yet another service advisory notice

[meretricula]

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!

Comments

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

just so everyone will shut up about it already. Including Arsenal.
there are a number of comms who feel the same way.

i do root for arsenal whenever it doesn't affect our league position, and sometimes even when it does. i can't pretend not to see past their faults though - and this is more to do with the gooner fanbase than the gunners themselves - since as we all know samir nasri is a flawless human being - and more to do with twitter than anybody here on LJ. so, the nature of twitter as a social media tool means that it's very conducive to in-the-moment squee; even more so than tumblr, because macros/gifs can easily go viral whereas your 140-character tweets are unlikely to be retweeted unless you are (a) very famous and/or (b) saying something spectacularly failtastic.

anyway i think that it's perfectly understandable to cuss like a fishwife when your team's trademark beautiful, flowing, open, attacking football is being frustrated by a million-dollar wall. i am a wreck whenever someone parks a double-decker in front of barça, i would know. the thing is, some gooners have this persecution complex that means they buy into this narrative wherein the FA and the english media are out to get them. the refs are under constant scrutiny, the odds are always tilted against arsenal, if only the footballing gods were on their side, etc. i would be a lot more sympathetic if blackpool or sunderland were making such claims tbh. it seems that these gooners want to have their cake and eat it too - they want the reputation and the financial cushion that comes with being a big club, but they also want the underdog mentality that comes with being a small club. and these aren't teenage fangirls on lj - these are respected bloggers, grown-ass adults with jobs and families and shit and it bugs me how they always paint arsenal as the martyr. whew not i've got that off my chest i feel mucho mejor.

ohai there was a point to this comment. right. i came in here to tell you that footballers are IRL trolls true story.

[mardia.livejournal.com]

anyway i think that it's perfectly understandable to cuss like a fishwife when your team's trademark beautiful, flowing, open, attacking football is being frustrated by a million-dollar wall. i am a wreck whenever someone parks a double-decker in front of barça, i would know. the thing is, some gooners have this persecution complex that means they buy into this narrative wherein the FA and the english media are out to get them.

Okay, seriously, WORD. I was personally cussing like CRAZY during the first leg of the Bilbao-Barca Copa del Rey match that ended in 0-0. It was nothing but constant shrieks of "MOVE BITCH GET OUT THE WAY." And of course, Bilbao didn't, much to our collective dismay. But...that was in the moment. Regardless of what the other team is doing, your job is to play well and hopefully score goals. If you didn't score any goals, well then, that's that. It sucks, yes, but it kind of always baffles me, regardless, when someone says during a 0-0 draw, "So-and-so were the better team, they deserved to win." How does that even make sense? Yes, okay, one side can be better than the other, absolutely, but unless they were cheated out of a goal by something other than bad luck/the post, I can't see how you can say "they deserved to win." You know what makes you deserving of a win? SCORING GOALS.

I get how the martyr complex started among the Arsenal fanbase, truly, but that doesn't mean I have to like it or defend it. Trophy-hunt aside, they're one of the biggest, most successful clubs in what is generally agreed to be the most competitive league in the world. Relax already. The media talks shit about everything, it is what they are paid to do.

And the thing is, I have a lot of respect for Arsene Wenger, I find the faces he makes during matches to be as gifworthy as Mourinho's, but that complaint about Man-United's pitch in the wake of the 1-0 loss was ridiculous, flat out. I hate Man United, but on that particular day, their defense was better and they're the ones that ended up putting away the chance when they had it. You can talk about how Cesc wasn't truly fit, you can maybe even make the argument that Walcott, with his pace, should have started instead of Arshavin, but blaming it on the pitch? PLEASE. I eye-rolled so hard during that mess, lemme tell you.

Now, all that said, I do like the way that Arsenal play, and I find the great majority of their players to be charming and adorable, not to mention talented. If it hadn't been for that team, I probably would have started drinking a while back, considering how Liverpool's season has gone. (And, in defense of the Arsenal fanbase, I'm sure there's plenty of things about the Liverpool fanbase that drive onlookers equally nuts.) I like them a lot. But they aren't perfect, and simply playing gorgeous football isn't enough of a reason to hand them the league. Playing gorgeous football and earning the league title will.

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

stop talking sense, you

[mardia.livejournal.com]

WOW that was a longass comment of mine. Apparently I have been having THOUGHTS for a while now. Also, HEEEE at all those tweets, but especially Babel's. I actually want him to say that during a match now. LOL U MAD?

Ryan Babel--the footballer version of ONTD, for sure.

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

omg m b i meant to link you to this tweet of rio's, not the same tweet twice!