posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 5:17 PM
by
Endie
Forza Italia!!!
I was delighted to see Italy win the World Cup tonight, for a number of reasons. No, this is not down to my knee-jerk dubiety about the French. Let's put that to one side. In any case I have been brushing up my French by following the tournament in le Monde. One of the reasons was that I love Italy, take every chance I can to go there, and have a soft spot for (apparently doomed) Juve. Another reason is that it tonight's result saw me win the work fantasy football competition.
But it delighted me particularly because I utterly and completely despise the French coach, Domenech, and everything he stands for. He is weak - he had no control over his senior players - and vain. But most of all, this is a man that chose his squad on lines decided by his idiotic astrological beliefs.
No Robert Pires, despite his appearing in the European Cup final? Domenech tells us that this is down to Pires being a Scorpio. He doesn't want any Scorpios in the side, So Ribery took his place. I had difficulty understanding the absence of European Cup Winner Ludovic Giuly from the French squad, until I discovered that he, too, is a Scorpio. Nor did Domenech want too many Leos, he said.
Discarding one twelfth of footballers in France simply because of their star sign is moronic logic. Perhaps he would say that logic is a foolish Anglo-Saxon idea that will soon be defeated by the might of French post-structuralism, which shares a similar grounding in, and despisal of, ideas of probative truth. For now, I revelled in the post-match expressions of this stupid man and his thuggish (that's red card number 12 for Zizou), head-butting captain. Yet again a world-cup final is decided by the head of Zidane...