Top 5 Meme Answers
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redfiona99The rules were ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.
The first two are done.
With due warning for my bias against the Spanish league.
1 - Yuri Zhirkov, because he was the best out of that particularly good Zenit St. Petersburg team, and it pleases me enormously that he'll be playing somewhere where I can watch him next season. It also pleases me that he's playing for Chelsea, because I think the way they play will suit him.
2 - Andrei Arshavin, okay, so I'm in love with that Zenit team, I admit it.
3 - Shay Given, because a guy who lets in 10 goals over two games and still gets rave reviews either you're doing something very right, or your team are doing something very wrong, or, in the case of Shay Given, both.
4 - Antonio Valencia, who is, despite what people think, probably every bit as good as Ronaldo, and less prone to making people want to punch him.
5 - Nemanja Vidic, because when he's good he's very good indeed, and he's good far more regularly than he's bad. I do grant however, that when he's bad, he's horrible.
A lot of these are quite early on in my watching, but I still think they're awesome moments.
1 - There are a couple of options for this, but I've gone for the safe one (which means you can guess exactly what the other possible is). So TNA back when I could actually watch it, and Russo was only a front stage person. Anyway, Storm was out with a shoulder injury (%^&**%^*ing Naturals) and Chris Harris was number one contender and, or so I remember, was being taught how to win by Russo, mostly by being beaten up by people. Storm had been interfering, and Russo was all, 'obviously you don't believe in him'. So Harris is being taken apart by someone (can't remember who off hand, I think it's both Naturals, seperately, and then El Lione) and is losing so badly, and Storm comes down the ramp, and he's stuck because he wants to help his friend, but he knows how it looks and then Russo comes out and they have an argument. Then there's this moment, where Storm realises that Harris's health matters more to him than Harris's chances of winning the belt and he goes and rescues him afterwards. So far, so obviously heading towards break up and heeldom for someone. But, and this is where I actually became hypersonic with squee, once Harris realises he doesn't have to fight anymore, he rolls out of the ring and Storm follows him and Harris just leans on him. And it's like 'oh my dear beloved boys, how well you understand each other'. My lj posts on this, once I've tagged them, will probably explain this better.
2 - The only good thing to come out of the Katie Vick mess. So you had that thing going on RAW and on Smackdown the Undertaker was being tormented by Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar and the whole bit with the mistress and everything. So it's the opening of No Mercy and we get a brief recap of what's been going on, and then, in the locker room, Kane turns round to the Undertaker and goes 'so, how's your week?' Taker's WTF look has to be seen, it's a lovely mixture of 'are you kidding me?' and 'my brother is an idiot'. It's the only time they've ever sold me on them being brothers. As can be seen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fm26XdZ_28
3 - Before it descended into the whole 'I did it for the Rock' nonsense (although, interesting way to build up a mid-carder) the whole 'Who Ran Over Steve Austin?' thing. It might well have been one of the first RAWs or Smackdowns I ever watched properly but there's Kurt Angle in the ring and they pretty much go through everyone in there and accuse them including Essa Rios. The whole thing was amazing, a lovely mix of high drama (well, melodrama) and low comedy.
d - The setting is an absolutely means nothing match on Heat, Jeff Hardy v Eddy Guerrero (Jeff's the face, Eddy's the heel) and Eddy gets announced first. While they're waiting for Jeff to enter, Eddy hops up into the ropes and lounges there, in the most offensive manner possible. (I have never seen anyone lounge quite so offensively ever.) And he didn't need to do that, the crowd were going to cheer for Jeff anyway, but that he did it meant so much to me. (Of course, I booed and hissed as intended, but with a certain admiration.) I've a fondness for people who do the little things (see also Regal and Punk, and, much though he's not my kind of wrestler, Cena does it too.)
e - Stretching the concept of moment ever so slightly, but dying days of WCW, and they were doing a tour of the UK, and the tag match between Lt. Loco and Cpl. Cajun v Jindrak and O'Haire is still the best tag match I have ever seen (the other candidate for best tag match ever is Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett w/ Debra v The New Age Outlaws at Backlash '98). There was so much good to aforementioned dying days, if you ignored the heavyweight scene, that I do still miss WCW and it's cruiserweights.
The first two are done.
