tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post1331325600600624435..comments2023-08-22T02:51:34.838-07:00Comments on Treasons, Stratagems & Spoils: revolutions and repressions on football sundaysroswithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05506297391055117723noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-58863575165356870442009-12-17T17:52:46.997-08:002009-12-17T17:52:46.997-08:00properly vcaa handles pinpoint universe toolbars n...properly vcaa handles pinpoint universe toolbars normandy fileselutex ubiquitous dest notably <br />masimundus semikonecoloriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-13226298030319451812007-12-07T07:30:00.000-08:002007-12-07T07:30:00.000-08:00SP: I'm overwhelmed, and so glad you enjoyed this!...SP: I'm overwhelmed, and so glad you enjoyed this! Thanks, and super-thanks for bringing up Juve, too. Their understatement and genteel lack of ostentation have always struck me as the real deal, kind of like English royalty dressing in shabby smocks and mucking about in the stables just because they can. [No wonder they think they're too good for football, mutter mutter.] Milan, on the other roswithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05506297391055117723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-1187413732551428002007-12-07T03:46:00.000-08:002007-12-07T03:46:00.000-08:00Hi Roswitha, just wanted to add to the chorus of p...Hi Roswitha, just wanted to add to the chorus of praise!<BR/><BR/>One of the things about Milan's gracious and/or smug old money classiness is that they can do this precisely because that throne has never been taken: for all the "vecchia signora" rhetoric, the Italian club who perhaps has most right to that role has never assumed it. And as for players embodying that style, Pirlo surely has to beSpangly Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00298207390810348915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-56498488685861445962007-12-07T03:21:00.000-08:002007-12-07T03:21:00.000-08:00That's incredibly kind! Thank you. :) For my part ...That's incredibly kind! Thank you. :) For my part I'd be quite willing to jettison my partialities to linger awhile in the northern half. When it comes to Zlatan, we're all just one big 80000-seater stadium -- or we should be. I'm really hoping Inter don't get themselves knocked out of Europe too early this time around: he's doing far too well at the moment.roswithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05506297391055117723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-77092764230468436992007-12-06T10:48:00.000-08:002007-12-06T10:48:00.000-08:00My pleasure, really.And should you ever come to Mi...My pleasure, really.<BR/><BR/>And should you ever come to Milano, we would be happy to host you at an Inter match, and even facilitate the purchase of a ticket for the other lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-35646925616818248222007-12-06T09:49:00.000-08:002007-12-06T09:49:00.000-08:00Ursus: thank you! [And I'm envious. You have a sea...Ursus: thank you! [And I'm envious. You have a season ticket to go see Zlatan play every other week! I would -- well, I don't know what I would do for that, but I'm damned sure it'd be very traitorous to Milan.]roswithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05506297391055117723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-19526991563462826652007-12-05T11:49:00.000-08:002007-12-05T11:49:00.000-08:00As a Barca socio who happens to live in Milano (bu...As a Barca socio who happens to live in Milano (but has a season ticket to Inter), let me add to the praise for this post. <BR/><BR/>Very nicely done, especially in seeing through the (oftimes self-generated) hype that surrounds both clubs.<BR/><BR/>I got here via Brian's blog, and will definitely be coming back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-89249352016164870502007-12-05T11:14:00.000-08:002007-12-05T11:14:00.000-08:00Linda: Thank you - you were inspirational in the b...Linda: Thank you - you were inspirational in the blogging of this blog! As I read McCarra's piece I felt uncomfortably familiar with some of the symptoms of decay he described, but he kind of wrecked his argument with the silly 'oh, they lack glamour, no one gossips about them' opening. [Obviously hasn't had his press pass for Milanello approved yet, has he.]<BR/><BR/> And yeah - I realise I roswithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05506297391055117723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-31584436237047594892007-12-05T11:02:00.000-08:002007-12-05T11:02:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.roswithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05506297391055117723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-10520389859879617522007-12-05T03:30:00.000-08:002007-12-05T03:30:00.000-08:00Roswitha, this is brilliant. It's precisely why I...Roswitha, this is brilliant. It's precisely why I can't help but look on Barca with one skeptical eye no matter how much I want to love them: the fact that they're precisely and consciously <EM>selling</EM> an ideal of populism and freedom seems to mean in some ways that the more uncritically you embrace them the further you get from the ideal you mean to embrace. You're buying something that's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-14136354571965646412007-12-05T00:39:00.000-08:002007-12-05T00:39:00.000-08:00I agree, this is brilliant.The thing is, I do like...I agree, this is brilliant.<BR/><BR/>The thing is, I do like Kevin McCarra's writing a lot of the time, and so I had high hopes when I saw the topic of his piece. Sadly, it's a bit of a missed opportunity. Yours, on the other hand, actually gets to the heart of the issue.<BR/><BR/>(To be honest, although I suffer through and love Barca's choatic romanticism, I spend a lot of time envying Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09807392842004716065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1176979512698973580.post-48301513009004645162007-12-04T17:18:00.000-08:002007-12-04T17:18:00.000-08:00excellent essay!excellent essay!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com