldn’t be bothered chasing it but at least she gets her facts straight and consistently talks football. Can you imagine how boring this could be for her ’cause we know shit!
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He was annoying!
Irish I think we pretty much run these blogs, if anyone disagrees with us, then they get shi*. Some of these idiots don’t even have an opinion or they just don’t know enough about football. Joseph needs to hit the poetry blogs, don’t know what hes doing in here anyway. Your poems are wack Joseph! you need some profanities in them.
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That is possibly true but boring!!!!
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The Juve affair:
Jane gaciously - or not so graciouly
- asked for an opinion.
Bruce “reminded” her that this is the World Cup Blog….or something to that effect, his words are too mumbled (that poem he wrote after a dozen of mine wasn’t written by him
….
well, here’s my take dear JANE:
Juve got the brunt of the punishment scheme, while others were sent-off in a lighter fashion.
Although I have read & read & read & read (did I say I raed alot?), I still belive that we - the general public- know VERY LITTLE about the real facts & details.
Example: if most of the intercepted phone calls seemed to indicate that Juve was the club whose managers (M. & G.) tried most to influence the designation of referees etc….
THEN it would *seem* just that Juve would take the severest punishment.
BUT what about other clubs? were there any phone calls being tapped, & if not….why not?
what about the premise that in fact M. G.’s efforts had LITTLE EFFECT on the matches, some of which Juve actually either lost, or went thru considerable difficulty before losing or maybe getting a draw?
Shouldn’t the managers have taken the major punishments, & Juve given -17 points in Seie A?
Who knows the JUST answers to these questions? I don’t pretend to know.
My message to all: let’s keep an open mind, as free of the distortion of the media (especially envious non-Italian media) as possible.
Speaking of the Italian media JANE:
even today’s “giornali” & publications don’t all agree. Libero, for example, has called it a scandalous “let-off”.
Let’s all keep an open mind & see.
Remember (little boy Bruce listen to this) Italy were BRAVE & correct enough to actually do someyhing when the authorities suspected sometting fishy….
….that’s a great commendation in my book for being able to muster the will to cleanse its system.
What about other countries….?
Argentina…..ha-ha, don’t make me laugh.
Congrats to Hungary, who had the guts to put Ferencvaros, the 105-year most prestigious side, into 2nd division for financial irregularities.
Who knows, Jane, Irishdowunder: maybe we’ll see a cleaner Football; maybe FIFA (one of the most guilty parties of all….ask the Swiss government) will follow the Italian example & try to cleansae itself….at least begin!
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I told you Bruce the boy Irish will come at ya!
Now let this be a lesson to you, next time you try to type something clever, think first.
Jane knows more than you will ever know about fooball.
Irish thats another one we’ve put to rest.
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Give it up Joseph for fu** sake.
Irish I’m outta here, going out for an indian tonight.
But make sure you keep these fools in check ![]()
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Joe -
I knew you had something to say…. Good “onya” mate. Now all you have to do is make sense!!!(lol)
You’re right, one corrupt entity can’t correct/criticise another. If I understand you properly; I think I said it on another thread that Italy is the first in the open…more will follow.
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Later Schizo Sunny
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To dear Bruce:
You want me to stop writing to you
to that I might agree too
responding to such a pea-brain
is so futile & vain
after all what can you do?
that’s besides sucking a kangaroo
with all your Aussie cowardice
my host country you try to dismiss
ahh well you simply can’t respond
your knowledge not that profond
you googled “Malta” & what you found
is misbased from top to ground
but I won’t defend from isults like these
I’ll leave that to the Maltese
seeing you despair on this blog
wallow in mud like an Aussie hog
it really makes my day
that I want to keep my stay
it’s so easy to pick your brains
your mind smaller than bacteria strains
so easy to drag you out
& take the piss out of your clout
Bruce I pity you & your goat
your ass-fu%king has stunted your growth
at times I feel a bit apprenhensive
it’s so easy to put you on the defensive
you’re such a little cry-baby
infantile surely not maybe
I enjoy increasing your scorn
to pieces your post I have torn
to me you are simply no match
you’re simply a lonely little wretch
insulting everyone here on this thread
while you wank in your bed
to you this is just a mental masturabtory fantasy
wanking while typing is your ecstasy
so no, little Bruce I won’t go away
I will re-enter the foray
your Aussie ass I will kick
whenever you’re a little prick
weep oh weep, over that Lucas Neil
I wonder how you feel
kicked out og the World Cup
by Neil’s elbow going up
but of course like Aussie losers
beggars just can’t be choosers
fate has reawrded Oz even more
so stop wailing like a whore
just remember you’re on the Italy blog
so it’s you who should go back to the bog
you don’t realize you’re out of place
that’s a reality that should hit your face
but you wouldn’t know it anyway
you’re too rabid, full of dismay
try stopping all that bestiality
maybe you’ll regain your sense of reality
but again you’re a hopeless cause
you’re caught in the “if’”s, “but”s & “because”
now go to sleep little boy
your Italian nightmare I hope you enjoy
****
4 stars
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Bloody hell Joe - NO MORE POEMS.
