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感恩节
Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago. In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World（新大陆）. This religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and they wanted to separate from it. The Pilgrims settled in what is now the state of Massachusetts. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the colony died from disease. The following spring the Iroquois Indians（美国纽约州东北部易洛魁族印第安人）taught them how to grow corn, a new food for the colonists. They showed them other crops to grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish.
In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley（大麦）, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited the local Indian chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys and other wild game offered by the colonists. The colonists had learned how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn and squash dishes from the Indians. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had even brought popcorn.
In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks.
After the United States became an independent country, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of a long and bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November, a different date every year. The President must proclaim that date as the official celebration.
Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.
In this spirit of sharing, civic groups and charitable organizations offer a traditional meal to those in need, particularly the homeless. On most tables throughout the United States, foods eaten at the first thanksgiving have become traditional.
Symbols of Thanksgiving
Turkey, corn, pumpkins and cranberry sauce（酸果曼沙司）are symbols which represent the first Thanksgiving. Now all of these symbols are drawn on holiday decorations and greeting cards. The use of corn meant the survival of the colonies. "Indian corn" as a table or door decoration represents the harvest and the fall season.
Sweet-sour cranberry sauce, or cranberry jelly, was on the first Thanksgiving table and is still served today. The cranberry is a small, sour berry. It grows in bogs（沼泽）, or muddy areas, in Massachusetts and other New England states. The Indians used the fruit to treat infections. They used the juice to dye their rugs and blankets. They taught the colonists how to cook the berries with sweetener（甜味佐料）and water to make a sauce. The Indians called it "ibimi" which means "bitter berry." When the colonists saw it, they named it "crane-berry" because the flowers of the berry bent the stalk over, and it resembled the long-necked bird called a crane. The berries are still grown in New England.
In 1988, a Thanksgiving ceremony of a different kind took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More than four thousand people gathered on Thanksgiving night. Among them were Native Americans representing tribes from all over the country and descendants of people whose ancestors had migrated to the New World.
The ceremony was a public acknowledgment of the Indians' role in the first Thanksgiving 350 years ago. Until recently most schoolchildren believed that the Pilgrims cooked the entire Thanksgiving feast, and offered it to the Indians. In fact, the feast was planned to thank the Indians for teaching them how to cook those foods. Without the Indians, the first settlers would not have survived
❷ 利用体育游戏丰富课余生活方法与策略研究 要论文3000字
利用体育游戏丰富课余生活方法与策略研究
执 笔 罗 艺
指导老师 孙 进
游戏是人类历史上早已形成的一种娱乐方式，是人类三种基本活动之一。体育游戏是指在游戏发展过程中派生出来的一个分支，它融体力发展，智力发展，身心娱乐为一体，既是游戏的组成部分，又与体育运动有着密切的关系。它有以下功能：1、健身功能2、娱乐功能3、促进个体社会化功能4、促进个体心理发展功能。
体育游戏曾经是很多青少年课余时间经常参加的活动，他们在一起蹦蹦跳跳，互相打闹、嬉戏。既锻炼了身体，又增加了交流，很多人在游戏中成了很好的朋友，这种感情可以保持到成年，成为终生的朋友。但是随着计划生育政策的推行，作为独生子女的青少年被“保护”了起来，他们没有机会聚在一起进行游戏，家庭电脑的普及，使电脑游戏迅速占据了他们的课余时间，电脑游戏有很多危害，被媒体形容为“电子海洛因”。很多青少年深陷其中，不能自拔。使他们身心都处于亚健康状态。通过我们的走访和调查，我们了解了我们学校同学课余时间参与体育游戏的现状，以及他们对体育游戏的认识。
我校同学参与体育游戏的现状：
通过调查发现，在我们同学的游戏概念中，体育游戏被排除在外，而提到游戏会想起电脑游戏的同学占总人数的96%，课余时间参与体育游戏的同学占被调查人数的4%，而接触电脑游戏的占到78%。有64%的同学认为体育游戏没有电脑游戏有吸引力，然而在“您认为体育游戏对人的身体和心理有没有益处？”的问题中，认为体育游戏对身体和心理均有好处的占100%。可见虽然体育游戏有很多好处但是却由于一些原因，对同学们缺少吸引力。在“你认为什么样的体育游戏更有吸引力”的问题中，认为“形式新颖的”有44人，占88%,认为“有竞争性质的（比赛类型的）”有40人，占80%，认为“对器材和场地要求不高”有16人，占32%，认为“简单易学”有12人，占24%，认为“娱乐性强”有42人，占84%。
我们的建议：
1、创编体育游戏应该具有一定的趣味性，例如增加游戏的竞争性，采用新颖的动作，适当的使用一些惊险的动作，提高动作难度等，在游戏中能使人愉快，使人感到有意思，能吸引学生主动参加到游戏中去。
2、加强同学们体育兴趣的培养，让同学们重视身体的锻炼。
3、让同学们认识到沉溺于电脑游戏的危害和体育游戏的益处。养成健身的习惯。
❸ 试述近代英国体育的特点
自古以来，人们把文化分为东方文化和西方文化；世界文化又大致可分为四大体系，即汉文化体系、阿拉伯和伊斯兰文化体系和欧洲文化体系。在这四大文化体系中除欧洲文化外，其他三大文化体系都在世界的东方。由于地域等多种因素，即使是上述三大体系的文化，各地区同样也呈现出不同的文化特征，但也存在相互交叉、认同的现象。
人类对文化的研究开始与19世纪中叶。许多研究资料表明，东方文化有着极其悠久的历史和深刻丰富的内涵。黑格尔在评论世界文化发展时指出，当黄河、长江流域已经孕育精美辉煌的古代文化时，泰晤士河、密西西比河、莱茵河上的居民还在黑暗的原始森林里徘徊，这表明了东方文化有着悠久的历史。然而，在几百年的历史演变中，东方文化发展缓慢，甚至停滞不前。所以，在很长一段时间内东方文化滞后于西方文化。
体育的历史与人类历史一样悠久，在人类文明的历史长河中，体育文化是一个逐渐发展的过程，是人类整个文化的重要组成内容。然而人类在与自然的斗争中，在很长一段时间里对体育文化的认识处在不知不觉之中。
历史资料表明，真正感受到体育文化对人类社会发展产生直接影响，还是在19世纪中叶的欧洲文艺复兴之后。特别是20世纪中叶以来，随着世界整体科学的发展，体育科技工作者得到不少新的启示。从此，许多学者更多的从体育哲学、人文社会学角度开展了广泛的研究，并逐步的由感性认识向理性方面发展。
早期的体育，尽管人们生活在不同的地域环境，有着不同的生活习惯，但创造的体育形态、性质和目的基本上是相同的。人类为了生存和延续，学会了跑、跳、投、攀爬等技能和生产劳动知识，并作为一种社会文化现象代代相传。随着时间的推移，逐渐形成了今天如此灿烂夺目的体育文化。
