Starting A Sentence Without Knowing How It's Going To Finish
Once again, yesterday revealed that commentators start sentences with little idea how they're going to finish them.
From Portugal v Iran:
"Cristiano Ronaldo, who loves playing for his country as much as anyone..."
From Ghana v Czech Republic:
"They'll be loving this across Africa, watching the game at petrol stations across the continent... you can just picture it."
From USA v Italy:
"The referee's giving a lot of free kicks, but he's from Uruguay, so he'll be used to that."
"Kasey Keller's an intelligent man: he actually wears glasses off the field and he enjoys grunge and garage music."
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There are two ways to play football at this World Cup: slowly, cagily and tentatively with tactics that seem to be so ingrained that they suffocate the team's natural abilities (like England), or all-out-attack, going for the win, playing quickly and a little riskily. Actually, there's a third way, too: Argentina.
The second way has been prevalent over the last couple of days and has "brought the tournament to life". I'm mainly talking about the games between Holland and the Ivory Coast and then yesterday's between the Czechs and Ghana. Yesterday's game in particular was incredibly exciting. Even with 10 men, the Czechs managed to keep running, they kept making chances and they kept taking risks. The Ghanans were brilliant.
These teams play with such flair and pace that they seem to put England in the shade. We thought we were good before the tournament started, but I don't think anyone realised just how good everyone else is. We seem slow, predictable and devoid of ideas in comparison.
Anyway, bring on more games like yesterday's.
From Portugal v Iran:
"Cristiano Ronaldo, who loves playing for his country as much as anyone..."
From Ghana v Czech Republic:
"They'll be loving this across Africa, watching the game at petrol stations across the continent... you can just picture it."
From USA v Italy:
"The referee's giving a lot of free kicks, but he's from Uruguay, so he'll be used to that."
"Kasey Keller's an intelligent man: he actually wears glasses off the field and he enjoys grunge and garage music."
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There are two ways to play football at this World Cup: slowly, cagily and tentatively with tactics that seem to be so ingrained that they suffocate the team's natural abilities (like England), or all-out-attack, going for the win, playing quickly and a little riskily. Actually, there's a third way, too: Argentina.
The second way has been prevalent over the last couple of days and has "brought the tournament to life". I'm mainly talking about the games between Holland and the Ivory Coast and then yesterday's between the Czechs and Ghana. Yesterday's game in particular was incredibly exciting. Even with 10 men, the Czechs managed to keep running, they kept making chances and they kept taking risks. The Ghanans were brilliant.
These teams play with such flair and pace that they seem to put England in the shade. We thought we were good before the tournament started, but I don't think anyone realised just how good everyone else is. We seem slow, predictable and devoid of ideas in comparison.
Anyway, bring on more games like yesterday's.
posted by Me @ 11:57 am
1 Comments:
At 12:55 pm,
Jonny said…
I hope so, especially as I have missed all the good ones.
Isn't it about time one of the early games is a classic so as to help us out down here. Oh, hang on, the first Aussie game was class.
The thing is, I'm out tonight in Bondi so assuming I get the last ferry back I'll be missing the first half of Japan vs Croatia, and both teams need a win.
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