I think a sports thread is needed Isn't there one?
I understand what you say sparkleav - but I also hope you feel when I say: Denmark moving forth to final stage is not a matter of generic thread, to me - that joy should be deep.
I actually noted Southampton last season and hoped, and when Leicester was at the top at Xmas break I hoped some more. Such things get praise easy - Denmark hockey not.
I have to agree, that the joy you feel when the team you support or your national team win something big should come from the heart. Saying that, I don't really support the England (football team). I don't watch cricket as I find it boring lol
Ah well, Finland did prove to be too hard a nut to crack for Team Denmark. But I didn't really expect Denmark to win - we have a very good team and we can occasionally tease the big five or six but Team Denmark is still not quite as strong as the top teams. Maybe next time!
Ah well, Finland did prove to be too hard a nut to crack for Team Denmark. But I didn't really expect Denmark to win - we have a very good team and we can occasionally tease the big five or six but Team Denmark is still not quite as strong as the top teams. Maybe next time!
Oh thx, Tresor. It'll be Finns doing "Frans" in hockey - flying Scandi ccolours that is. Here's hoping!
DK. I'd say there is very soon the next time, and after about five times, or maybe less - Denmark will be there, in top four. And then... the critical mass.
Had it been anyone but FI, I'd have wanted DK to win, even if I would not have expected it either. FI was ok, but it was a routinely win - but getting to that point of experience was a slow grind.
I am probably too soft hearted to be a proper sporting fan, but I actually felt bad about goals two and five after highlights. Quite the decisive was unfortunate clearance by Lassen that became, well "own goal" - and last one was lapse of concentration after taking out the goalie did not work out. But at least FI did not head-tackle any DK player - that was good!
But DK has been a joy to watch for a couple of years, and we shall keep at it, shall we? :-D
And FI sporting press gave quite some interest to Danes - and teased that record hockey audience of 117k was at par with best children' program audience. FI is 2M plus, for info - but so shall DK, I think - in fullness of time. :-)
Never, 'leav - we'd do no such thing, only we were watching hockey. Rather we await u to tell us, but not seriously, because should you do, it'll be open.
UK could be quite good in hockey, I am sure - if anyone would bother to have it as a hobby. But no-one really does.
I must ask you this: we Finns know Swedes are "Tre Kronor." Our team is "Leijonat" - or lions, based on the logo of our crest symbol. (NB: this is separate from our less impressive footie team "huuhkajat" - based on an city-owl spectacularly once disturbing a match.)
What would team Denmark be called?
If naught - I think you should write to your national broadcaster to provoke that thought.
But also veering this back unto ESC, too - nervous about RU-FI hockey on Sat obviously - I almost feel I must prove I am easily taken in with Eurovision.
Moldova in 2005 - "Grandma beats the drum."
"Boonika bate dobaIt'' It is hard to classify, which is a compliment. Ethno-funk?
I have to agree, that the joy you feel when the team you support or your national team win something big should come from the heart. Saying that, I don't really support the England (football team). I don't watch cricket as I find it boring lol
You never saw Bollywood move "Lagaan" or Inspector Morse episode "Deceived by Flighgt," pray sparkleav?
"Art imitating life" - to be playful. Cricket can be made to look interesting, to say the least!
I am myself cold and bothered about footie Finnish main national team - "huuhkajat" that is - relatively the men are absolutely rubbish compared with women's team.
I have to agree, that the joy you feel when the team you support or your national team win something big should come from the heart. Saying that, I don't really support the England (football team). I don't watch cricket as I find it boring lol
You never saw Bollywood move "Lagaan" or Inspector Morse episode "Deceived by Flighgt," pray sparkleav?
"Art imitating life" - to be playful. Cricket can be made to look interesting, to say the least!
I am myself cold and bothered about footie Finnish main national team - "huuhkajat" that is - relatively the men are absolutely rubbish compared with women's team.
I haven't watched a Bollywood movie in forever and I'm a British Indian lol. My dad loves cricket and always watched it, therefore I hate it! I did once watch a movie about cricket, I think it was a 3 part TV movie or something, it was really good but I can't remember what it was called.
