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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Sunday, June 30, 2002 |
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I really get the feeling that this has been a watershed for football in Japan. The national league is only a decade or so old, but during this month I think that football- and, more precisely, the watching of football- has come of age. Even now, there's talk of the next World Cup in four years' time.
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The final's just finished- a 2-0 win to Brazil.
I think I lost interest somewhere during the second half- the websites in the previous posts are evidence of this.
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This weblog, called BookNotes, looks interesting...
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And another for Brazil...
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Brazil have just scored!
I'm supporting Brazil (even though they beat England), basically because they're not in the EU...
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Is this a football match, or a pantomime?
It's rapidly descending into farce, as one of the Brazil players manages to put a replacement shirt on back to front. Not just once, either...
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Well, the match has started, but I have to say it's a strange feeling- it doesn't feel like the final of the World Cup at all. I wonder whether it's because I'm watching a match between two countries to which I have no connection, in a country which (no matter how close I feel to it) is not my own?
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Fifteen minutes to the kick-off. Of course there's a sense of excitement, but there also seems to be a slight melancholy, a sadness that the month has come to an end. The commentators seem to be spending more time looking back over the previous matches than speculating about the final to come. I suppose it's not that surprising, though- it's been a good month for Japan, I think.
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Finally, some rain worthy of the rainy season. It's coming down so hard that the air is white, and it be bouncing about a foot off the pavement.
Going to Hiroshima is going to be fun in this weather...
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