“I’m not a poet and didn’t know it” to paraphrase
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Irishdownunder:
I’m going to try to look at the positive side to this:
maybe Italy will be the precursor to a cleaner sport in other countries….as well as in other sports?
The bad example popular sportsmen give has a great impact on fans worldwide; & not only on children.
Famous people & sportsmen/women sometimes forget what a responsibility they have, with today’s globalization of the media.
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Joe -
Furthermore Bruce is Italian/Australian… he was happy Italy won he may have just wanted a better win!
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We all screw up Joe .. that is an important thing for people to remember. How we carry on from there is what makes the deference.
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C’mon Irish, Bruce is an incoherent imbecile. We won against all odds: bogus PK, disallowed goal, and had to win on penalties–> true azzurri fans know the nature of that monkey on our backs (bigger than Bruce)…. For Bruce to derive anything but pure joy from our win demonstrates he’s no true blue Italian. Anyway Irish, I know you like to chum it up with brucey from time to time, but let’s call a spade a spade, eh laddie?
@ Jane, you’ve come around a bit. Nice to hear some pH-friendly comments from you. I mean that as a compliment. Incidentally, I just posted a “Veni Vidi Vici” reprise so that the gang could meet there again…. Let’s hope it works.
Joe FM– did Bruce really steal someone else’s poem?
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i don’t plagiarise, the poem is mine all mine - this is my last post, have to move on in life.
All the best to everyone. it was fun. no hard feelings, please.
ciao amici
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Guys I don’t care what you say but there will always be corruption in sport, as to what level who knows. It is to big money making business nowadays. You have horse doping etc you have illegal drugs in Olympics you have match fixing in football. While they are trying to make a stand in Italy, good on them,I don’t for one minute think it will end. Yes it will go quiet for a while but you watch it will rear it’s ugly head somewhere again and I don’t think it will be long and not necessarily in Italy. If anyone tries to tell me it isn’t going on elsewhere (maybe not to the greater extent as Series A) then I would tell them they are a fool.
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Josh how sweet of you,I really am a nice person (who just enjoys football) just because some seem to think I’m not is their problem. Thankyou for sorting or restarting the blog. Have a nice day.
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Spot on Jane; and look at the Greeks for christsake!! Running the sport with government funds!!! Those dirty Greeks.
People in the office here have asked me throughout the cup, what’s up with the scandal? how shameful, etc. My response:
if you think that this type of activity occurrs only in Italy, you’re gorssly mistaken; it occurs all over the world, including the premiership, la liga, bundesliga, etc. The Italians were just a little too careless or flamboyant, and got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Oh well.
Good for my beloved Roma!!!
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Josh, no disrespect but the Americans always turn a blind eye to corruption, even find excuses for it and if you look back through the olympics their sports people must be well up the ladder for dope testing.Yes as you say what has been going on in Italy has probably been going on for a long time and somebody has gotten sloppy. I am sure it is going on everywhere else and only time will dig the other countries out. Corruption doesn’t stop just cause you fine and demote a few teams and make a song and dance about it. It is everywhere, insider trading, buying ‘titles’ in the house of lords, buying political appointments, it stinks but at the end of the day the fans and players suffer and the big shots loose a few thousand in their pockets.
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when I supported Italy at the beginning…..everyone laughed at me as they supported brasil or argentina or england……..
my happiest moment of life was the late two goals by grosso and del pierro…………..
long live ITAly
long live NEPAL
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How funny it is to review what people wrote in a moment of unbridled fury and without any measure of repent.
Hopefully we will see a different kind of blogging when the Euro 2008 comes to a glorious end.
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