With due warning for my bias against the Spanish league.
1 - Yuri Zhirkov, because he was the best out of that particularly good Zenit St. Petersburg team, and it pleases me enormously that he'll be playing somewhere where I can watch him next season. It also pleases me that he's playing for Chelsea, because I think the way they play will suit him.
2 - Andrei Arshavin, okay, so I'm in love with that Zenit team, I admit it.
3 - Shay Given, because a guy who lets in 10 goals over two games and still gets rave reviews either you're doing something very right, or your team are doing something very wrong, or, in the case of Shay Given, both.
4 - Antonio Valencia, who is, despite what people think, probably every bit as good as Ronaldo, and less prone to making people want to punch him.
5 - Nemanja Vidic, because when he's good he's very good indeed, and he's good far more regularly than he's bad. I do grant however, that when he's bad, he's horrible.
A lot of these are quite early on in my watching, but I still think they're awesome moments.
1 - There are a couple of options for this, but I've gone for the safe one (which means you can guess exactly what the other possible is). So TNA back when I could actually watch it, and Russo was only a front stage person. Anyway, Storm was out with a shoulder injury (%^&**%^*ing Naturals) and Chris Harris was number one contender and, or so I remember, was being taught how to win by Russo, mostly by being beaten up by people. Storm had been interfering, and Russo was all, 'obviously you don't believe in him'. So Harris is being taken apart by someone (can't remember who off hand, I think it's both Naturals, seperately, and then El Lione) and is losing so badly, and Storm comes down the ramp, and he's stuck because he wants to help his friend, but he knows how it looks and then Russo comes out and they have an argument. Then there's this moment, where Storm realises that Harris's health matters more to him than Harris's chances of winning the belt and he goes and rescues him afterwards. So far, so obviously heading towards break up and heeldom for someone. But, and this is where I actually became hypersonic with squee, once Harris realises he doesn't have to fight anymore, he rolls out of the ring and Storm follows him and Harris just leans on him. And it's like 'oh my dear beloved boys, how well you understand each other'. My lj posts on this, once I've tagged them, will probably explain this better.
2 - The only good thing to come out of the Katie Vick mess. So you had that thing going on RAW and on Smackdown the Undertaker was being tormented by Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar and the whole bit with the mistress and everything. So it's the opening of No Mercy and we get a brief recap of what's been going on, and then, in the locker room, Kane turns round to the Undertaker and goes 'so, how's your week?' Taker's WTF look has to be seen, it's a lovely mixture of 'are you kidding me?' and 'my brother is an idiot'. It's the only time they've ever sold me on them being brothers. As can be seen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fm26XdZ_28
3 - Before it descended into the whole 'I did it for the Rock' nonsense (although, interesting way to build up a mid-carder) the whole 'Who Ran Over Steve Austin?' thing. It might well have been one of the first RAWs or Smackdowns I ever watched properly but there's Kurt Angle in the ring and they pretty much go through everyone in there and accuse them including Essa Rios. The whole thing was amazing, a lovely mix of high drama (well, melodrama) and low comedy.
d - The setting is an absolutely means nothing match on Heat, Jeff Hardy v Eddy Guerrero (Jeff's the face, Eddy's the heel) and Eddy gets announced first. While they're waiting for Jeff to enter, Eddy hops up into the ropes and lounges there, in the most offensive manner possible. (I have never seen anyone lounge quite so offensively ever.) And he didn't need to do that, the crowd were going to cheer for Jeff anyway, but that he did it meant so much to me. (Of course, I booed and hissed as intended, but with a certain admiration.) I've a fondness for people who do the little things (see also Regal and Punk, and, much though he's not my kind of wrestler, Cena does it too.)
e - Stretching the concept of moment ever so slightly, but dying days of WCW, and they were doing a tour of the UK, and the tag match between Lt. Loco and Cpl. Cajun v Jindrak and O'Haire is still the best tag match I have ever seen (the other candidate for best tag match ever is Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett w/ Debra v The New Age Outlaws at Backlash '98). There was so much good to aforementioned dying days, if you ignored the heavyweight scene, that I do still miss WCW and it's cruiserweights.
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Date: 2009-08-17 05:23 pm (UTC)HAHAHA, yeah, that was pretty gold.