Italy vs. France
What's going on here? I am not a soccer fan — I don't even like soccer — but I've been glued to my computer "watching" the game as live text on the BBC website gobbling down some yogurt for lunch. That's not like me: I've been taken over by aliens.
This is the last minute of extra time and it looks like we are going into penalties. Sigh. But I am enjoying the BBC coverage; maybe it's the novelty. The language is as entertaining as the game (well, I am not really seeing the game, am I?):
"Florent Malouda nutmegs Fabio Cannavaro"
"Thierry Henry skins Gennaro Gattuso on the left"
"Zinedine Zidane… headbutted Marco Materazzi in the chest."
A quick search on Google found that "to nutmeg" means to "to push the ball through a defender's legs" (quoted from the USAToday World Cup glossary of terms). At least I am learning something.
Back to "watching".