This picture? Mori can play basketball, that's good form. I like him 1000x more now.
Maniche having to be stopped urgently enough to hack him down is a very odd thing to me, just as odd as Ruud doing it. (Was Maniche in his own box? What was going on?) How was the Greek? I assume he played, since he was deemed fit enough to play for the NT last week? Ujfi? Recovered from the suck, I gather, since there was only one goal?
Y'know, I was looking at his little follow-through motion as compared to the general incompetence of his teammates and thinking he might have played some basketball too. It makes sense considering his height and ability to jump like a kangaroo. (Should've known the way to your heart was via b-ball rather than short shorts. :p
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You can totally tell he's played just by how he holds his body, and where he's looking. Maybe next season he can come to Inter instead of the Gulf and teach them how to hoop? Because when Inter play basketball, to a man they just look awful. (lol I don't know how in the world you got such a terribly wrong impression in the first place.)
I guess the Greek is resting up for Liverpool? Damn, I'm so going to have to watch that, even if it's via Tivo. Is Ujfi hurt long-term?! Crap. I looked @ the pics and he looks bad even before he's hurt -- all pale and scrawny. Maybe the Greek being hurt caused him more trouble than we thought. (Oh god, poor Colombian! How old is he?)
*weeps* I don't want him out of La Liga! but if has to go, Inter would be better, though he'd never get any playing time with all th damn up and coming strikers. *grumbles* and I've noticed the awful b-ball, it must be painful for you to watch them fumbling about. :p (This is football! I expected a bit more leg appreciation from you! Not covered leg appreciation
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1) I miss seeing Mori's RAAAAR face. :( 2) Emery is adorable. So my second favourite coach in La Liga - but then I think he got me back when he went on TV and explained how he was going to beat Real last season - before going on to beat Real. :D 3) Man, I never realized Atletico's kits were that tight. And dammit, why do Real get such nice home kits this season? 4) Cesc and Santi are so cute. Poor old DV, no one's meant to take that amount of silly from both sides. *g*
1) Me too! ;_; He's being such a team player, running his arse off, but a goal scoring Mori is a more joyful event. And the first goal Villa scored today with an assist by Mori's face grieved me enormously. 2) He is. And I've seen references to when he did that! Is there a write-up of it anywhere? Such a young and cocky (almost like a young Mourinho) thing to do! 3) Heck ya, those things are tight! When Maniche put on a bit of paunch last season he looked like a stuffed sausage in it. I liked their kits in 06-07 too. *shakes fist* Dammit! 4)Look at how far he's leaning forward in an attempt to escape. That'll teach him to have private conversations in front of his teammates. :p
1) Mori's face? Really? D: 2) Unai Emery: does exactly what he says on the screen. The Almería coach went on telly with a tactics board and explained how he was going to defeat Real Madrid 24 hours before going into the arena and doing precisely that - the high point of an exceptional season. - from a Sid Lowe article. The funny thing is that Emery is the anti-Mourinho in many ways - his players don't like him, he's boring...etc. But I find his geekiness endearing. 3) Ahh, the Atletico kit is unforgiving! *g* Unlike the Barca kits which are so billowy they manage to disguise Sammy Eto'o's thinness. Me too! Dammit, Adidas. Although mostly I just have flipped-collar-envy. 4) He could just attempt to eat them once he's done with the call. :D
1) Oh, it was awful! *bawls* Valencia's first goal and Villa celebrating with everyone and I was just sitting there going D: D: D: because Mori was down. If Villa hadn't started to look concerned and finally ventured over to hold his hand and say some soothing things, I would've thought less of him, really. You can see part of it in the first goal here, it cuts off before the hand holding though. *sniffles*) 2) lol I love how everybody says he's boring as hell. It does look like he had to spice things up to motivate Valencia though, the man is smart. 3) Oh, it is indeed. Can't even eat a potato chip. And yeah, Barça's kits are good for the skinny Hleb types too, imagine how thin he'd look if the kit clinged. 4) I'm sure he did try, but Marchen'a over there keeping a watchful eye on him and he's his club's first captain. Even on NT duty, there's a hierarchy, and no eating your own teammates! No matter how they provoke you!
And of course it's Morientes out of all of them fussing over the exact placement of the netting on the basketball basket. I hope someone was making fun of him for it.
I wish I could comment on the Valencia training but once my mind goes to Morientes it cannot go anywhere else.
I assumed the ref of the Madrid derby has some kind of OCD. 10 v 10 looks so much better than 10 v 11.
Cesc and Santi making fun of Villa, kissy noises and yelling obscenities, "Villa stop touching me there!" and "Villa pass the bong!", etc.
Mori knows a disorderly net is a sign of a disorderly mind! And I'd hope somebody was teasing him over the finicky behavior too (Raúl would've! *emos*) instead of ignoring him like Albelda is back there. :p
I can relate. Really, this all started off as excuse to post pics of Mori, the rest is just a side benefit.
