Football (Again, I apologise for the related icon)

I finally watched the 2006 World Cup Final shoot out as live. Lossi and Kindoftrouble - I think the for the sake of the entire world's eardrums, we did the right thing not watching it live. I'm having palpitations a year on.

3 things I've noticed:

1 - Del Piero really doesn't celebrate that much when he scores. This endears me to him even more excessively than usual. Way to step up to the mark when it matters, Alessandro.
2 - The look on Grosso's face as they all go in. That is the look of a man who knows it's likely to be up to him. Fabio, I love and adore you excessively for not wilting under that kind of pressure.
3 - Cannavaro stands totally stock still for the entirity of it. I don't know if it's ever come out, but chances that he was number 6 to go?

Other things - I'd forgotten exactly how craptacular Buffon was at penalties. I know I always say this about him, but he didn't go the right way for a single one of those penalties. I am unaccountably upset for Barthez, because he at least went in the right direction for most of them, even if he didn't get a hand to them.

Dear Thierry Henry, I feel I have been unneccessarily mean to you recently. For hugging Trezuguet, you get a life-time pass into my good books. It must be said that Michael Owen has one too for talking to the Columbian goalie after the England v Columbia in 1998.

Music Request

If someone would be so kind as upload 'Lift Me Up' by Moby I'd be ever so grateful.

I wish to declare my undying love for John Barrowman

From an interview with Media BLVD magazine:

MediaBlvd: Do you think this show presents positive role models because it presents characters who don’t have to explain their sexuality and who just live their lives?

John: That’s the way it should be. It should just be very matter-of-fact. If you’re bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender or heterosexual, who cares? If it does change the minds of certain audiences, that’s great. People who watch these shows are gay, lesbian, bisexual, from the transgender community, and who’s to say that you’re the one to judge who’s right or wrong. That’s not your position, as a human being, to do that. It’s actually no one’s position. The thing that Torchwood does is treat it very matter-of-factly. It’s not an issue. I use the example of when people describe me as, “Gay actor, John Barrowman.” If they were to interview Brad Pitt -- and I use him as an example because he’s very popular, not because I’m in the same kind of category -- they wouldn’t say, “Heterosexual actor Brad Pitt,” so why do they have to put labels on everything else? These are sexually active human beings, as we all are. They’re not afraid of sex. We shouldn’t be afraid of sex. Sex is a vital part of our existence. For anybody who watches the show and is upset by it, turn off the fucking television. It’s so not the norm in America. In Europe, we don’t put that much of a heavyweight on it. It is normal. It’s sensationalized in the United States, which might be a good thing because it makes people watch, but it can also be a detrimental thing. Let it be. Let it happen. And, I think that’s why we explore that. People in the States are intrigued by that because all of our shows cover that. Americans look at it as exploring the issue. We don’t look at it as exploring it. We look at it as telling the story. Hopefully, one day, it won’t be an issue in America.