Germany - Spain 0-1 with Spain to the finals

[syncategorematic]

In the second half of the second half of the game, a bus driver abandoned his bus below our windows to run to the pub to check the score. he did not come out until the game ended.

I was following the online play by play at Fifa.com. I knew my internet updating was slow, because I heard it when Spain scored. And heard it again when the match officially ended.

The noise started slowly, building up. There is now not a second's quiet out there. Honking, mostly, the trumpet solo from "Rock Around the Clock" (we played it in grade eight band); Canadian hockey games tap out that rhythm too. Buses, cars, pedestrians fly the red and yellow flag of Spain. People passed by singing raucously; I do not know the tune of the Spanish national anthem, so I do not know if that is what they were singing.

I swear that twice I heard singing the tune of "Kalinka", of all things. I had figured that I heard it at NHL games in honour of Russian players or something, but in honour of a Spanish soccer match?

I do not think that they will stop much tonight.

Comments

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

My dice predict that Spain will take it all. Be prepared. Random win generation is doing amazingly well in the soccer pool. :)

[indicolite.livejournal.com]

Squee --- maybe I should have participated in our office soccer pool --- but your randomness ain't my randomness.

The final is Sunday. And no, we could not sleep all night for people screaming hoarsely outside. It's now eerily quiet.

[rootedinsong.livejournal.com]

Hey, I remember singing that song in chorus. :)

[indicolite.livejournal.com]

So did the Ottawa Children's Concert Choir when I was in grade five. I did not make it into choir, but I helped the friends I had in it through the phonology and semantics.

It's a fun song --- but has absolutely nothing to do with the state of soccer in Spain.