I'm currently working on a piece about East Germany, and one reader requested some material about Scotland (unusual, but I will oblige, out of duty to the site's swelling legion of fans), so the wheels are in motion...
In the meantime, here's a run of play that I absolutely love...It also features one of the greatest bits of shamelessly biased, hilarious announcing ever encountered in sport. Mladen Delic manically progresses from coaching the great Safet Susic (" ne sam, Safete! = not alone, Safet!), through pessimism and fatalistic clock watching, all culminating in a timeless display of giddy bewilderment. This match eliminated a strong Bulgarian side from EURO 1984 qualifying but is remembered more for the mercurial announcer than for Ljubomir Radanović's goal. This is great football, typical of the early-mid '80s in east-central Europe, but you should pick up a bit of Serbo-Croatian for the clip's full effect (the relevant material ends at ~ 1:57).
21 December 1983
Yugoslavia 3: Bulgaria 2
Poljud Stadium (Split)
"Ljudi moji je li to moguce?" (people, is this possible?)
Thanks, drvosjecaF
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I KNEW you liked my post idea! Maybe if you're lucky and your material is REALLY good, I'll let you be a guest blogger over at my blog home. Something to aspire to. You could write about how the British probably butcher the word onomatopoeia.
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