Yesterday I posted this picture of me, Keir and some Brazilian fans whom we'd met in our hotel bar in Cologne. We had a lovely time, we watched my friends the South Koreans shock France, and we generally had a really good night off from working. There were other people in the bar that night, in fact there were other people in that photograph, but I cut them out because the post was about the Brazilians we'd met that night. No offence was meant, indeed the man I cut out from the right of the picture, Joseph, was lovely and I bought him a beer.
Here is the picture in full with Joseph on the right. Joseph is a Togo fan, and I took his picture separately to put elsewhere on Lee's site as we were a bit short of Togalese fans (not surprisingly we later ammeded the story)! What I didn't find out about Joseph until the next night, after we'd had a beery session the night before, was that his full name is Joseph Kokou Koffigoh, and he is the former Prime Minister of Togo!
It came up in conversation this afternoon - in a "I'm assuming you had no idea who that was?" kind of way. We had a laugh about it, then dismissed it, but when we returned from a days filming today, we bumped into Joseph getting out of his cab having returned from the game today (Toga lost to Switzerland 2:0 and are out of the World Cup). We walked into the reception with him and he said "hi boys, I'm going to watch the Ukraine v Saudi game can I buy you a beer". So, we spent a quite surreal evening drinking beer again with the former Togalese Prime Minister, who off the record was happy to discuss his thoughts with us about the Togalese team threatning to strike, his country's passion for football and what their first enty into the World Cup finals meant to his country. I can't share these thoughts, though, as he fears that saying anything on the record about it could cause trouble back home, and you know what - I believe him!
This trip just gets more incredible every day!
Stu ;-)
To find out the extent of the problem they have asked all men with a penis smaller than 3 inches to put a white flag with a red cross on their car.GooD luck
Posted by: Jennifer Stone | September 19, 2011 at 12:29
I am interested in it for a long time! So Ronaldinho goes out to play Scotland by himself and the rest of the Brazilian team go off for a few jars.
Posted by: russische frau | May 30, 2011 at 11:11
My apologies to 99.99999999% of England fans for my racist jokes, (blame Dan for that!!) I will be one of very few Scots behind England this world cup. "come on England"
Posted by: Dave Macca | June 24, 2006 at 11:44
Just read in the paper that the government is worried that mens penis's are gettin smaller. To find out the extent of the problem they have asked all men with a penis smaller than 3 inches to put a white flag with a red cross on their car.
Posted by: Dave Macca | June 24, 2006 at 11:39
Beckham at a press conferance. "I like em coz they taste nice & make my breath smell gud" The reporter (Chic Young)shouts back. "TACTICS! NOT TICTACS YOU THICK TWAT" ;)
Posted by: Dave Macca | June 24, 2006 at 11:17
It is just before Scotland v Brazil at the next World Cup 2010.
Ronaldinho goes into the Brazilian changing room to find all his team mates looking a bit glum.
"What's up?" he asks.
"Well, we're having trouble getting motivated for this game. We know it's important but it's only Scotland. They're s***e and we can't be bothered".
Ronaldinho looks at them and says "Well, I reckon I can beat these by myself, you lads go down the pub."
So Ronaldinho goes out to play Scotland by himself and the rest of the Brazilian team go off for a few jars.
After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the teletext on. A big cheer goes up as the screen reads "Brazil 1 - Scotland 0 (Ronaldinho 10 minutes)". He is beating Scotland all by himself!
Anyway, a few more pints later and the game is forgotten until someone remembers "It must be full time now, let's see how he got on".
They put the teletext on....
"Result from the Stadium "Brazil 1 (Ronaldinho 10 minutes) - Scotland 1 (Angus 89 minutes)".
They can't believe it, he has single handedly got a draw against Scotland !!
They rush back to the Stadium to congratulate Ronaldinho. They find him in the dressing room, still in his gear, sat with his head in his hands.
He refuses to look at them. "I've let you down, I've let you down."
"Don't be daft, you got a draw against Scotland, all by yourself. And they only scored at the very, very end!"
"No, No, I have, I've let you down... I got sent off after 12 minutes"
XX D XX
Posted by: Dan Mellow | June 21, 2006 at 19:11