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Monday, December 24, 2007

Estimat Frank

I don't know where to start, I don't know where to end. I always had faith in you, I always believed in you, I always thought that you will cut it in the end and all of the stuff said about you, regarding tactical inflexibility and whatever else was just rubbish.
I knew and expected you to be better, the best possible coach this team can have and your level of tactical knowledge good enough.
So please tell me, how could you blow it that bad last night?
Ok, you gambled on Ronaldinho's pride. Well, the guy has no pride, but either way, you gambled. But why didn't you take him off once you should have realized that he is not working?
Henry was not fully fit, fair enough, you didn't play him. But why didn't you bring in Gudjohnsen as an example to help out Eto'o in attack, to hold the ball for him, to play in his path, to do something apart of letting him die upfront alone against Cannavarro and Pepe? Why didn't you react to the fact that Yaya, who btw. was one of few players outstanding and playing like a man, being pressured by Van Nistelrooy and Robinho, to the man-to-man defense of Baptista against Xavi or anything else?
Why didn't you try to solve the problems but instead of that brought in Giovani, who wasn't the cure of the problem?
Why Frank? What did you try to prove with playing Ronaldinho for 90 minutes against Ramos, knowing that he is lost? Why didn't you tell him to switch sides with Iniesta, to move at all, to do something, anything? Why didn't you react??
You let me down, you let us down, you went from Frank White to Frank Elsner.
If you have enough and want to retire then do it, but you don't need to blow a game like that, because in the end, you took the decisions of that game and you blew it, as sorry as I am to say it.
I'm not over this defeat and I won't be for some time. Yesterday you officially declared that an era was over.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

S'acaba una era

London Calling for Ronaldinho

And I heard that he likes theatre..



btw. doesn't he look like Scarface?


Thursday, December 20, 2007

For thousand reasons

For Messi
For Last Season
For Eto'o
For Milito
For the two chulos Schuster and Mijatovic
For Getafe
For Cannavarro
For Henry
For Ronaldinho
For Antena 3
For Tomas Roncero
For Rijkaard
For Barca
For the people who pay your wages
For the fans
For Jose Maria Aznar
For Marca
For Fabian Ortiz
For that Rabbit
For the end of the cycle
For history
For your pride
For the shame of last season
For Txiki
For Manuel Vazquez Montalban
For Sant Jordi
For everything said about you since last year
For Partido Popular
For the fascists
For Zapatero
For the record
For Me and all other socis
For Rashid
For 1000 more reasons...

Sunday, December 16, 2007

The Dutch Frank White

I talked before about Rijkaard's role and compared to movie characters. I guess he has found his role now, he is Frank White.


He is a good and nice gangster, with warm heart, but he's still a gangster.



I'm extremely bad in photoshopping btw. but I'm good in knowing Biggie lyrics by heart. If anyone could do this one with Rijkaard and Eto'o's face on it, he or she will have a special place in my heart.



I grew up a fuckin screw-up
Got introduced to the game, got a ounce and fuckin blew up
Choppin rocks overnight
The nigga Biggie Smalls tryin to turn into the black Frank White
We had to grow dreads to change our description
Two cops is on the milk box missin
Show they toes you know they got stepped on
A fist full of bullets a chest full of Teflon
Run from the police picture that, nigga I'm too fat
I fuck around and catch a asthma attack (*heavy breathing*)
That's why I bust back, it don't phase me
When he drop, take his glock, and I'm Swayze
Celebrate my escape, sold the glock, bought some weight
Laid back, I got some money to make

Friday, December 14, 2007

Barely Breaking Even




There was a discount offer at BBE and although I could use my santa money for something else, I somehow had the urge to spend the money on some records I always wanted to buy but never did.
The offer was 50% off on everything. In the end, I ordered 4 CDs I might have been able to download too, but I felt like supporting good music, so I did.
Somehow, I have little problems downloading music from majors, but even then, if the album was good, I still go and support it.(I realise that I talked about this in some post before, but either way..)
But I can't do anything else but support BBE. BBE is a label run by Pete Adarkwah, who is also an Arsenal fan, like all decent people in London. It's run by music fans and it gives the people working with them an incredible amount of freedom. When a record is released on BBE, you really feel that these guys are real fans of music and they released an album they would buy and listen to themselves.
They also had a pretty big 11th anniversary party, where DJ Premier and Marley Marl were on the decks. I personally would have broken an ankle to be there, but couldn't make it by any means to London.(Jazzy Jeff was at their 10th anniversary...that's leg and ankle)
Either way, I personally believe that music needs more labels and people like Pete, BBE, ABB, Saddle Creek, Ed Banger and whatever else. These people really try to change music and the way the industry is going. If you like music, support is a must for these people.