excellent Wales online world cup article

[Rjk]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/wales-crashing-out-world-cup-25645796?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

really well written and interesting I thought - not often you can say that

[BLUETIT]

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I read it this morning and thought it was a load of gibberish.

There you go, different people, different thoughts

[Don Corleone]

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I read it this morning and thought it was a load of gibberish.

There you go, different people, different thoughts

I totally agree, it was like reading a 15 year old’s English project full of big words they’ve learnt how to spell but not how to use correctly. It was difficult to read and made no sense in many places as they were trying way too hard to appear clever, amazed no-one at WOL thought to proof read it or edit it!

[poc]

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I read it this morning and thought it was a load of gibberish.

There you go, different people, different thoughts

im with you on this

[Don Corleone]

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And yes, it was complete gibberish

[fingers]

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Megan Feringa is the name of the writer, and you can click on her name at the top of the report. All her previous reports are in the same vein, trying desperately to take Eddie Butler's crown as a sports' wordsmith, but failing desperately. At one point I thought LOM had written it.

[jon1959]

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I read it this morning and thought it was a load of gibberish.

There you go, different people, different thoughts

That was very hard work to read - a constipated style with odd use of words at times.

I think I agreed with what she was trying to say - but Elis James, making a similar case, did it much better:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/dec/01/wales-fans-feel-pride-and-despair-but-not-anger-after-swift-world-cup-qatar-exit

[the other bob wilson]

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I think it's perfectly possible to feel proud of the squad for reaching the World Cup, but also very disappointed and almost let down by what happened once they got there. I agree that performances weren't convincing heading into the tournament, but, although our record didn't show it, we played a lot better and were a lot more competitive in our Nations League games this year than they were (the second half against USA apart) in Qatar.

Sorry to repeat myself here, but I'm honestly ready to be persuaded by someone who can put together good arguments against the opinion I voiced on here yesterday that not one member of the welsh playing, football management and coaching side came out of the tournament with their reputation enhanced or even unharmed - I don't see any saving graces anywhere.

As for the article, I honestly struggled to understand what she was trying to say.

[the other bob wilson]

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That was very hard work to read - a constipated style with odd use of words at times.

I think I agreed with what she was trying to say - but Elis James, making a similar case, did it much better:

https://www.theguardian.com/football...cup-qatar-exit

Yes, that's much better, that's more or less how I feel. Certainly not angry, but a little let down and disappointed. The results weren't a total surprise, but I think it's reasonable to have expected a better standard of performance.

[LeningradCowboy]

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I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Does anyone know what the "advent of ramen" means?

[lardy]

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Some of my favourite lines from that:


It brings on a lucid sense of feeling unmoored and drifting, like a cartoon astronaut who suddenly realises the tether hooking them to their spaceship has, miraculously, been cut. And space is cold.



Miraculously? Is that the right word?


Convention says no, but convention also maintains that a footballer with as many minutes as seasons one and two of Derry Girls on Netflix should not be capable of dragging his nation to the apogee of footballing success.

I don't know if this is supposed to be a big or small number. Or how many minutes a footballer should have.

Of course, those who momentarily take on a more rational football hat might consider the trail of red flags in performances lying in the wake of this past week....To place a more rational hat on one’s head at a time like this, to dig into that still raw, painful flesh, feels rash, if not to forget that taking on that hat is a sort of odd indulgence in a reality which is still technically new.

This is a very stretched metaphor.

Slowly, Wales fans became what can only be described as the Year 2 Dog, the one you trained to the utmost, telling yourself that he would not sit on the couch. He would not lick food off the dinner plates. And no, he would not be given his own advent calendar and Christmas stocking at holiday time. But here he is now, rolling on the couch beside you, his new Christmas turkey dog-friendly dental chew stick dangling at an adorably lopsided angle from his hairy, slobbery mouth.

There's other ways to describe Wales fans. That's not the only one. And I'm not sure what a Year 2 Dog is.



As I was reading it I could imagine Eddie Butler's voice - then I saw fingers post above. Eddie Butler used flowery language and metaphors, but you could always see why he used it and what he meant. I struggled with this one.

[lardy]

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I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Does anyone know what the "advent of ramen" means?

As far as I know, ramen has been around for a long long time. Maybe it means instant ramen.

[BLUETIT]

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I couldn't get past the first paragraph. Does anyone know what the "advent of ramen" means?

I thought it was a misprint

[BLUETIT]

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I’d love to know who translated it , for the original poster Rjk, to say it’s wonderful. ?

[J R Hartley]

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Some of my favourite lines from that:


It brings on a lucid sense of feeling unmoored and drifting, like a cartoon astronaut who suddenly realises the tether hooking them to their spaceship has, miraculously, been cut. And space is cold.



Miraculously? Is that the right word?


Convention says no, but convention also maintains that a footballer with as many minutes as seasons one and two of Derry Girls on Netflix should not be capable of dragging his nation to the apogee of footballing success.

I don't know if this is supposed to be a big or small number. Or how many minutes a footballer should have.

Of course, those who momentarily take on a more rational football hat might consider the trail of red flags in performances lying in the wake of this past week....To place a more rational hat on one’s head at a time like this, to dig into that still raw, painful flesh, feels rash, if not to forget that taking on that hat is a sort of odd indulgence in a reality which is still technically new.

This is a very stretched metaphor.

Slowly, Wales fans became what can only be described as the Year 2 Dog, the one you trained to the utmost, telling yourself that he would not sit on the couch. He would not lick food off the dinner plates. And no, he would not be given his own advent calendar and Christmas stocking at holiday time. But here he is now, rolling on the couch beside you, his new Christmas turkey dog-friendly dental chew stick dangling at an adorably lopsided angle from his hairy, slobbery mouth.

There's other ways to describe Wales fans. That's not the only one. And I'm not sure what a Year 2 Dog is.



As I was reading it I could imagine Eddie Butler's voice - then I saw fingers post above. Eddie Butler used flowery language and metaphors, but you could always see why he used it and what he meant. I struggled with this one.

Eddie Butler was a great orater to be fair.