Online again
Wooooooohoooooooo.. I am online again. The nicest thing is that today I woke up really early, 8:30 am, and was working on my laptop not expecting any internet action till tomorrow when suddenly everything connected. And of course the first thing I do is blog.
I probably have loads of emails to check, but I can just drop a few comments. Well.. the most important is the disappointment a lot of people, including me, suffered yesterday: Man United lost the FA Cup to Arsenal. The only good thing about this is that I got to watch the match on Aisha's TV. It was exciting, especially with the penalties at the end, and all in all it was good football. But there is always this thing about penalty shoot outs that the better team ends up loosing because of one lousy miss. And I thought the referee liked to talk a little bit too much. Maybe the new American billionaire owner jinxed it, I certainly felt uneasy watching some spectators waving the American flag and chanting "USA.. USA" at the beginning of the match. Anyway, I decided one important thing afterwards: I really really want to go to one of those big matches one day, maybe the FA Cup final next year, which will conveniently be in Wembley? It will defenitely be a great experience worth the 'ridicuously' big sum of money I will have to pay. I know someone will just pay anything and drop everything to come for this, so how about it bro? :) Oh, and preferrably Man United will be one of the teams.
And while Arsenal fans were celebrating yesterday evening, our two Greek Cypriots were also celebrating because Greece won in some singing contest called 'Eurovision'. Technically, it not even their country, but they were ecstatic about it.
Ok.. I need to check a lot of things now, so blog to you later.
p.s.
the cold is a little better, but this cold windy rainy weather is not exactly helping.
Mai
I probably have loads of emails to check, but I can just drop a few comments. Well.. the most important is the disappointment a lot of people, including me, suffered yesterday: Man United lost the FA Cup to Arsenal. The only good thing about this is that I got to watch the match on Aisha's TV. It was exciting, especially with the penalties at the end, and all in all it was good football. But there is always this thing about penalty shoot outs that the better team ends up loosing because of one lousy miss. And I thought the referee liked to talk a little bit too much. Maybe the new American billionaire owner jinxed it, I certainly felt uneasy watching some spectators waving the American flag and chanting "USA.. USA" at the beginning of the match. Anyway, I decided one important thing afterwards: I really really want to go to one of those big matches one day, maybe the FA Cup final next year, which will conveniently be in Wembley? It will defenitely be a great experience worth the 'ridicuously' big sum of money I will have to pay. I know someone will just pay anything and drop everything to come for this, so how about it bro? :) Oh, and preferrably Man United will be one of the teams.
And while Arsenal fans were celebrating yesterday evening, our two Greek Cypriots were also celebrating because Greece won in some singing contest called 'Eurovision'. Technically, it not even their country, but they were ecstatic about it.
Ok.. I need to check a lot of things now, so blog to you later.
p.s.
the cold is a little better, but this cold windy rainy weather is not exactly helping.
Mai
3 Comments:
You do realise that the guys with American flags were Arsenal fans taunting Man U fans, don't you? i.e. it was an expression of anti-Americanism. It's a good example as you can imagine how it could be taken if you didn't have access to the the contextual assumptions you need. I've never seen a team be so dominated in a game and still win. The Arsenal fans were laughing sheepishly afterwards. The general agreement was that it was 'robbery' - or 'we mugged them' as one fan put it.
B-)
Actually I didn't know, I just thought maybe they are some supporters of the deal as opposed to those who had banners saying "Glazer Rot In Hell". Doesn't pragmatics just explain everything? :) Unfortunately, we can't pragmatically justify Man United's loss in any relevant way no matter how hard we try.
I don't think you'll find anyone who thinks the takeover is a good idea, although a lot of people think it was inevitable when they became a public company so that was when they should have started protesting.
I can think of two ways of trying to justify their defeat. You could try 'you have to score to win', or how about 'they've won often enough'? (They have won it more times than anybody else ;-)
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