Posted by: Alan Black on: July 10, 2009
(left: the founder of a new religion – the soccer SuperGod)
Is Ronaldo SuperGod? Perhaps Jesus spoke to a few hundred during the Sermon on the Mount. Maybe he carved up a dozen fish and breads for the hungry multitude but it’s nothing compared to the flock who packed into the stadium last week to worship [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 28, 2009
(left- Jesus robs the ball and takes off)
Nifty work by the television director of today’s big soccer game between Brazil and the United States. The Brazilians came ready with I Love Jesus t-shirts, and some quickly pulled them on, after their nail-biting victory over strong American boots. The camera cutaways from players bearing The Message [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 25, 2009
(left) – Armada sunk by the Yanks
True Grit, wasn’t that a Duke Wayne movie? Well, we know he spent World War 2 on a yacht drinking martinis, and someone had to, but his tough guy persona on the big screen was replicated by eleven Americans today in South Africa, in the soccer Confederations Cup. Spain, [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 23, 2009
Momentous times for Iran, last week they were eliminated from participating in the soccer World Cup Finals in South Africa in 2010. During their fateful last game, several of the nation’s players wore rebel green armbands in solidarity with their compatriots fighting in the streets. Soccer in Iran is more popular than politics and revolution. [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 22, 2009
(left – Clint Dempsey – the American Spirit)
The USA showed the world how to do it on Sunday in the Confederations Cup in South Africa, thrashing an Egyptian outfit that played like mummies. Needing three goals to keep hopes alive, the boys in red, white and blue did exactly that, while Brazil finished off a [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 17, 2009
North Korea have qualified for next year’s soccer World Cup Finals in South Africa ending the possibility of a nuclear confrontation on the Korean peninsula. No country will threaten its chance of glory at the world’s biggest event. The corks are popping in Pyongyang and cheering could be heard across the DMZ in Korea, the [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 15, 2009
Immigrant. The old country is Scotland. And the old American story, yeah, yeah, yeah, we all came from somewhere else. But when do you actually become an American, for an immigrant when does the tipping point occur? Well, glad to say it happened to me last week in Chicago.
The United States was playing in [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: June 11, 2009
What Ronaldo’s bank account receives in a week takes the average worker five to six years to earn. Then again, the average worker can’t score from forty yards. The thieving bankers take millions for themselves and play golf, that most twisted of Freudian perversions (little balls and little holes). At least Ronaldo has to run [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: May 28, 2009
(left) Fletcher – Heavy Industry
The Final was better than a classic. It was a lesson. At the center of it was the midfield. Barca won the game there, as football matches often are. Darren Fletcher, Manchester United’s central component was missing.
Two years ago, Darren Fletcher played in the red, to high interest rates of abuse [...]
Posted by: Alan Black on: May 10, 2009
At the death of the calamitous Chelsea v Barcelona match last week, a perceptive cameraman from the ESPN network captured a young boy, about twelve years old, sobbing uncontrollably as Chelsea watched their imminent victory disappear into a deep fjord of last minute loss. It was a footballing death moment for the child. Soccer had [...]
