Thursday, June 07, 2007

In Praise of The Beautiful Game

Finland 2 Belgium 0
(Helsinki)
... and the crowd roared his every turn ...

5 comments:

Matthew Rounsville said...

which wing is Belgium?

Paul Cowdell said...

Which ties in with another image that'd been in my head all week, of a bird flying over water with each wing-tip brushing different countries.

Matthew Rounsville said...

If its wings brush the countries I wonder what its shadow does. I always expect to find things in feathers--an image on the cover of one of the Arsenal issues catches that perfectly for me.

Blending of things--I'd just read a biography of Baudelaire, and was associating Belgium somewhat with dirty coffee and paralysis, now superimposed with feathers.

Anonymous said...

Stunning! Where did this occur?
Shibek

Paul Cowdell said...

19 minutes into a Euro2008 qualifier being played in Helsinki. It held up play for 6 minutes. There's a good YouTube clip at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPOS64vVo10&NR=1

Even for the rampant Belgophiles amongst us, it almost made up for seeing de Rode Duivels going down 2-0.