Category: Sports

Currently, the penalty shootout is about to commence.

After full regulation time and 2 extra times, the score is tied at zero all but there were unbelievable millions of chances.

Pray people pray!!!

Go van der Sar! This is the time to erase the Ajax – Juventus game in 1996 from your mind!

1. Ibrahimovic missed!

2. OMG! Cocu hit the post!

3. THE DUTCH ADVANCES TO THE SEMIFINAL!!! YEAH!!! YEAH!!! YEAH!!! VAN DER SAR SAVED THE DAY!!! GO VAN DER SAR!!! GO DUTCH!!! DE OJANGE!!! GO HOLLAND!!! YEAH!!!

4. Bye people! I’m going to celebrate this by having a dinner in Chicago. GO DUTCH!!!
AND I LOVE YOU ADVOCAAT!!! MUAH!!! BUT I LOVE VAN DER SAR MORE!!! See you guys later tomorrow!!! IM SORRY FOR THE PREVIOUS HARSH WORD BUT NOW I LOVE YOU ADVOCAAT!!! GO VAN DER SAR!!! AJAX RULES!!! DE ORANJE!!!

p/s – I apologize for the word fuck in my previous post. I’ll do a Advocaat + the Dutch’s tricolor later. I need to watch this game!

Two quarterfinals, two winners, two losers and one whinner.

Portugal and (surpise, surprise!) Greece made it to the Semifinals. I am sure everybody does know that England lost to the Portuguese due to penalty shootout, no thanks to Beckham. Greece on the other hand surprised the whole world by beating the defending champion France by one goal.

In reference to the Portugal – England game, it is such a shame to see the English falling out of the championship. The English team and the sensational Liverpool player, Micheal Owen played well from the finish to the last. It would be exciting to see England in the latter stage but oh well. And Owen’s goal for England in the game, in my opinion is sizzling hot despite the fact he merely capitalized on a Portuguese’s defensive lapse. His footwork and the way the ball was shot passed the goalie is stunningly elegant. But all is lost, no thanks to Beckham, again.

About France and Greece, before the game started, I said somewhere to a few people, “Is there ever a doubt?”
It turned out, France did another, well, France.

And tomorrow will be the third quarterfinal. It will be between the Netherlands (YEAH!) and Sweden and it will be a close one as both teams seem to be attacking-minded. What is better, both teams have at least an Ajax player. In the de Oranje side, they are Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder and Johnny Heitinga; the Swede on the other hand has the Italian killer, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Dutch of course has tonnes of former Ajax players (van der Sar, Reiziger, van der Meyde, Davids, Kluivert, de Boer, Overmars and Seedorf)

Hup Holland Hup!

And oh, I forgot – one whinner, Italy.

The Netherlands – Latvia and Germany – Czech Republic.

To all de Oranje fans, me included, cross your fingers and pray hard.

1. de Oranje is on the road to the quarterfinal! The Czech has just made it 2 – 1 to their favor and the Netherlands is leading Latvia 2 to nil! w00t! w00t! w00t!

2. Makaay made it 3 – 0!!! YEAH BABY YEAH!!!

3. HOLLAND! HOLLAND! HOLLAND! We made it! We made it to the next round! w00+ BABY! w00+!

AUF WIEDERSEHEN, DEUTSCHLAND!

Thank you Galasek, Grygera and the whole Czech team!

p/s – ehem. Dedicated to de Oranje:

In Den Haag we stole the tulips,
On the Rhine we sailed the freight,
In Braga we sealed their lips,
And to Algarve, we’ll be alright.

Onwards to Lisbon!

pp/s – With Euro 2004 going on in Portugal, I’ve forgotten everything in the world but the world does not stop in Braga. In Iraq, a Korean was beheaded; in Malaysia, air quality is dropping due to terrible haze. I hope, during the Olympics, everything will stop.

Italy is on the brink of elimination. Currently, Sweden is one, Denmark is one. The same score goes for the Italy-Bulgaria match. If the situation continues to be the same, Italy will get the boot.

I could hear the Italians shouting “Defense! Defense!”…

1. Tomasson has just made it 2 – 1 for Denmark. Come on Sweden, one more goal! Make it a draw. Collude to dispose the Italian!

2. Italy is in big trouble. With 3 or 4 minutes minutes to go, Bulgaria is holding them down. Even if Sweden lose, Italy won’t have the taste of a Euro 2004 quarterfinal. This calls for a celebration!

3. It doesn’t matter any more. In the 89th minutes, Sweden made it 2 – 2. Italy won’t qualify no matter what.

4. Cassano has just scored for Italy but again, it doesn’t matter. Italy has been phrased out by the Scandavanian brothers.

5. Conspiracy theory is emerging. I’d say to these people, Italy is out. Fair and square.

Spain versus Portugal and of course, Greece versus Russia. But the latter game is not as big as the former.

Asier is most likely to cheer for Spain. He is a Spaniard but hey, he cheers for Barcelona albeit he is from Madrid.

So…

But then I am from Malaysia and have always cheered for Ajax and the Netherlands since I was probably 12 or 13.

So…

And finally, some sources have revealed that the Czech will field a second team. Juventus’ Pavel Nedved is certainly not going to play against the Krauts. This is going be tough for the Dutchies.

Please God please! Let the German and the Czech make a draw.

1. The Portuguese and the Greek have qualified for the next stage. Too bad for Spain.