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What's on your World Cup shopping list?
Posted by David Hepworth on 28 April 2010 - 1:52pm.
Mark Ellen is already nearly ill with excitement. I'm plotting how to smuggle HD TV past the FPO. And just now I've been sent an advance copy of "The Sound Of Brazilian Football" (left), which has lots of crazy samba music interspersed with commentaries (in Portugese) of legendary Brazilian goals. It's BRILLIANT!
What else should I be putting in place to make sure I'm ready for the World Cup?
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Barmy Army
The English Disease, containing this masterpiece...
('Video' is a bit LFC-heavy, mind)
Like the Adverts
1 x Wide screen HD ready television
1 x Crate of european fizzy lager
1 x White male friend
1 x Black male friend
1 x Takeaway pizza
1 x Tutting wife
Got to be three of you
Can't have two blokes in an advert
I know
If I have a black friend and a white friend there will be three of us!
Hmmm
This looks suspiciously like the amazing Música De Futebol compilation from a few years back, re-packaged in time for this year's festivities. Every home should have one.
But yes, I'm ready. I have HDTV, a fridge full of cold lager, and a vuvuzela.
"Carrrrrrrlos Alberrrrrrtooo!!"
"Musica de Futebol" is on Spotify. Good for inserting Brazilian goal commentary into playlists for friends, as well as all the stonking samba.
I was hoping the Nascente label would produce a 2010 version of the compilation they did last time round, which had music from every country at the 2006 World Cup, but it doesn't look as if there is one:
http://bit.ly/9BEigH
I'd like a definitive World Cup DVD (history, greatest goals, etc), but I can't see one that fits the bill. Any recommendations?
I have the excellent "Boys from Brazil" BBC documentary, which I'll watch soon to help get in the zone.
I'm also getting in an African mood - "Amandla" on DVD, "The Indestructable Beat of Soweto" on the stereo and "Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" on my bedside table.
I'm also planning to get my pupils addicted to Panini stickers. Go on, son, I'll give you the first few for nothing...
This DVD takes some beating
http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Football-DVD-Beautiful-Game/dp/B0001XLWB...
Especially at £1.27 per disc.
Thanks!
It's in the basket.
Just received it in the post today...
...having ordered last Sunday. Great service from Amazon considering I live in Holland. Glad to hear that it's worth having.
I was listening to Talk Sport the other day....
....and they've already announced their "official World Cup crisp partner". Think we should have one?
crisps and sport, y'say...
Careful now. Down with this sort of...etc etc etc
As a distraction from impending economic Armageddon, this is hogging the newspapers over this side of the Irish Sea
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0428/1224269221337.html
The 'American Cheeseburger' flavour
are quite nice although there is a lot of cheese and not much burger, bit like a Maccy D's burger.
My World Cup must have items will be a blindfold, earplugs and a alarm clock set for when its all over.
I read most of 'Vernon God Little' thru the England v Portugal match whilst in Hyde Park last time waiting for Roger Waters to come onstage. Or rather for Texas to realise no one was paying attention to them
The Cheeseburger flavour crisp have too much gerkin flavour.....
.....in them for me and that kind of put me off them as I've always had to throw the gerkin away ;o(
I had German bratwurst today
Not bad. Reminiscent of Golden Wonder's much-missed sausage and tomato, without the tomato.
Walker's World Cup Crisps?
So how come they have Welsh Rarebit, Irish Stew & Scottish Haggis flavour then?
http://www.walkers-crisps.co.uk/flavourcup/
As a Twitter user...
...you should subscribe to this feed which contains loads of brilliant footy stats:
www.twitter.com/infostradalive
Something I found handy in 2006
was a P45.
Invaluable accompaniment to sustained World Cup watching.
A Copy of
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) or Don't Worry, Be Happy on the turntable. To be played when England exit somewhere around the quarter finals, crushed under the weight of our expectation, ending not with a bang but a whimper (probably).
Beer
and then lots more Beer.
A decent pub with no TVs
I hate football, and really would like a couple of nice venues where I can go without having it shoved down my throat.
Please register your would-be down arrows below.
Au contraire
I enjoy football but sympathise with those that don't at this particularly difficult time.
I feel similarly during the Ashes, Wimbledon, Olympics...etc. There is nothing worse than everyone talking about a sport that bores you to death.
A new trolley holdall.
Some currency and some jabs. Out June 3rd, back July 12th. Six weeks inside a broadcast centre. I dunno, you lot and your pizza and lager....
Earplugs
...and a blindfold.
Hey thats my joke!
that I stole off Sean Locke talking about the merchandise stall at 'We Will Rock You'
Should this site be declared a world cup friendly space?
To avoid annoying our non football loving friends among us, should there be a separate section on the word site (in the build up and during the tournament) for football threads?
We could do a word friendly online commentary for the big games (for those of us sad enough to be watching the games alone with only a laptop for company).
Back Home
I'd recommend Jeff Dawson's book "Back Home" about Mexico 70. Because it's really good.
All Played Out
Or Pete Davies' tome about Italia 1990.
Great read. Soon to be a film I believe.
The only snack
Suitable for an african world cup is biltong. Ditch the pizza and have Nandos. South africa's gift to the world.
A tenner on Holland
Fantasy World Cup Team
and league against friends
http://www.fantasyfifaworldcup.com/
Counter
An electronic counter that counts the number of references to 1966, by Messrs Motson et al.
and a supply of batteries for the inevitable power surge.
You're off to a slow start....
Motty's not commentating.
World Soccer £3.80
I've just bought a copy containing a FREE team-by-team World Cup guide.