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I'm sure you've all heard the good news by now. I'm very proud and happy to announce that I have
been named the Minister of Information for the National Association Football Federation.
I very much believe in the future of this new, dynamic league, and hope to do my part to put
AssBallFed on everybody's lips.
Am I reading too much into Landon getting Dixie Dean's old jersey number? I realize they don't
retire numbers in association football, but Brazil and Argentina don't give the backup goalkeeper
#10, either.
It's just that 9 is a very low number to give to a guy that's just going to be renting, is all.
In his chapter on Brazil in The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, John Lanchester
writes:
"Most football writing is about that experience, one way or another; in the overall run of
writing about football, most of it is about the epiphenomenon of being a fan rather than the
phenomenon of the game itself.
One of my favourite books is Winter: Notes from Montana by Rick Bass. It is a diary of sorts about
Bass and his partner moving to a remote valley in the Northwestern USA, near Yaak, Montana. He
arrives just in time to begin preparations for the ferocious Montana winter. He knows that foot
after foot of snow will come and render him housebound for weeks at a time.
The football organisation FIFA (International Federation of Association
Football) has named on their official Website Arsenal hotshot Carlos Vela as one of the promising
talents to have a chance to win the "Best Young Player Award" for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2010
in South Africa.
