Dawn

Dawn

Friday, June 25, 2004

Well, the Spanish football coach has decided that he is not as popular as he thought and tendered his resignation, just as he was about to be lynched.

But the England coach looks safe, despite a defeat brought about - a few of us think - by misguided strategy and tactics. The English fans clearly don’t feel as humiliated as the Spanish. But neither group can possibly feel as bad as the Germans, whose coach fell on his sword rather more quickly than his Spanish counterpart, after their defeat by the Czech Republic’s B team. I would have liked to give you the Spanish word for schadenfreude but there is nothing in my dictionary. Interesting that the Germans invented the concept.

Talking of words, I believe I have invented groinding. This is The grinding of [normally female] groins, a staple of Spanish TV. So, one of this year’s contenders for the brainless-summer-beach-hit features a young woman doing her stuff in front of 3 Masai warriors leaping up and down. Not surprisingly, their timing shows a complete disregard for the ‘music’. And who can blame them?

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