As for England playing hockey, there are hockey teams out there, they just don't take it seriously enough like you said
Oh yes, you are correct, I haven't started a thread on sports... please feel free to do so
@sparkleav Lagaan and Deceived by Flight, as in Morse. Thank me in your own time! ;-)
I consider cricket and rugby "commonwealth" sports - but also hockey is "northern" and I am all for it. Only, oh, Morse never could have Lewis play hockey could he? Pity that.
I do not easily like anyone losing, and feel deeply about niche joys - so generic thing would be not natural to me. I think.
Goodness my nerves - but there we have it, Finneous!!
Is it just me, or did it appear also to you that the referees were trying to give RU a helpful push towards the final? I may well be biased, but I though the last two late penalties were sort of... lightly given...
And that boy Aho, wow! I mean literally, 18 is so young... Glad also my favourite Jokinen got the winning goal!
I remember having to sing the Canadian national anthem every morning at school when I lived there, I think I was the only one who actually enjoyed it I have no idea what that has to do with this thread except for @FinneousPJ just saying 'O Canada'
@sparkleav I like the Canadian anthem. It's certainly better than the US one!
Another South Park fancier, eh? :-p
I do like Canada's better than ours (it's bit ... boring, I find) but my absolute favourite is Italy's "Fratelli d'Italia." I have to admire when someone is "ready to die" in a major-key - quite convincingly but not excessively aggressively! And it's charmingly polytheistic too: God has created Victory a slave to Rome, apparently. Hope to hear it in Hockey WC one day soon - Italy is only one division below I believe.
USA-Canada was a thrilling match I must say: I almost hope it will not be as tightly fought a match for the final as I fear, my poor nerves and such like, lol.
Hope of ESC double might have been crushed quite brutally, but apparently triple of U18, U20 and men WC is yet to be done, so definitely hoping for that!
Well, I am trying to see it more neutrally, meaning that with audience obviously supporting the host nation, and maybe at some level even the referees recognising that having hosts go far makes for a successful tournament, it is only humane not at least be harder on the hosts.
I thought Brazil footie WC was a supreme example of that, even if that's just my interpretation. The result was them getting further than was maybe deserved on sporting performance, and that legendary humiliation at hands of DE.
Game yesterday was still ok in comparison to 2014 final in Belarus, which turned out to be a self-serving politically motivated refereeing fiasco, to put it boldly, against RU coincidentally.
28 minutes of penalties when FI is normally pretty sportsmanlike, feigning of injury (no other top team but RU really does it) to get one of our players shown showers, and marking a power-play goal two seconds earlier in retroact because it meant FI had further 20 seconds of power-play to suffer. (Because two seconds earlier it was 5-to-3 power play)
And to top it all off, Swiss IIHF president Faisel enthusiastically embraced president Putin once Russia's gold medal was secured. Besides, pro Krim-conquest flags were allowed in the stands. Maybe it is a mere coincidence, but the US referee Kaval got a contract to referee in RU national league after this performance...
I admit I saw the result yesterday as bit of vindication of this quite the bitter experience...
That actually sounds quiet frustrating. I can only comment on the football side as I don't watch hockey (obviously). I agree that the officials are often harder on the hosting team as they have the backing of the majority of fans in the venue. Sometimes though the teams are not only competing against the opposition but the officials as well in which there have been rumours of corruption in the past, I don't know if there has ever been any proof of this but you do feel when decisions go against particular teams consistently that there's something not quiet right.
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Meanwhile who is looking forward to Euro 2016? Let's make a new thread for that.
Good luck in the semi final @TStael and @FinneousPJ!
DK. I'd say there is very soon the next time, and after about five times, or maybe less - Denmark will be there, in top four. And then... the critical mass.
Had it been anyone but FI, I'd have wanted DK to win, even if I would not have expected it either. FI was ok, but it was a routinely win - but getting to that point of experience was a slow grind.
I am probably too soft hearted to be a proper sporting fan, but I actually felt bad about goals two and five after highlights. Quite the decisive was unfortunate clearance by Lassen that became, well "own goal" - and last one was lapse of concentration after taking out the goalie did not work out. But at least FI did not head-tackle any DK player - that was good!
