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One reason I'm glad I don't live in Brazil
Posted by David Hepworth on 28 July 2011 - 9:55am.
OK, this is a sensational goal but all this "goooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllll" business is deeply, deeply dull, isn't it?
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That
and the horrific murder rate.
Yes, and all those
tedious bossa nova records
Tedious?
You jest, Sir.
There is no such thing as a bad bossa nova record. It's all good.
Apart from that one by The Pixies, and I'm not sure that that really counts.
Just watched the extended highlights of this game.
Fantastic stuff. The Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool thing is a bit much especially when Ronaldinho's tap-in gets the same treatment. You can always turn down the sound (it is in Portuguese after all) although there's a great example of glottus interruptus when he starts a Goooooo- only to realise the goal's been disallowed.
But the best part of the game - even better than the quality, the nine goals or the fact that if you squint you can pretend it's QPR beating Real Madrid away (The Flamenco crest is even like the old QPR one) - is the fact that the turning point of the game involves the keeper not only saving Elano's penalty but contemptuously juggling it on his knee.
From that moment there can be only one winner.
I CANNOT WAIT for the football season to start.
The 'goooooooooooal' thing...
reminds me of an Asterix The Gaul book, in which a group of tourists visit the Gaul's village and buy loads of antiques at the one antique shop, and lots of fish at the one fish shop. The next time we see a group of tourists visit, the village is full of antique and fish shops. Give them more of what they want is the message, utter boredom is the actual result. As with 'gooooooal'.
Rick Jeanneret
The Buffalo Sabres play-by-play commentator does this after every goal - and it becomes extremely tiresome after a while. Any viewers of NHL on ESPN will know what I mean.
Plus his repeated references to "The population of Pominville" increasing whenever Jason Pominville scores - both repetitive and tired.
I like it
I also like this:
Hee hee
But it was a fantastic goal. Even the usually restrained Barry Davies went a bit nuts over that one. Always good value when he got over-excited commentating, Barry Davies...
Just look at his face!
Barry's finest moment (at 0.38) ...
Shame they lost in the next round
I watched the game in a pub in Amsterdam. The goal and what followed on the streets made for an unforgettable evening.
That's all very well Fraser
... but who scored the goal?
I like a ggggggooooooooaaaaaaallllllllll
It gets across the excitement without resorting to the hyperbole in much of the UK's football commentators where a nicely taken goal gets described as the best goal ever most nights.
pudding, over-egged
The 'Bergkamp' commentary is great, but it's the context of the goal (a moment of genius in the last minute of a World Cup Quarter Final) that makes it appropriate.
Some local radio commentators in the UK now think that shrieking at every goal will convince listeners that:
a) something exciting is happening
and b) the commentator is edgy, iconoclastic and modern. You know, someone who is 'better' than those stuffy 'old school' broadcasters who tended to rely upon their vocabulary.
I'll let 'em off
I'll let 'em off, due to the way the say 'spectaculari'
Hey Brazil's not so bad
Unless you don't have 27B stroke 6 form. Or your name's Archibald Buttle:
Brazil nuts
And string bikinis
The former caused...
...by a male wearing the latter?
I remember
years ago the suggestion that Steamboat Willie was an industrial disease ...
Not related to
Moby Dick, then?
In its review of the recent TV adaptation
a nameless Washington Post sub has created this (continued from page C1) headline:
Somehere, on an Elysian plain, the spirits of Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddiock are smiling benignly.
Review, minus that great headline, is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/encores-lavish-new-moby-di...
(William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, and Gillian Anderson as Mrs Ahab, no less)
Moby Dick
There, but for a hyphen (or artfully-placed comma)goes a great put-down of a well-known singer songwriter.
I'd sooner...
... have goooooooooal!!! than Robbie Savage.
The master does it right
"Twat! That was liquid football!"
Striker!
.
You don't live in Brazil.
But you were still able to find and post the clip.
Whenever I stream matches on my PC
I always try to go for the Spanish channels, just because of the ten minute goal celebration from the commentators.
I think one guy was actually trying to give birth when Messi scored once.
I much prefer
'One nil' as authoritatively announced by David Coleman
His "Five Minutes Gone. No Score"
Was a touchstone of the FA Cup final. Especially if it really was, er, Nil-Nil.
Btw, has anyone noticed that Private Eye has renamed Colemanballs "Commentatorballs"? This is presumably so younger readers don't feel alienated. Down with this sort of thing! I can even remember the letter in PE that led to the birth of Colemanballs. He said, pausing awhile and a-resting on his staff.
I do miss
the matches where Coleman sounded like he was talking down a phoneline that was being diverted via a wasp's nest.
Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaal is
almost as annoying as those bloody Vuvuzelas...Commentators should really just learn to shut the fuck up...The English football commentators are lauded in parts of the North American press for their restraint..I think they are wrong.. in the last few years with the introduction of the "colour" commentator thay have become just as overbearing as their American colleagues..
I hate to disagree with you David, but..
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It's not at all annoying.
Laughing at foreigners
and their strange ways is what we do best in Britain.
All that "goooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllll" stuff was hugely amusing when we first became aware of it 20 or 30 years ago (I think via Clive James), but like most things, they've taken it too far and it's become tiresome now.
Do Brazilians
have Englishes?
Look at his face!
Just look at his face!!!
It's Hurst, he's got....
...some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over, it is now!
It's four!
Beat that, go on.
No entries allowed for bitter Scots, Welsh, Irish, etc.
Not football
Sid Waddell:
When Alexander The Great was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Bristow is only 27
Sid again
He's not Adonis, he's The Donis!
There's only one word for that - magic darts!
Sidisms
"The greatest comeback since Lazurus"
“Bristow reasons . . . Bristow quickens ... Aaah, Bristow.”
“Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out”
It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia.”
“That's like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank”
“Even Hypotenuse would have trouble working out these angles”
Surely a David Coleman "One-Nil" is always enough.
And my favourite
When he was 30, Alexander the Great cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is 28.
Interesting...
VERY interesting!
Just
look at his face.............