The trouble with love memes or hate memes...

...is that they regularly run out of space. I visited the one at legomymalfoy's this morning and I could not believe that I was not able to register my high opinion of manraviel (one of the first fans I ever met who came across as a full-scale human being), the classy and thoughtful carlanime, ani_bester (one of the few people for whom the expression "nobility of soul" comes effortlessly), ac1d6urn (for the Crookshanks fics), angua9 (writes essays like I would like to think I would do if I were intelligent>, kennahijja (I think all her opinions are screwed up and near to criminal, but I'll fight anyone who does not admit that she is a writer of genius), caladan_dd (talent in human form). That, of course, is only about those who actually turned up on legomymalfoy's meme. The rest of you, look at my f-page's name: "Thank God for the following people."

The BBC commentators have a certain magical quality.

In the last Brazil match, they opened by repeatedly criticizing Ronaldo for being fat, slow and unfit, and they had great fun mocking Felipe Scolari's report of what Ronaldo's former manager at Inter had told him about the player - "even if Ronaldo is only at 60% on a given day, you have to play him, because he is the kind of player who can solve a match for you." They only stopped laughing and making fun when Ronaldo hammered home his second goal, surpassing Pele' as Brazil's all-time World Cup scorer and matching the greatest record ever.

This time they started by reminding us that the once-prolific England captain, David Beckham (for whom I have a great deal of respect) had not scored in twelve games. WHAM! Beckham scores what looks like being the deciding goal.

I wonder if I can convince them to say that Italy does not stand the least chance of winning the Cup?