But DK has been a joy to watch for a couple of years, and we shall keep at it, shall we? :-D
And FI sporting press gave quite some interest to Danes - and teased that record hockey audience of 117k was at par with best children' program audience. FI is 2M plus, for info - but so shall DK, I think - in fullness of time. :-)
UK could be quite good in hockey, I am sure - if anyone would bother to have it as a hobby. But no-one really does.
I must ask you this: we Finns know Swedes are "Tre Kronor." Our team is "Leijonat" - or lions, based on the logo of our crest symbol. (NB: this is separate from our less impressive footie team "huuhkajat" - based on an city-owl spectacularly once disturbing a match.)
What would team Denmark be called?
If naught - I think you should write to your national broadcaster to provoke that thought.
Moldova in 2005 - "Grandma beats the drum."
"Boonika bate dobaIt'' It is hard to classify, which is a compliment. Ethno-funk?
"Art imitating life" - to be playful. Cricket can be made to look interesting, to say the least!
I am myself cold and bothered about footie Finnish main national team - "huuhkajat" that is - relatively the men are absolutely rubbish compared with women's team.
I haven't watched a Bollywood movie in forever and I'm a British Indian lol. My dad loves cricket and always watched it, therefore I hate it! I did once watch a movie about cricket, I think it was a 3 part TV movie or something, it was really good but I can't remember what it was called.
As for England playing hockey, there are hockey teams out there, they just don't take it seriously enough like you said
Oh yes, you are correct, I haven't started a thread on sports... please feel free to do so
I consider cricket and rugby "commonwealth" sports - but also hockey is "northern" and I am all for it. Only, oh, Morse never could have Lewis play hockey could he? Pity that.
I do not easily like anyone losing, and feel deeply about niche joys - so generic thing would be not natural to me. I think.
Is it just me, or did it appear also to you that the referees were trying to give RU a helpful push towards the final? I may well be biased, but I though the last two late penalties were sort of... lightly given...
And that boy Aho, wow! I mean literally, 18 is so young... Glad also my favourite Jokinen got the winning goal!
Now good luck against Canada or the USA!
I have no idea what that has to do with this thread except for @FinneousPJ just saying 'O Canada'
I do like Canada's better than ours (it's bit ... boring, I find) but my absolute favourite is Italy's "Fratelli d'Italia." I have to admire when someone is "ready to die" in a major-key - quite convincingly but not excessively aggressively! And it's charmingly polytheistic too: God has created Victory a slave to Rome, apparently. Hope to hear it in Hockey WC one day soon - Italy is only one division below I believe.
USA-Canada was a thrilling match I must say: I almost hope it will not be as tightly fought a match for the final as I fear, my poor nerves and such like, lol.
Hope of ESC double might have been crushed quite brutally, but apparently triple of U18, U20 and men WC is yet to be done, so definitely hoping for that!
@Montresor_SP thx!! :-)
I thought Brazil footie WC was a supreme example of that, even if that's just my interpretation. The result was them getting further than was maybe deserved on sporting performance, and that legendary humiliation at hands of DE.
Game yesterday was still ok in comparison to 2014 final in Belarus, which turned out to be a self-serving politically motivated refereeing fiasco, to put it boldly, against RU coincidentally.
28 minutes of penalties when FI is normally pretty sportsmanlike, feigning of injury (no other top team but RU really does it) to get one of our players shown showers, and marking a power-play goal two seconds earlier in retroact because it meant FI had further 20 seconds of power-play to suffer. (Because two seconds earlier it was 5-to-3 power play)
And to top it all off, Swiss IIHF president Faisel enthusiastically embraced president Putin once Russia's gold medal was secured. Besides, pro Krim-conquest flags were allowed in the stands. Maybe it is a mere coincidence, but the US referee Kaval got a contract to referee in RU national league after this performance...
I admit I saw the result yesterday as bit of vindication of this quite the bitter experience...
I agree that the officials are often harder on the hosting team as they have the backing of the majority of fans in the venue.
Sometimes though the teams are not only competing against the opposition but the officials as well in which there have been rumours of corruption in the past, I don't know if there has ever been any proof of this but you do feel when decisions go against particular teams consistently that there's something not quiet right.