Agreed, he was so transparent. :/ No more derbies for him anytime soon, I'd hope, he can't handle the pressure.
Villa: *has to be held off from killing them both as soon as the phone call ends* :p
I feel like when he's nervous he goes through the changing room lockers and straightens up. Not unlike a den mother. Or maybe that's OCD Becks? I get my knowledge of weird athlete habits mixed up and then force them upon perfectly innocent footballers who are probably more normal than I. Or Mori, because he's completely abnormal and smiley.
According to the commentator of the broadcast I watched Carlos Clos Gomez was actually one of the "promising young referees"...
Suitcase belt: *moves, saving Fabregas and Cazorla from a fate worse than Villa*
That does sound like something I've heard about Becks, though I wouldn't put it past Mori to have picked up the habit too over his years of benching at Real. I don't put any weird tendencies past him anyway ever since I read about him carrying a mini statue of the Virgin Mary in his suitcase when he traveled to Monaco (You think he was worried they didn't have the Virgin Mary in France?). And yes, I do find myself trying to crack Mori too, how can he be that bubbly? It's unnatural! (♥'s him)
According to stickmarionette he's right on course in joining the ranks of insane La Liga refs. :p
A-ha! The suitcase belt is in on it! No wonder they look so cocksure in their mocking. :D
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Maniche having to be stopped urgently enough to hack him down is a very odd thing to me, just as odd as Ruud doing it. (Was Maniche in his own box? What was going on?) How was the Greek? I assume he played, since he was deemed fit enough to play for the NT last week? Ujfi? Recovered from the suck, I gather, since there was only one goal?
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I guess the Greek is resting up for Liverpool? Damn, I'm so going to have to watch that, even if it's via Tivo. Is Ujfi hurt long-term?! Crap. I looked @ the pics and he looks bad even before he's hurt -- all pale and scrawny. Maybe the Greek being hurt caused him more trouble than we thought. (Oh god, poor Colombian! How old is he?)
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2) Emery is adorable. So my second favourite coach in La Liga - but then I think he got me back when he went on TV and explained how he was going to beat Real last season - before going on to beat Real. :D
3) Man, I never realized Atletico's kits were that tight. And dammit, why do Real get such nice home kits this season?
4) Cesc and Santi are so cute. Poor old DV, no one's meant to take that amount of silly from both sides. *g*
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2) He is. And I've seen references to when he did that! Is there a write-up of it anywhere? Such a young and cocky (almost like a young Mourinho) thing to do!
3) Heck ya, those things are tight! When Maniche put on a bit of paunch last season he looked like a stuffed sausage in it. I liked their kits in 06-07 too. *shakes fist* Dammit!
4)Look at how far he's leaning forward in an attempt to escape. That'll teach him to have private conversations in front of his teammates. :p
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2) Unai Emery: does exactly what he says on the screen. The Almería coach went on telly with a tactics board and explained how he was going to defeat Real Madrid 24 hours before going into the arena and doing precisely that - the high point of an exceptional season. - from a Sid Lowe article.
The funny thing is that Emery is the anti-Mourinho in many ways - his players don't like him, he's boring...etc. But I find his geekiness endearing.
3) Ahh, the Atletico kit is unforgiving! *g* Unlike the Barca kits which are so billowy they manage to disguise Sammy Eto'o's thinness. Me too! Dammit, Adidas. Although mostly I just have flipped-collar-envy.
4) He could just attempt to eat them once he's done with the call. :D
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2) lol I love how everybody says he's boring as hell. It does look like he had to spice things up to motivate Valencia though, the man is smart.
3) Oh, it is indeed. Can't even eat a potato chip. And yeah, Barça's kits are good for the skinny Hleb types too, imagine how thin he'd look if the kit clinged.
4) I'm sure he did try, but Marchen'a over there keeping a watchful eye on him and he's his club's first captain. Even on NT duty, there's a hierarchy, and no eating your own teammates! No matter how they provoke you!
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I wish I could comment on the Valencia training but once my mind goes to Morientes it cannot go anywhere else.
I assumed the ref of the Madrid derby has some kind of OCD. 10 v 10 looks so much better than 10 v 11.
Cesc and Santi making fun of Villa, kissy noises and yelling obscenities, "Villa stop touching me there!" and "Villa pass the bong!", etc.
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I can relate. Really, this all started off as excuse to post pics of Mori, the rest is just a side benefit.
Agreed, he was so transparent. :/ No more derbies for him anytime soon, I'd hope, he can't handle the pressure.
Villa: *has to be held off from killing them both as soon as the phone call ends* :p
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According to the commentator of the broadcast I watched Carlos Clos Gomez was actually one of the "promising young referees"...
Suitcase belt: *moves, saving Fabregas and Cazorla from a fate worse than Villa*
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According to stickmarionette he's right on course in joining the ranks of insane La Liga refs. :p
A-ha! The suitcase belt is in on it! No wonder they look so cocksure in their mocking. :D
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