[lit-ideas] Re: Crossing the Jordan
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:55:32 +0900
Even for someone who is only a lukewarm fan, this is a great description.
John
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Even those of you who have no idea why a football is round might be
> interested in Spurs' win in Milan today. The backstory: Spurs qualified for
> this league/tournament as amateur golfers do for the U.S. Open. Top pros
> are invited by dint of record; others must scramble their way in. And then
> Spurs went hopelessly behind in two of their early round games, which is to
> say that they had to make up two and even three goal deficits. They knocked
> out Inter-Milan, courtesy of their Welsh wonder Gareth Bale. Today they had
> to take on A.C. Milan, currently the best team in Italy, sans Bale. The
> entire Greek chorus that is the British press encouraged them towards a
> valiant and memorable defeat, possibly a nil-nil draw...something with
> Dunkirk spirit. What happens? They hold, and then win... in Milan, with a
> home game still to come.
>
> How annoyed were the Italians? The A.C. Milan captain, that would be he
> who wears the armband and below it the logo "respect," at the end of the
> match walks over to Spurs' assistant coach, Joe Jordan...and give him a
> Glasgow kiss.
>
> Joe Jordan is from a rough part of Scotland and has no front teeth,
> courtesy of a tangle with a goalkeeper a long time ago. And yet he remains
> calm. Spurs' manager was asked to comment on the finale. Instead of
> predictably pablum about how unsporting the A.C. Milan captain had been,
> Henry James "Harry" Rednapp, ever prompt with a quote, said something like
> (unfortunately the exact words have now been deleted from the BBC website,
> though the photo of Gattuso with his hand around Joe Jordan's throat is
> still there), "Between Gattuso and Joe Jordan, my money's on Joe." He
> seemed almost to regret the fact that Joe had not crossed the line.
>
> Who needs stage drama or tales of ancient battle when we've got "Harry and
> Joe go on holiday to Italy"?
>
> David Ritchie,
> not normally a Spurs fan in
> Portland,
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