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★mei ([personal profile] meitachi) wrote2010-06-23 08:09 pm

celebrate your victories while you can, England!



ENG 1-0 SVN


England Party Post | England Party Post 2

Let's celebrate before the inevitable heartbreak on Sunday with GER v. ENG. I can't lie, I'm not optimistic. But let's party it up while we can!

Mad props also to the USMNT for pulling off a (literal) last-minute win against Algeria. I don't even feel bad for Algeria anymore because apparently an Algerian player hit a female journalist post-match. What the shit is that, mate?


I'm not going to repost my tweets today because there are many and they are all incoherent. I have never been as stressed watching a game as I was with today's Group C games. Group D I was a little calmer about because chances were good the entire time that Germany would move on. :) And then Ghana got to move on too, yay! African nation representation!

So first let's have some Becks & suggestive, compromising pictures of footballers, as promised in the cut-text.


Capello & Becks in smart 3-piece suits, both very pleased.


Becks is somewhat less pleased with Rooney. Rooney, you did much better today than in previous games, but you still gotta step it up! Don't let the hair-depression get to you; Becks means well...

Honestly, the entire English NT did a hell of a lot better today than I've seen in their past games. They actually looked like they were trying and that they wanted to win. What is this actual running about and trying to score thing? Must be new.

Or, really, it's just the magic of the red kids. Even though they are polo-less.

(OT: My god I love Stevie's stupid accent. I love everything about him, dammit!)

(OT: Somebody stop me from writing footballer slash; I'm writing Akame, I swear.)

More Becks:




Old pics of Becks having a friendly tumble with everyone's favorite GK-captain:

(That's Iker, I mean. Becks/Casillas!)



On the topic of gay football loving...


Lampard & JT, before JT was a douchecanoe and slept with another teammate's ex-wife. Is it because Lampsy threw you over, JT? Or did he throw you over after your epic bout of Assholery? Oh well, I dislike you as a person, but as long as you're contributing on the pitch to England's win, I will keep my disgust and bitching to a minimum. Morals, I compromise them for sports.

(Tangential anecdote: David Villa escapes official sanction for his infraction during the Spain v. Honduras match, i.e., smacking a Honduras player in the face with the back of his hand. Extenuating circumstances, blah blah blah, he probably deserved to be suspended, honestly. But like I say: morals are for losers, and I'm selfishly glad Villa will still be around to keep scoring for Spain. Though here's hoping he's smart enough to figure out he was fucking lucky to get away with this so maybe he'll stop the temper tantrums in the bigger, more important games, and focus on not missing fucking penalty kicks.)

This is one of my favorite compromising-position-what-the-hell-are-they-doing-don't-they-know-how-that-looks football pics:

(Alas, I have no idea who the guy with his hands up Stevie's shorts is. My, Stevie's kind of a bicycle, isn't he? Everyone gets a ride. If I wrote footballer fic, there would be Stevie/everyone. It exists in my head.)



Another cute picture of Kaká because everyone seems to love him:


But, sorry kids, Kaká only his eyes for his BFF Ronaldo.



Fuck my life, you guys. I am starting to hate Ronaldo less and less. He is still a diva and stupidly theatrical on the pitch, but but - he and Kaká are BFFs who speak Portuguese together and play together on Real Madrid and call each other every night. Ronaldo called Kaká about his red card and said it was unfair! Do you see the way they giggle (manfully) together at the end of that video when they are asking each other questions?

asldkghdfjkl damn the slash fangirl in me, I'll never be able to unship this. Fuck.



But hey, Deustchland won! And looked damned fine in their black kits!









Their party post is here and for some reason features a ton of SPN gifs in the threads.



In conclusion, if ever there was reason to join [livejournal.com profile] ontd_football, it is for the locked post that celebrates the heart-stoppingly gorgeous (and evidently very bashful and sweet) Yoann Gourcuff.

Here is a sample of some of the pictures:




LOL


~*~This is the Yoann love post.~*~


Nando celebrates England's victory by trying to be a boybander:


Seriously, football's ruined my life. Why can't I stop spamming?

To all Canadians over in Ontario & Quebec: earthquake! I hope everyone is all right. ♥ What on earth is the world coming to?

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
ESPN3 is an online stream, not TV (http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=espn3). It plays the whole game, I'm pretty sure. I should've thought of this since it's where I was streaming the USA game, but I'm not sure whether all countries have the same access since ESPN's a US-based company. Maybe the other streams suggested by ontd_fb also have replays?

[identity profile] herocountry.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
.....i do not have access ;___; SOBS I WAS SO HOPEFUL ;_; posts sadly to ontd_fb tmrw

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
:( I was afraid of that. Aww bb how about ITV or Univision streams? I see those mentioned a lot.

Pretty sure you should have access to these two:
http://futbol.univision.com/world-cup-2010-south-africa
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/

:D
Edited 2010-06-24 02:51 (UTC)

[identity profile] herocountry.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
OGM OMG OGM OGM GOMGOM I THINK CBC PLAYS THE WHOLE THING ALL OVER I AM TESTING GHANA GERMANY AND IT SEEMS A+ OMGOMG OGMGOMGOM

YOU ARE THE BEST THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU OMG ♥_♥

[identity profile] meiface.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
♥♥♥ I do my best to facilitate football-watching, I guess? 8D