Monday, April 08, 2013

Hell of a Beating

More thoughts on the dirt nap of the former supposed "Iron Lady" later, but here's perhaps the first thing I think of when I think of her;

This famous bit of insanity from the 1981 World Cup qualifier that an unfancied Norway had just taken from the England team. Here's the Norwegian text and the translation for those who have a hard time with the awful audio feed:

Vi er best i verden! Vi har slått England 2-1 i fotball!
(We're the best in the world! We've beaten England 2-1 at football!)

Det er aldeles uuuutrolig! Vi har slått England, England, kjempers fødeland: Loooord Nelson, Loooord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana, vi har slått dem alle sammen.
(This is truuuuly incredible! We've beaten England, England the fighters' birthplace: Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana - we've beaten you all.)

Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, jeg har et budskap til deg midt under valgkampen: Vi har slått England ut av verdensmesterskapet i fotball.
(Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, I have a message for you in the middle of your campaign. We have kicked England out of the football World Cup.)

Maggie Thatcher, som de sier på ditt språk i boksebarene rundt Madison Square Garden: Your boys took a hell of a beating!
(Maggie Thatcher, as you say in your language in the boxing bars around Madison Square Garden: Your boys took a hell of a beating!)

2 comments:

Lisa said...

It's not nice to kick a guy when he's down :( What've the Brits got: the Falklands, Gibralter ...?

Alas, soccer brings out the passion and the madness in a man's soul as little else can :)

FDChief said...

Any old bar fighter would tell you; that's WHEN you kick them! The Brits have never failed to put the boot in when their opponents were on the deck - so I have to give our mad Norwegian his props for understanding the great traditions of soccer and imperial geopolitics...