John Harkes is a moron

One of my friends suggested to me that John Harkes is not an idiot for referring to the mythical nation of Slovania because it's possible that he's using the Slovenian pronunciation.  I was skeptical at the time, and now I know it's wrong.  He's an idiot.  There is no Slovania, the German coach's nickname is not Joe Chee, and the great Italian goalkeeper is not known as John Loogey Buffon.  That's a trifecta of stuppid right there from a supposed football expert.  No way a guy who likes to watch Joe Chee and John Loogey and the Slovanian national team is so much more sophisticated than the rest of us that he knows something about the pronunciation of "Slovenia" that the rest of us do not know.

I love being right.

Also, the Italian team are the Azzurri, the English are the Three Lions, and the South Africans are the Bafana Bafana.  There are the Elephants, the All Whites, the Indomitable Lions, Les Fennecs, the Seleccao, the Oranje,  the Black Stars, all sorts of variations on the color blue, and the Socceroos.   The German National Football team is Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft.  What does that mean?  It means "German National Football Team."  Those romantic Germans.   Imagine that on a poster, why dontcha? 




I love mocking the Germans.