Comments on: Egypt, football, and protest…but revolution?

By: farouk

farouk — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:23:04 +0000

ok sir , what about the lawyers who burned the algerian flags in cairo .
I am begging the egyptians to show as better than that . Now we understand why alaa and gamal sent the complet egytian show-biz to khartoom , it’s a film they made there , a big one , the experience of the actors gave its fruits , even the educated society is now involved in the mascarade , how can we hope that an arab lawyer could be respected outside ? especially after this ,burning the nationnal flag of a foreign country and gonig against all the internationnal laws . i feel sorry for theme.

By: Brains Like a Shoe » More on the politics of Egyptian football

Brains Like a Shoe » More on the politics of Egyptian football — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:54:05 +0000

[...] has more coverage about the politics of Egyptian soccer in which they also nicely summarized my post from yesterday. They write: Soccer is more than just a sport for Egyptians. A recent victory in [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:43:34 +0000

Wow. I guess the question is whether football is fanning or defusing these forces.

The French Revolution started with the Tennis Court Oath…

By: moses

moses — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:38:22 +0000

gamal and alaa mubarak were in the audience, in a pathetic attempt to appropriate the last thing in egypt they haven’t yet stolen–the occasional outburst of pride the average emotionally and financially distraught egyptian is still able to muster every now and then. and make no mistake, they were “cheering”…they are after all egyptian and have the same nationalist impulses the rest of us riffraff have…but only in spite of their political calculations…the fact that a nation half of which lives on $1 or less a day and a quarter of which is clinically depressed can still dance in the streets all night long scares the living daylights out of them and it should. instinctively, gamal cheers for egypt, but when he sits at his desk (presumably made of the human remains of subversives of every stripe, or just bought with the trillions stolen from me and my compatriots) and thinks about it, he wants egypt’s football team to be mediocre, like everything else in that shithole i love so much called egypt.

note that ‘rigal al-amn’ [the security people] made sure to seat gamal and alaa quite far apart…you never know might bring live ammunition to a military parade on october 6, 1981 or a loaded gun to a football stadium in november 2009. i suppose there’s always hope!