World Cup Adverts
May. 25th, 2010 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99(Which reminds me, I really need to bring back my football icon)
One of the best things about the World Cup build-up is the adverts.
The two I really like are the Pepsi Max one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiB3683PztQ), which is a fun advert, and really builds on the previous World Cup ad from 2006 where the tag was "play you for it". It also does the nigh on impossible of making Didier Drogba seem loveable ;)
The other is the Carlberg advert - http://www.youtube.com/englandteamtalk#p/a/u/0/66OuJZGDCHE(You might need to confirm your age for that one)
I don't know why, but there's something about the combo of the present sporting great and good (Steve Redgrave, Kelly Holmes), some fond old friends of the same ilk (Ian Botham, Foggy), the very stereotypical England fan costumes (nuns, crusaders), the unseen England team, where all you see is their backs (more analytically, genius way of getting round not knowing who would be going), a mosaic of Bobby Robson (may he be watching from heaven) and then when they walk up the stairs to the pitch and there's suddenly sunlight and old blurry footage of Bobby Moore pretty much saying, "come on, lads". It gets to me.
And, well, you all know I'll be cheering for Italy, but for one of the few times in my life (the Manchester Commonwealth games spring to mind as one of the others), I'm feeling patriotic about England.
Bloody good advert.
One of the best things about the World Cup build-up is the adverts.
The two I really like are the Pepsi Max one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiB3683PztQ), which is a fun advert, and really builds on the previous World Cup ad from 2006 where the tag was "play you for it". It also does the nigh on impossible of making Didier Drogba seem loveable ;)
The other is the Carlberg advert - http://www.youtube.com/englandteamtalk#p/a/u/0/66OuJZGDCHE(You might need to confirm your age for that one)
I don't know why, but there's something about the combo of the present sporting great and good (Steve Redgrave, Kelly Holmes), some fond old friends of the same ilk (Ian Botham, Foggy), the very stereotypical England fan costumes (nuns, crusaders), the unseen England team, where all you see is their backs (more analytically, genius way of getting round not knowing who would be going), a mosaic of Bobby Robson (may he be watching from heaven) and then when they walk up the stairs to the pitch and there's suddenly sunlight and old blurry footage of Bobby Moore pretty much saying, "come on, lads". It gets to me.
And, well, you all know I'll be cheering for Italy, but for one of the few times in my life (the Manchester Commonwealth games spring to mind as one of the others), I'm feeling patriotic about England.
Bloody good advert.
