Azzurri in South Africa: The Long Flight Home

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON JUNE 28, 2010


So much for that.  While our boys scrub off the rotten tomatoes that met them at the airport, let's rehash every painful moment, shall we, so we can decide what went wrong and learn from it?  Hmmm?  Any takers?


Yeah, me neither.  I'd rather forget.   While we wait for time to dim the painful memories, perhaps it might be advisable to try on this thing called "optimism" and count our Azzurri blessings.  After all, it could have been worse.

"could have been worse?"  bleagh.    BRB.  Need to wipe puke from laptop.


Ahem.



REASONS WHY THE AZZURRI-FAIL IS NOT THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD


10.  More time for Morgan and Maggio to practice posing for the annual masterpiece known as the Napoli calendar.

9.   So long to the World Cup's FIFA World Cup (tm) 's ugliest kits.  Now that we've seen what Puma did for its other sides, we know for a fact that someone chose those abominations.  Because they were only around for a few days, perhaps the world will forget and Italia will retain its reputation as fashion experts. 

8.  Technically, the Azzurri were in it longer than France.  Hooray!

7.   There's still RoRo!  maybe.  possibly.  why, what have you heard? 

6.  Surely this is the end of the doucheboot craze, at least in Italy.  *crosses fingers*

5.  More time to perv on non-Italian Serie A players like Doni, for example.






OK--then more time to perv on Cesc, Felipe Melo, Diego Lugano, one of the various Nandos, Javier Pastore, Wesley, Kaka, [insert your favorite here], or even Carles Puyols or Martin Palermo if this applies to you, may God have mercy on your soul you poor deluded creature.

4.  Whatever superstitious reason was keeping DDR from getting a shower and a shave has GOT to be over with now, right?   Right?
3.  No longer have to pretend to be happy about a side that we all secretly believed was doomed.

2.  Can go back to hating Quags without him ruining it with his goddamned goals.    Bastard.

1.  Cesare is coming.  It can only get better, y/y?