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meretricula ([personal profile] meretricula) wrote2011-01-06 07:58 pm
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yet another service advisory notice

leaving for Paris for the weekend, probably won't have internet at all until I get back on Sunday. as per usual, if something happens and you think I'd like to know about it, link in the comments! you all were great when I went to Poland. :)

VAMOS RAFA
AJDE SRBIJA
PLEASE STOP SUCKING LIVERPOOL (ALSO FIRE ROY HODGSON)
GET WELL SOON BB SILVA, WE NEED YOU
GOOOOOOO VILLARREAL
VISCA EL BARÇA, VISCA CATALUNYA

I think that covers everything!

[identity profile] mardia.livejournal.com 2011-01-10 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, if there's anybody who I want, once they retire, to write and publish a no-holds-barred, air-all-the-dirty-laundry type of autobiography, it's Iker Casillas. I always get the sense he could say a LOT about playing for Real Madrid if he chose to, but I doubt he ever will. (Not that I'm doubting his loyalty to that club at ALL.) As for his relationship with Mou, I really don't know--I remember him saying once that the team might belong to Flo Perez, but the players belong to Mourinho, which seems like a ringing endorsement, except that it happened, if I recall correctly, when Mou was the closest yet to a public disagreement with Perez and the club, so you kind of expect the team captain to back up the manager, particularly when Mourinho appeared to be sticking HIS neck out on behalf of the team. I do definitely get the vibe that Iker is still a bit tetchy regarding the way that the whole Ronaldo vs Carbonero mess happened, and the response of the club to it. IDK, I think mostly it's a difference of temperament--Iker has never struck me as a dude who loves having drama play out in public.

As for Mourinho, you're right, there are very few managers who can pull that kind of thing off. I'd add possibly Sir Alex Ferguson to that very short list of "managers with 'TUDE", but SAF has a few advantages that Mourinho won't have, at Real Madrid or anywhere else--Ferguson is very much of the "establishment", he's been at the same club for years and years, and he also, frankly, has the advantage of being British in a league that still, IMO, has something of a anti-foreign bias. With Mourinho, it's ALL force of personality.

As for the Villarreal game--oh, for God's sake, Mou, REALLY? Really, now. Like you, I hate being skeptical about that, I do not doubt at all his love for his family, but even unamadridista agreed, he should have known better. It's not like this is the first game of the season, after all--I don't even know if this is the first time that RM has come back to win the game this season. He shouldn't have done it, end of story--and as for his complaints that nobody gives him the benefit of the doubt--dude, look at your record. When you (deliberately) troll like that, you don't get "benefit of the doubt".

And HEEE, I knew somebody had linked that on tumblr, but I didn't realize it was you! Apologies, apologies.