So here we
are! About to witness a whole month of football but before we get lost in the
theatre of international politics acted out on a football pitch let me provide
the last word(s) on the final group.
Group G
Algeria are… Etranger
Etranger
noun qui viet d’un utre pays. (ENGLISH TRANSLATION: not good enough for the French team).
noun qui viet d’un utre pays. (ENGLISH TRANSLATION: not good enough for the French team).
Belgium are…
Aspirant
Aspirant
noun a person
who aspires, as one who seeks or desires a career, advancement, status, higher
wages.: The Belgium aspirants
for the world cup for the world cup had a great press release and fitted the
media’s narrative agenda.
Russia
are… Sleeper
Sleeper
noun 1 a person or
thing that sleeps (on social liberties) 2. a heavy horizontal timber for distributing
loads (they are a big team) 3. Any long wooden, metal, or stone piece lying
horizontally as a sill or footing (don’t think they are going to cope with the
heat) 4. Informal. Something or someone that becomes unexpectedly successful or important
after a period of being unnoticed, ignored, or considered unpromising or a
failure: Russia are a
sleeper to reach quarter finals or more likely Russia are sleeper geo-political threat.
South Korea… Charm
Charm
noun 1 a
power of pleasing or attracting, as through personality or beauty: Koreans have
a charm of manner when they play that is infectious. 2 a trait or feature
imparting this power (they always qualify). 3 charms, attractiveness. 4. something
worn or carried on one’s person for its supposed magic effects (there must have
been some reason how they reached the semi-finals of 2002 world cup).
No that that’s over and I can least say I have improved my vocabulary
through football we can stop speculating and start reacting.
Tonight I expect a battle of the bad hairdos with Croatia coming a
cropper with Brazil shaving past them by two goals. During the opening ceremony,
watch out for ITV commentator and unofficial BNP spokesman, Clive Tyldseley,
making snide remarks about FIFA, some embarrassing sexual allusions when an
attractive women appears on screen and some unintentional causal racist remarks.
Don’t expect him to call the Germans aeonian, describe Italy as opaque or celebrate
Argentina’s acuity. Everyone has their niche when the world is football but
Clive Tyldseley has actually inspired avant-garde musical theater….
I have not watched the entire thing but its all on Youtube! Please let me know if anyone has watched this all the way through but at the moment I am a bit too busy with all things world cup.
