Sunday Sport

[poliphilo]

I didn't watch it. I guessed it would be boring and ugly and it seems I was right. The French got ahead, then played defensively and lost their lead,  so it went to penalities- which is almost as arbitrary as settling it with Eany-meany-miney-mo-  but only  after Zidane got himself sent off  (the highlight of the match) for viciously head-butting an opponent who had tweaked his nipple. 

Sounds like a Guy Ritchie movie (and I hate Guy Ritchie).

What I did watch was the men's final at Wimbledon.  It was a classic clash of personalities- Federer as smooth as cheese fondue and Nadal all bouncy-bouncy, bandanaed aggression like a teenage mutant ninja turtle without the shell. In the event Federer whopped Nadal, but if Nadal had been just a little more tenacious he could have stretched it out into a five set nail-biter. Federer has now won four Wimbledons straight, which makes him one of the greats, but Nadal is learning amazingly fast and is serving him notice-  same time, same place and next year it won't be as easy.

Comments

[beiderbecke.livejournal.com]

i LOVED guy ritchie when i was in 7th grade (7th year? i don't know how it works over there), until i realized that 1) scorsese and tarantino did it first and 2) he's not even really cockney and 3) he's madonna's poolboy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't know quite how these things stack up. Is 7th grade the final year? If so, the British equivalent would be 6th form.

Yeah, Ritchie is a rich kid and went to an expensive private school.

[beiderbecke.livejournal.com]

7th grade is about 12-13 years old, then there's 8th grade and then high school (four years).