by the way i don't know if it's still on All 4 but the Diego Maradona documentary is really good stuff― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Monday, March 23, 2020 7:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Monday, March 23, 2020 7:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
thx for this noodle. watched it today, cracking stuff, tho in a time of social distancing some of the diego being mobbed in the streets wobbly hand cam footage freaked me out a little. know it's not an original thought but oh to see a peak maradona playing on 2020 pitches under 2020 rules. the number of terrible tackles he just rode and stumbled onward from was amazing.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
i know! it's a really well put together film. watching the clogging he routinely got, and you think about cliches about Italian defending but imagine how much worse the average shitkicker was in England at the time. tbh i'd never spent so much time just watching how incredible his movement and control was
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
it's really good at opening a window into the ways football is seen and played and thought about outside the anglo bubble as well i think, which i'm as guilty of as any lazy tv fan
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
i spent a lot of it thinking how much my old man wouldn't have got it, the entire culture would be so alien and bad to him and all of that belied by those clips of him playing
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
i actually found it quite frightening, just impossible to imagine how anyone could deal with that level of adulation and expectation and of course he didn't deal with it. but yeah it was a level of fandom that i am not really familiar with tbh.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
also stuff that is either badly translated or more likely i am not understanding culturally re argentina in that i think more than one contributor possibly his trainer plus a journalist refers to diego as "that little black kid"
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
yeah there are ilxors who'll understand that much better than me but my understanding is that South America has a lot of this kinda racial subdivision expressed thru the language, and then put that thru a translation into English and it won't be clear
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/xRIaHZvjipo
Korean league kicks off in just over 40mins lads.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
League winners Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors vs cup winners Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
The BBC showed this live on iPlayer, don't know how many more Korean games they'll show.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Kohlenpott derby today at 15.30!Heard Sky is giving viewers in Germany the option to add crowd noise to the broadcast lol
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 16 May 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
Wonder who’ll be the first player to be sent off for spitting
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 16 May 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link