BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Monday, June 30, 2008

They reign in Spain


Ditch that choker and underachiever tag. Spain, much maligned Spain are the Euro 2008 champions and they did it against one of the greatest footballing nations in Germany. Who gave them a chance? Not many thought that they'd even get out of the quarterfinals, but they did. Thanks to inspired play by David Villa to get them going then Iker Casillas all the way to Cesc Fabregas and ultimately Fernando Torres.

And equally deserving of praise is the crusty Luis Aragones. I still may not like him as a human being because I think he is a racist, but he got the job done.

Viva EspaƱa!

And here is my best XI from Euro 2008:

Goal Keeper: Iker Casillas (Spain)
Back Four: Philipp Lahm (Germany), Pepe (Portugal), Carles Puyol (Spain), Josip Simunic (Croatia)
Midfield: Michael Ballack (Germany), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Xavi (Spain), Hamit Altintop (Turkey)
Forwards: David Villa (Spain) and Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia)

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