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After the miniature jerseys, then the giant jerseys, now the list of "Things I have to steal from the streets before this World Cup is over" keeps growing and growing. They've put those pretty prints of the French players all around the Saint-Sulpice fountain, to spruce it up while it's being renovated. I approve:
The World Cup doesn't make me happy right now. It wasn't supposed to be like that, this is the worst scenario. Until the end I was hoping Ireland would deliver and rid us of those nasty cheating pendejos Pumas (yeah, not a big Argentina fan here), but they completely fell apart. It was sad to watch. France and New Zealand were supposed to meet at the end, in Paris, for the final, right? Not in a quarter. Not in Cardiff, dammit. I just hate this, whatever happens on Saturday, it will be heartbreaking for me. I can't believe how unfair the pools were. It was so difficult to qualify from pool D. Whereas those cowards from Scotland, who didn't even have the guts to face the ABs with their A team, qualified easily. And now Argentina has an open road to the semi. Oh, how I hate the fucking Pumas!!
Anyway, to remind me of happier times, here's a lovely highlights clip of the most awesome rugby game that ever was, the 1999 France/NZ semi-final. Watch this and weep, it's beautiful:
Click to viewThis makes me so nostalgic, man I wish we still played with blue jerseys/white shorts/red socks combo! Enough with that all midnight blue nonsense, and the whole jersey controversy, I don't want to see the All Blacks play in that gray atrocity again. It makes no sense. I blame the people at Nike who are tasteless morons and the FFR who just won't be classy and back off. I know France won the toss, but still, it's less unusual for France to play in white than for the All Blacks to play in anything else that their black jerseys. Now all of New Zealand will resent us if they keep on with that stupid feud over the colour clash. All this is so tacky, it makes me sad. I guess I should stop reading the kiwi websites.
Just for fun, one more clip. I love the ARC's previews. Since that one they made for the Tri Nations, I haven't been able to refer to Stirling Mortlock by anything other than "the evil wizard"... They made this for the World Cup and it's pretty cute: