Portrait of Cristiano Ronaldo
“Has the air of a French duelist without a scrap of wit, as though he’d been invented for the express purpose of being killed by Cyrano de Bergerac.”
Remembering Garrincha
One of football’s greatest players on the 25th anniversary of his death.
W.B. Yeats, Soccer Correspondent
Yeats heads to St. James’ Park to watch the second coming of the Geordie messiah.
The Genius of Baskeball and the Genius of Soccer
The difference between my two favorite sports.
A Statement of Principle
A pledge of loyalty to Harry Redknapp. Because the world needs splendid things.
Read More: Inelegant Repurposing
by Brian Phillips · January 23, 2009
Another South African politician assassinated. But the games will go on. Maybe.
This is my third or fourth time reading your line that likens CR to a witless French duelist and have to say I laugh harder each time I see it. When I picture him with a dandified moustache, tunic, and hose I laugh even harder. I’m guessing, too, if my mental image of Cyrano was shaped more by Gerard Depardieu than by Steve Martin, I’d laugh harder still.
With praise inflation the problem it is, I don’t like to toss words like brilliant around lightly. But that post and this site are truly worthy of it.