LOL @ Argentina. And everyone said that Messi was absolutely vital, they would never win without him blah blah. He's vital, I agree, but that had to be one of the worst matches he's ever played.
I'm starting to get annoyed with the press calling every patient with a disease in a "fight". You can't fight diabetes. You have to deal with it. Not that it isn't a struggle and that it doesn't influence your life. It's just not a fight that you have to win. You can't win and you can't fail.
You're right. I had never thought about that before, but not long ago I read an article just about this. Many people are gainst the use of such language when referring to illnesses, and not only chronic ones (such as diabetes), but also the ones that you can possibly overcome. This kind of language suggests that active engagement ("fighting") is the only option, which is not really true. Moreover, it implies that those who didn't "win over" (beat cancer, for example) didn't fight the right way or hard enough. Of course this is all even more applicable to conditions such as diabetes, which, as you said it yourself, you have to deal with.
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Not that it isn't a struggle and that it doesn't influence your life. It's just not a fight that you have to win. You can't win and you can't fail.
Oops Messi
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Paul Pogba is pretty striking
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