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‘The World Cup is pain, princess’

The princess being Sports Illustrated helmetball writer Peter King, who on off-season dispatch to South Africa, is shocked — shocked! — that a bad referee’s call not only stands, but isn’t adequately explained to satisfy his American outrage. 

An African blogger now living in California takes delicious note of it all:

“What makes me really happy, however, is all you self-righteous American pig dogs crowing about how you had the game stolen from you. Welcome to the fucking World Cup! Does it taste bitter? Does it burn? Now hold that there, right there, on your tongue, for about a century. There! Welcome! The World Cup is pain, princess. Which is why I’m delighted to see people like Joe Posnanski or Peter King or just the first of the many insufferable sports buffoons we’re going to be hearing from in the next few days, the first of many American soccer idiots to demonstrate that we‘ve finally arrived. I mean that: no real soccer nation can be complete without jabbering idiots believing the world is against them because they lost and the refs are totally in the bag for the Slovenians, cause you know the Slovenes, right? Notorious for something, I’m sure, once we figure out who they are. Or this lovely inebriated fool, who stumbles over the name Slovenia and pronounces FIFA “fie-fa” as he proclaims about the anti-USA bias while walking through my neighborhood. It makes me happy to finally live in a country — and a neighborhood — where people can be insufferable asses about soccer. USA! USA! USA! The people who defaced Coulibaly’s wikipedia page, by the way, get a special zunguzungu seal of approval; well done, boys. Now if you can just get a good street riot started, you’ll really take the USA to the next level.”

At the very least, I’d book King for sending NFL Tweets from South Africa.

(via @TheBigLead)