HEAR THE NEENER IN MY VOICE

Yesterday, while the United States were having their glutaei maximi handed to them on a shiny platter, this blogger was enjoying a lovely repast down in Chinatown at a place where the few customers didn't have any interest in Yankee sportive galumphing. Further down the street, as I passed puffing my post prandial pipe, it was quite different. Loud hoots, outside screens, sweating despair. It was a lovely meal. A quiet place where they know me, good food, one or two familiar faces, and plenty of milk tea.

The world seemed very far away.
So did abject misery.


The pipe is an old Dunhill, bent billiard, shape 56.
Very hard briar. Excellent smoke.


Not the warmest of San Francisco summer days, less than sixty degrees, slight wind. A city with small pockets of sportsfans becoming more and more unhappy as the game progressed. An excellent flue-cured tobacco blend.
Something Simenon might have smoked.
Or Captain Haddock.

Good triumphed over evil, despite Trump and Infantino's dastardly meddling. Belgium won against the USA. Decisively. Romped all over the Yanks. It was 4 to 1. Kicked their ass. Beat them to a red, white, and blue pulp. Thoroughly and deservedly. Les frites ont triomphé des bâtonnets de pomme de terre ramollis. Cuisine sank junkfood. The sturdy Flemish peasantry defeated the force of ghouls, and golden trinkets will be hung in the church of our lady; the beauty and strength of that great army was turned into a refuse-pit, and the glory of the Trumpite rabble made dung and worms. Dung and worms.

Civilization over barbarism.

Neener neener neener. Neener neener neener. Neener neener neener. Neener neener neener. Neener neener neener. Neener neener neener. Neener neener neener. Neener.

Bitches.



FAIR PLAY
[Clarification added for the terminally dense at 8:38 AM.]

What really gets my goat is that the United States cheated to get Balogun back in the game, and the United States Soccer team didn't object at all. Which means that anybody with even a gramme of honesty and decency could not in good conscience support the team. What other examples of cheating will come to light? Is this going to be like that Lance Armstrong thing where it turns out that America's champion was a lying cheating dishonest p.o.s. for years? And what does this say about the president, his officials, inner circle, and FIFA?
Well, I already thought that they were human garbage.
I did not need anymore confirmation.




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