6 Responses to “EURO 2008: Romania Leads Italy! Er, No, As I Type This It’s Tied Now! (With France and Holland to Follow!)”

1. Jen says:
   June 13, 2008 at 1:57 pm

   I had a very interesting evening with this game… I was at a reading in a bar – one room the author and the audience, the other football fans watching the game. We got cultured and also figured out the score by the moans or victory cries from the other room…

2. Jeff VanderMeer says:
   June 13, 2008 at 3:16 pm

   The Dutch are like half escape artists, half mathematicians.
   Jeff

3. Jetse says:
   June 13, 2008 at 8:14 pm

   Hey Jeff–

   This is payback time: for every story you ever rejected from a Dutch(wo)man….;-)

   (tongue-in-cheek-tongue-in-cheek-tongue-in-cheek!…;-)

   Or, to paraphrase Nick Mamatas:

   Are you jealous?

   Yes, you’re jeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllooooooooooouuuuuuuuuusssssssss!

   (NB: I know how hard we partied when we won in 1988. If we win this time, well, the best place to be in the Summer of 2008 will be Holland: it makes a superbowl win look like a teatime distraction… Really!)

4. Jeff VanderMeer says:
   June 13, 2008 at 8:28 pm

   Payback? Okay, you definitely have been drinking!

   VANDERMEER. No Frenchness there. ;)

   Seriously, though, Jetse–I LOVE Dutch football. They usually play a style that’s just wonderful to watch. I still can’t believe that third goal.

   JeffV

5. neilwilliamson says:
   June 14, 2008 at 3:16 am

   >I still can’t believe that third goal

   Ditto Jeff. The French had been playing pretty well up to that point, and then they finally scored and I thought uh-oh, so what did Holland do? Right up the other end scored back with a ridiculous goal!

   I’ve loved Dutch football since the growing up in the Cruyff era in the 70s, and I still do.

   Be interesting to see though what happens if they go behind in a game…

6. Chris Billett says:
   June 14, 2008 at 6:01 am

   What’d I tell you about the dutch! I love them, they are one third liberal drug taking hippy, one third sex encouraging deviants, and one third sexy football and I know, I know this sounds like the worst possible thing I could say but HOLLAND I LOVE YOU!