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

[mardia.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to co-sign basically this entire list, especially the bits about Liverpool and Barca. (JFC, do we need to perform an exorcism in Anfield to get rid of Hodgson? BECAUSE I WILL BE THERE WITH THE HOLY WATER IF THAT'S THE CASE.)

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Also, have a wonderful time in Paris!

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

bon voyage! <3

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

and if we're endorsing the list I'll go for -- *squints* -- around 50% of it! :D

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

thank you! :) we'd have an entire army wielding triple-blessed Super Soakers at the ready, man...

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

hee, thank you! (is it, perhaps... the top 50%? XP)

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

ALMOST. XD The exception being Silva (of course!) over Liverpool. I find Liverpool's thrashing around good entertainment. *heartless*

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

haha I couldn't remember if you were cheering for City or just kind of wishing Silva success in a way that didn't make his team win XD I kind of think Liverpool is doomed to be... the new Arsenal? only without the pretty football. the occasionally glorious win to give the fans hope before reverting to mid-table misery with occasional flirtation with the relegation zone to keep things interesting. I can sort of appreciate the chaos, but only watching through the gaps between my fingers with my hands over my face.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Wellll I kind of see-saw on City. In addition to the obvious, I like to root for them because everyone else hates them so much. XD I don't begrudge them their billions, though I'd like to see it used more intelligently? To form (or attempt to form) a team following some kind of general idea or philosophy and then work with that core, rather than the Pokemon approach. With, of course, the ability to outbid anyone else around if there's one particular player they want - as long as they really want them, rather than blindly snatching up whoever comes along just because they can.

Long story short, most weekends I end up rooting for them, buuuut when Silva leaves I probably won't care any more. XD

[aramley.livejournal.com]

Have an amazing time! :D

Also, when I get to Oxford next time I'm going to make you sit with me and explain who like 94% of the people on this cast list are because currently I spend about twenty-three hours each day rereading the associated fic and hopelessly clicking refresh. Guaranteed fandom hook: political au ;_;

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

wheeeee thank you!

AHAHAHA GOT YOU GOT YOU GOT YOU

uh I mean. I would be happy to! though I will need to get to you quickly before you are infected with the gross madridista germs. shipping Stevie/Xabi: 100% okay! feeling unironic affection for Cristiano Ronaldo: not okay. XDD (thus it is with great trepidation that I link you to this associated snippet that you may or may not have already seen (http://dorkorific.livejournal.com/80881.html), but I am a responsible crack dealer and I would never hold out on you.)

ALSO COME VISIT SOON I MISS YOUUUUUUUUU

[distira.livejournal.com]

ahh have fun in paris! amazing city :)

dearlord Liverpool. supposedly hodgson's giving a presser tomorrow? if he doesn't resign I fully expect him to be pelted with rotten fruit.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

I find myself weirdly falling for City, though like you say part of it is probably my contrary nature being mad at how EVERYBODY HATES THEM FOR NO GOOD REASON. idk, I wish people would give Mancini a chance, instead of shrieking about how he's destroying football with his defensive strategy and HOW DARE HE NOT LET ARSENAL SCORE OMG when this is his first full season and he honestly does seem to be getting something close to a team out of the dressing room from hell. I was initially upset Silva went there, but I think he has a chance to be important and recognized for his talent in England in a way he never would in Spain and I hope he sticks it out. the few Man City fans I know really appreciate him.

plus, Super Mario. he is like Zlatan 2.0, such a tactless dick but I cannot help but love him. with all the shit he had to put up with in Italy, he is due a break. and I am kind of fascinated by his relationship with Mancini, and I wish less sketchy sources than the Daily Fail would tell me about him being friends with Andrea Mancini, because that is potentially adorable.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

thank you! it's supposed to be raining the whole time I'm there but OH WELL. XD

go away roy. nobody likes you. please god can they just hire rijkaard he's a good coach and hella good-looking. (priorities i has them.)

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

I am a responsible crack dealer
lies lies lies

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

i was reading this and i thought of you

/hijacking threads like a pro

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha I linked to it on tumblr a couple days ago after I found it in your delicious STALKING LIKE A PRO

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

are you accusing me of not dealing out the crack. because, I mean. bro. what has our relationship come to if you don't trust me to get you what you need.

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

words cannot express how fucked I think we are against Arsenal without you.

words cannot express how fucked I think we are against Arsenal without you

words cannot express how fucked I think we are against Arsenal without you.


oic

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[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

edit: oops, wrong icon. subtle milan vibes via Balotelli, clearly.

Oh yes, Balotelli, absolutely. If he stays in England, it would be great to see him become one of those major talismanic figures, and as you say, he deserves a break. OTOH I care about Serie A a lot more than the EPL so if he wants to move back their eventually, as he's indicated before, I'd be happy to see him go to Milan and stick it to the haters. As it were. (Though this could also be accomplished via the NT, or the Champions' League.)

Anyway, back to David Silva (shhh), I started following a couple Man City blogs at the beginning of the season for research purposes and now they're all SO IN LOVE WITH HIM, it's absolutely hilarious. And kind of cute. Needless to say this does a lot to ingratiate the Man City fanbase to me. That, and the adorable Japanese fangirl whose Engrish-heavy tumblr I stalk ahaha.

