[lit-ideas] Re: Crossing the Jordan
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:07:48 +0000 (GMT)
Glasgow kiss? Not even a Glasgow puckering-up:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBklevC1mE
That's more a Kensington Kiss care of Burlington Bertie, as Joe's response
indicates. (To say Joe remains "calm" is only true relatively speaking).
The BBC site reported on the Captain's apology:-
"The Italian, making his 450th appearance for the Rossoneri, added: "I was
nervous. We were both speaking Scottish, something that I learned when I played
in his home city of Glasgow, but I can't tell you what we said."
This would likely be not Scots gaelic but a distant cousin of English spoken
only in Glasgow; a secret language passed from generation to generation and
impenetrable to outsiders, "Scottish" appears to consist only of the occasional
intelligible noun and verb strung together in a rapid rattle of guttural
noises; some linguists have tied this "Scottish" with its typical non-verbal
behaviours, like the "Glasgow kiss", speculating that its reliance on a primary
place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity reflects anticipation of
teeth and other bone objects, like fists, landing there. Or it could be they
were just both swearing, unprintably.
Donal
Closer to Arsenal than Tottenham
London
--- On Wed, 16/2/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Crossing the Jordan
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 16 February, 2011, 6:12
> 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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