Nothing springs to mind ...

... Was considering this today, watching the highlights of France v Brazil in '86. The game was incredibly dramatic - 1-1, Zico misses a penalty, extra-time, shoot-out where Platini and Socrates miss (but Zico scores) and one of France's penalties shouldn't have stood, and they win 4-3. It doesn't *need* to be dramatised any further, and I think it's hard to contrive the kind of drama that football throws up (and even harder to act it out).

There's a brilliant football scene in 'Life is a Miracle', a film about the Yugoslav civil war where one of the central characters is about to sign for Partizan Belgrade. Well worth a look - the director (Emir Kusturica) is planning a documentary about Diego Maradona ...

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot on July 18th 2005 at 01:21:43

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Just watched "windtalkers" (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 00:37:13
- Have you seen Hart's War? (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 00:47:54
  - oh god is that the one where (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 00:59:09
    - Yeah, it is ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:09:48
      - oh shit (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 01:11:21
        
        Part of me thinks fair play to Sean Bean ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:13:18
        
        There's one with Ally McCoist (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:24:00
        
        Have you seen a truly shit brit flick about rugby called Up and Under? (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 01:29:55
        
        Hate rugby with a passion - therefore never watched it ... (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:35:44
        
        Called "A Shot At Glory" (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:28:19
        
        I can only imagine how bad that is ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:27:07
        
        SoulSeek: it's OK - I can wait (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:34:45
        
        hmmmm (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 01:17:33
        
        Nothing springs to mind ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:21:43
        
        might have to check it out (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 01:24:08
        
        Life is Beautiful was astonishing (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:29:55
        
        yep (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 01:30:33
        
        I enjoyed Life is Beautiful ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:26:23
        
        There's a good Maradona biog that I forget the name of (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:33:18
        
        haha! Highly likely (General Chat) - Stoopish, Jul 18, 01:28:43
        
        Watched the 'Hand of God' again today ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:35:27
        
        Doh! Of course - that's what the book's called (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:37:59
        
        Yeah ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:43:06
        
        He was already familiar with the delights of Coke before he went to Napoli (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:47:36
        
        And it's true that he nearly signed for Sheff Utd (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:51:01
        
        Yeah, they ended up with Alejandro Sabella instead ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 01:54:00
        
        Think you're right about Sabelle - not sure about Verde (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 18, 01:56:57
        
        Lucky I remembered where I saw it, then ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Jul 18, 02:00:42

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