Thing is, I'm not entirely sure if he'll be able to - to fulfill his potential or not, in terms of being able to play the type of game that he's best at. And I want him to fulfill his potential. I'm not even thinking entirely of the difference overall between the EPL and La Liga - I'm thinking of depends how City develops (or doesn't) as a team and where Mancini (or another manager) takes them tactically. It's not that he wouldn't be good still, but there's a difference.

For the moment, I basically agree with you on Spain, though I think that, like David Villa, he did get plenty of recognition within Spain while at Valencia - just very little out of it. Except by Sid Lowe and select LJ-ers, of course. XD And the only way out of that is the Big Two and without getting into my massive tl;dr thoughts on the future of Real Madrid, let's just say I don't think it's the right match, and Barcelona doesn't need another player like Silva. (Yet.*) If anyone league needs an independent billionaire to come along and adopt a team to shower with cash it's La Liga, just to put a serious crack in the Madrelona hegemony and open up rights distribution and okay this is a tangent isn't it.

Uh, anyway, the point of that paragraph I'm okay with Silva sticking around for a couple years, possibly even the whole contract - depends on the aforementioned caveats.



*one fic theory about a viable future involves him and Cesc becoming the new Iniesta and Xavi around three or four years in the future. despite the copious personal angst this would involve for me. XD

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

gross madridista germs

heh heh heh.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

what can I say. the heart wants what it wants. apparently what mine wants is Man City. (also I know this will get me tarred and feathered by like everyone I know but I don't like Arsenal. I've tried but I just don't. they are annoying and self-righteous and OH YOU SHOULD JUST LET US SCORE OUR FOOTBALL IS THE PRETTIEST. suck it up and deal children even Barça has to win against teams that park the bus! and aside from his friendship with Puyi and Pique I'm not all that attached to Cesc, so. Theo's cute though, will admit to that one.)

haha I think that rant was a long time coming... oh well. you still love me right? ♥

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[meretricula.livejournal.com]

Mario at Milan (if he can't hack it in England, because I think he could be great there if he'd focus a little more) would be so epic, omg. can you imagine him and Zlatan on the same team? they would either hate each other at first sight or bond. really though I just want Mario to play with Alberto Paloschi sometime. this is my great ambition for him. it would be so cute.

I suspect we're following some of the same blogs. SO ADORABLE. paragraphs waxing poetic about how magical Silva is. I love it. he's so different from what they're used to and you can almost see the hearts in their eyes.

I don't know, really, what kind of game Silva's best for. but there are some players (Torres, Reina, Arteta even) who just clearly had to GET OUT OF SPAIN, and while we won't know about Silva for at least a season, I do feel like if he can take the weather, he could do really well for himself by staying. might even win something! it kind of kills me inside to know that players as amazing as Silva and Villa have resumes as short as they do just because they didn't play for Madrid or Barcelona. (in regards to your tangent, I believe some random oil baron has bought Malaga, so your wish may come true soon!)

haha oh dear. well, it would be cute? but probably wouldn't happen, barring some injury disaster. I think Iniesta will be around long enough for the next generation of Barça midfield maestros to get settled in. knock wood!

[mardia.livejournal.com]

*comes in* HEEEEE. I'll freely admit that if Man City didn't have Nigel de Jong on their team, I'd probably like them quite a bit more. I don't think you can really judge them so much for having money in the first place, it's what they're doing, or not doing, with it that matters. (After all, even Barca has made some big-money transfers, hello David Villa.)

What, I think, bugs me about Man City, is that they have, like you said, the dressing room from hell. It's kind of hard to find that endearing when there seems to be a fight at training every week.

I like Arsenal quite a bit, hahah, like you can't tell from my Tumblr, lya accuses me of being a gooner every week--but yeah, sometimes I think I want them to win the league this year only just so everyone will shut up about it already. Including Arsenal. Also, I'm kind of not that impressed with the "Arsenal deserved to win the game" argument from this week's match. Did they score? Were they cheated out of a penalty? Then that's pretty much it, isn't it? Man City has arguably the best defense in the league, and if you can't score against it, then there you go. That being said, I confess, I find most of their players adorable, so that probably helps my attachment quite a bit. (waves at Theo)

But thanks to the clusterfuck that is Liverpool at the moment, I'm not all that attached to the EPL at the moment. Somebody, for the love of God, just call me when Roy gets fired. Until then, Imma cling to Pep, who is brilliant, never mind actually competent at his job.

[eileenyx.livejournal.com]

Have a wonderful time in Paris! Hopefully, we'll hear of your adventures? :)

Also echoing your thoughts on Liverpool, Barça, and Villarreal (a club I have a soft spot for because of Santi, Capdevila and Senna, as well as their amazing Christmas video, so it's not just because they're going up against RM or whatever /FAILED ATTEMPT TO BE ~MATURE). And if Hodgson isn't fired by the weekend, I think we're stuck with him and his blame game post-match comments. Sigh. Lately, watching Liverpool matches has been bad for my posture, what with all the crawling into a fetal position as the clock ticks.