Euro 2012

Jun. 18th, 2012 04:42 pm
redfiona99: (football)
[personal profile] redfiona99
He's going to end up on the losing side, but Olaf Mellberg is still magnificent. Edit: I may have spoken too soon. Son of edit: Apparently all I did was encourage Mellberg. Edit 3: Even if they are the losing team, Mellberg will not be at fault.

I'm happy that Carroll scored. Yes, I know he's a dim thug, but I like him.

I choose to pretend Ukraine vs France didn't happen.

~~~~

Poland vs Czech Republic - Tyton is v. bendy.

Mick McCarthy on the new extra linesmen - "There's now 5 of them that can't make up their minds instead of 3."

Also re: the commentator's descriptor of 'uncompromising' - "that means dirty". They should have either Mick McCarthy and Mark Lawrenson on all the commentaries, they put it into the correct perspective.

I sense UEFA may make changes to how they decide who goes through following this.

Also, while I understand why people don't like the idea of expanding the Euros, I think it's to make up for two teams getting host places when it's joint hosts which I can understand, because I think we're only going to get more joint hosted tournaments.

~~~~

The Grauniad made a funny howler today, they were reporting Michael Laudrup getting the Swansea job. And illustrated the report with a picture of Brian Laudrup. Who doesn't actually look that much like his brother.

~~~~

Saw the Swedish version of "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Noomi Rapace is a little bit good, isn't she. I accidentally guessed who the criminal was because I misheard what someone was saying - I was sort of trying to follow as best I could without relying on the subtitles too much but it held my attention despite that. Even with me spending time trying to decide if the lead actor was wearing a wig.

I'm not sure how you could do it as a US-set adaptation, not because of anything in the content, just this feeling of the connection between man and land that's been a thing in every Swedish thing I've ever read (my Mum may have pre-empted this thing for Scandinavian thrillers just because she's a detective novel addict), and I'm not sure why, even if it meant a directing job for David Fincher, who I really rate, and an acting job for Daniel Craig, who I love as an actor, you'd do an English-language version set in Sweden.
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

Profile

redfiona99: (Default)
redfiona99

June 2025

S M T W T F S
12 34 56 7
8 91011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 10th, 2025 08:08 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios