Promise? Promise? Pretty please with sugar on it? If I turn on all the window fans I don't hear any car horns but getting to work tomorrow is not going to be pretty.
Oh yes, right. The JC has already kicked in. I remember the French winning in '98, and all the cousins happily able to faire le pont ie take Monday July 13 off because they won the soccer game, and then Tuesday was a holiday.
But 12 years ago I was in Japan and wouldn't have remembered a thing of the civic paralysis. I *know* Italy won once when I was home. Surely I'm not reaching all the way back to the late 80's? unless I am.
The Johnson Cocktail is also useful for those trying occasions when Italy wins one of their kick-ball cups.
Think I'll need to whip up a couple myself when American Football season starts. They don't call my favorite team "GangGreen" for nothing, you know. *sigh*
(Hmmm...I wonder how many slashy-little fangirls' hearts went a-flutter at that shot of the two Italian teammates lying on the pitch, wrapped around each other in a tight full-body embrace, the one guys leg slipping oh-so-innocently right between the other's? That was...nice.)
Ohh, soccer players, she says airily: cheap BL thrills, all the time. Though I was a *tiny* bit moved by the player who got the goal in the game with Germany crying about it after. Crying when you've lost is neat, but crying when you've won is neater.
The up side is that now I can go to sleep! Football is huge here, and all the matches were televised live so the evning ones were between 2 and 4 in the morning! *yawn*
For some reason I find the matches for 3rd and 4th place more gripping, because sometimes the endgame just becomes too anti-climatic (spelling?) for me to watch.
The default team to watch in our household is England (due to the other online gaming half. ^_~) I can cheer on whoever(whomever?) I wanted once England got sent home. *snigger*
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Eight years, isn't it? They won in '98 IIRC.
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But 12 years ago I was in Japan and wouldn't have remembered a thing of the civic paralysis. I *know* Italy won once when I was home. Surely I'm not reaching all the way back to the late 80's? unless I am.
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*leaf leaf leaf*
1982. Early 80s.
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People will talk about this game more about the head-butt though, than about Italy winning...
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Although, as someone said while watching the game, the ability to knock a man down with only your head is pretty badass.
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Around here no one cares what idiocy sufficed to give Italy the game. Italy got the game. Alas.
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Think I'll need to whip up a couple myself when American Football season starts. They don't call my favorite team "GangGreen" for nothing, you know. *sigh*
(Hmmm...I wonder how many slashy-little fangirls' hearts went a-flutter at that shot of the two Italian teammates lying on the pitch, wrapped around each other in a tight full-body embrace, the one guys leg slipping oh-so-innocently right between the other's? That was...nice.)
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The up side is that now I can go to sleep! Football is huge here, and all the matches were televised live so the evning ones were between 2 and 4 in the morning! *yawn*
For some reason I find the matches for 3rd and 4th place more gripping, because sometimes the endgame just becomes too anti-climatic (spelling?) for me to watch.
The default team to watch in our household is England (due to the other online gaming half. ^_~) I can cheer on whoever(whomever?) I wanted once England got sent home. *snigger*
*yawns some more*