“I ran back into a sea of jumping and dancing people. They were up on tables, under tables, going wild. It was like I’d come out the wrong door. Kissing, hugging, skipping, there were men virtually having sex with each other in front of their wives and girlfriends.”
- Roddy Doyle on Kevin Sheedy’s 1990 World Cup goal vs England in My Favorite Year
What a game!!! Sporting event of the decade in this country!! Can’t believe I wasn’t there.
Love this photo. Especially the guy smack bang in the middle dressed all in black. It’s like spot the odd guy out. Looks like he is at a funeral
16 Nov 09 at 11:08 am
[...] All Whites making the World Cup finals All of a sudden it’s 1982 again. I’m sure I’m not the only one who this qualification kind of sneaked up on. I wasn’t paying that close attention to the qualifiers, and then suddenly we were two games away, and suddenly the whole country went All Whites crazy and suddenly everyone was calling it ‘Football’. Wonders never cease. For a country used to grim, po-faced ’support’ of its Rugby heroes, where Grizz Wylie’s statuesque pose when watching matches is seen as a model for manhood everywhere, not, perhaps more appropriately, something to lean on to keep warm, the Latin explosion of noise and color in the Caketin that night could change our country’s sporting landscape forever. Could. Anyway. We really have something to look forward to this year. Leg Break or ‘lucky git’ as he’s known around here, will be our man in the Guardian’s Fan thingo. [...]
sport review · Kicking 2009 when it’s down
12 Jan 10 at 9:52 pm