Wednesday, July 05, 2006

You couldn't score in a brothel

Five things I'm enjoying about the Portugal-France match:

1. The jeering from the England fans every time that pouting, Cliff Richard lookalike Christiano Ronaldo gets the ball. Yes, it's petty and pathetic, but his little sneers and winks fully deserve it.

2. The desperate over-acting by the Portuguese every time they slip over . . .

3. . . . and the referee admirably turning a blind eye to it every time.

4. The fact that the French manager looks exactly like what a French manager should look like -- a philosophy lecturer at the Sorbonne or a rive gauche art critic.

5. Scolari clearly getting more and more agitated as his teams fails to score yet again. Not counting the penalties on Saturday -- and really, who does? -- when did Portugal last look like scoring in open play?

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