but who wins on hair possession this year?

[meitachi]

Happy Friday!

I want to offer my belated felicitations and fangirling to 1) Rafael Nadal for winning his record-setting seventh French Open (!!!), 2) the LA Kings for winning their very first Stanley Cup (!!!), 3) Jonathan Quick for having the most adorable child ever, 4) Fernando Torres for SCORING TWO GOALS IN EURO 2012 HOLY CRAP HIS UGLY HAIR IS WORKING AGAIN, and 5) England for not yet failing out spectacularly of the Euros. Stevie Gerrard is our captain! (Stevie Gerrard is a Red~ Stevie Gerrard plays for Liverpool, a Scouser born and bred~)

SO WHO WANTS TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THE EUROS??? And how Germany is rocking it? And how weird Piqué looks clean-shaven? And how great Ireland's fans are?

Or how great it is when footballers show off their thighs? I LOVE THIGHS.





Man, I cannot deal with my feelings for Nando and his hair. Seriously. Cannot. Why does he look like he belongs in a boy band here?



What is even happening here?



OH MY GOD GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY. WHO TOLD YOU THAT WAS ATTRACTIVE?



Hang on, I need to recover.



Perfect specimen of man, even with ginger beard? Pretty much.



(Sorry, G. Even your attractive gingerness cannot live up to Xabi Alonso.)

But lest I forget - and I would never - the German NT is the cutest:








[Insert 500 pics of Lukas Podolski smiling]

They are super hot:







Jersey exchanges are my favorites! Not just because of the shirtlessness (though, yes, that's a factor) but also because it's great to see how much respect there is between players no matter the team.

They also boast the most married bromance of all that will never quit:











Still going strong in 2012! Schweinski never dies.

Plus their coach does this lololol:




aslfkjkd no I have serious feelings too BUT THEY ARE TOO SRS LET'S JUST BE SHALLOW RIGHT NOW.

Comments

[suxing.livejournal.com]

okay see i was building up to a semi-thoughtful comment about football but then you had to go and post pics of xabi alonso and shirtless germans so now all i can say is nnngguhhfdlksajlfj-- *Q*

[meiface.livejournal.com]

hehehe thoughtful comments are overrated. Xabi Alonso is like the definition of classy and beautiful. I needed something to recover from Nando's hair!

I want both Spain and Germany to do well, but if it came down again to a Spain v. Germany game... i might be pulling for Germany this time. /o\

[catskilt.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Xabi Alonso is very hot.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

He iiiis. Liverpool misses him. :(

But I am happy Real Madrid is doing well!

[aworldinside.livejournal.com]

Hi Xabi!

Good lord that Torres haircut might rival the Patrick Kane mullet in the Poor Hair Choices by Professional Athletes Hall of Fame.

(Is that RVP in that shirt exchange gif on the right? Because um ... yeah).

[meiface.livejournal.com]

But Fernando Torres only scores when he has terrible hair! He had lovely hair during the World Cup and was met with a goal drought. :( It was quite tragic. I remember many pictures of him lying flat on the pitch looking miserable, lol.

It very possibly is! I admit I am a terrible football fan who does not care about Arsenal/the Oranje because I hold a grudge from the World Cup and mostly because time zones are terrible at keeping me up to date on football when it's not an international tournament. Hockey looks like it's going to be my main sport simply through the convenience of its schedule.

[aworldinside.livejournal.com]

lol. Oh, Fernando.

I'm an Arsenal fan, which is why I asked about RVP. I did like the Oranje for a while, but that World Cup final put an end to most of it. Just, awful. I'm all for Spain retaining their Euro title this year.

I hardly ever see live football because of time-zones too. Hockey is slightly more convenient, although it did mean I was losing it quietly at my desk at work when the Kings won. ;)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I'm a Liverpool fan, lol. So by default I sort of care about England because Steven Gerrard! Glen Johnson! Andy Carroll, shockingly...

And Torres. Who makes me the bitterest. Damn Chelsea.

NHL Awards this Wednesday; draft this weekend; but more importantly PRESEASON SCHEDULES ARE BEING RELEASED. :D :D :D

[aworldinside.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have decidedly mixed England feelings but for Stevie's sake (and Theo and Alex's) I'd like to see them do okay. Liverpool aren't my team as such but I like them a lot. :)

Damn Chelsea, always.

Yes, I saw :D The Canes one is ... pretty busy and also involves Columbus.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Sob, the Canes preseason is terrible. Definitely not any games I care enough about to make the drive down to NC. The Caps' is pretty boring too. On the plus side, the Flyers play the Hawks in Philly on 9/25 AND I WILL BE THERE. I MUST. :DDD

[aworldinside.livejournal.com]

Flyers/Hawks would be AWESOME. :)

[celerywench.livejournal.com]

Holy crap that is a beautiful ginger *_____*

Oh my the jersey exchange :O. Why are they exchanging jerseys?! Who are they for that matter?

I WANT TO HEAR YOUR SRS FEELINGS :O??! You should tell me them when we go see Brave - although all I know about football is...exactly what you is posted here :3 hot men and cheerful coaches, so I am either the perfect blank slate upon which to vent or yaknow...completely useless as a blank slate lol.

Also, I never saw the HuffPost one of Madison! AAAAAAH SO CUUUUTE! Esp the end when she tries to go over to her dad who is being interviewed and her mom is trying to catch up to her and keep her and she is like literally stretching out to go the other way ♥

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Dude, forreal, Xabi Alonso is like the Henrik Lundqvist of football. He is beautiful, always well-dressed even in casual sits, gorgeous wife, ADORABLE freaking kids, so so so classy always, on the pitch or off it. Ugh. Cannot even deal.

Oh my srs feelings are mostly rhapsodizing about how great the Germany side is, why Spain might struggle despite being the heavy favorites of the tournament, and the sociopolitical effects of major international tournaments such as these. But, you know, that requires coherency.

Excited for the awards! And Brave! And things! :D

[forochel.livejournal.com]

I have nothing much to say because, you know, CAMPING

but M. & I were reading in her tent the night of the Sweden vs Ireland game

and then there came these most dreadful howls

and we were very confused though I theorised a game must be on, though whether it was the cricket or football was up in the air

then M. rang her dad and it turned out Ireland was losing. which explained the howling.

SO THAT WAS THE CLOSEST I GOT TO WATCHING A EURO MATCH

[forochel.livejournal.com]

oh, and I'm terribly pleased that Stevie G got the armband. LONG PAST TIME, I should say.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

AGREED. And so far England has not failed out!

Re Ireland, yeah, I think they maybe...lost all their group games... But they had SUCH GREAT ENTHUSIASTIC FANS. It was awesome. And they were awesome. Hopefully Ireland does well enough to qualify again in the future!