❹ 急求关于英国足球与英国文化的文献
有关英国文化
The culture of the United Kingdom is rich and varied, and has been influential on culture on a worldwide scale.
It is a European state, and has many cultural links with its former colonies, particularly those that use the English language (the Anglosphere). Considerable contributions to British culture have been made over the last half-century by immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent and the West Indies. The origins of the UK as a political union of formerly independent states has resulted in the preservation of distinctive cultures in each of the home nations.
Language
Main article: Languages in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has no official language. English is the main language and the de facto official language, spoken monolingually by an estimated 95% of the UK population.
However, some nations and regions of the UK have frameworks for the promotion of their autochthonous languages. In Wales, English and Welsh are both widely used by officialdom, and Irish and Ulster Scots enjoy limited use alongside English in Northern Ireland, mainly in publicly commissioned translations. Additionally, the Western Isles council area of Scotland has a policy to promote Scottish Gaelic.
Under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which is not legally enforceable, the UK Government has committed itself to the promotion of certain linguistic traditions. Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish are to be developed in Wales, Scotland and Cornwall respectively. Other native languages afforded such protection include Irish in Northern Ireland, Scots in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where it is known in official parlance as "Ulster Scots" or "Ullans" but in the speech of users simply as "Scotch", and British Sign Language.
The Arts
Literature
Sherlock Holmes, played here by Jeremy Brett, was created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.Main article: British literature
The earliest native literature of the territory of the modern United Kingdom was written in the Celtic languages of the isles. The Welsh literary tradition stretches from the 6th century. Irish poetry also represents a more or less unbroken tradition from the 6th century to the present day, with the Ulster Cycle being of particular relevance to Northern Ireland.
Anglo-Saxon literature includes Beowulf, a national epic, but literature in Latin predominated among ecated elites. After the Norman Conquest Anglo-Norman literature brought continental influences to the isles.
English literature emerged as a recognisable entity in the late 14th century, with the rise and spread of the London dialect of Middle English. Geoffrey Chaucer is the first great identifiable indivial in English literature: his Canterbury Tales remains a popular 14th-century work which readers still enjoy today.
Following the introction of the printing press into England by William Caxton in 1476, the Elizabethan era saw a great flourishing of literature, especially in the fields of poetry and drama. From this period, poet and playwright William Shakespeare stands out as arguably the most famous writer in the world.
The English novel became a popular form in the 18th century, with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1745).
After a period of decline, the poetry of Robert Burns revived interest in vernacular literature, the rhyming weavers of Ulster being especially influenced by literature in Scots from Scotland.
The following two centuries continued a huge outpouring of literary proction. In the early 19th century, the Romantic period showed a flowering of poetry comparable with the Renaissance two hundred years earlier, with such poets as William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Lord Byron. The Victorian period was the golden age of the realistic English novel, represented by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
World War One gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote (often paradoxically), of their expectations of war, and/or their experiences in the trench.
The Celtic Revival stimulated new appreciation of traditional Irish literature, however, with the independence of the Irish Free State, Irish literature came to be seen as more clearly separate from the strains of British literature. The Scottish Renaissance of the early 20th century brought modernism to Scottish literature as well as an interest in new forms in the literatures of Scottish Gaelic and Scots.
The English novel developed in the 20th century into much greater variety and was greatly enriched by immigrant writers. It remains today the dominant English literary form.
Other well-known novelists include Arthur Conan Doyle, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Mary Shelley, Zadie Smith, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf and J.K. Rowling.
Important poets include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, John Milton, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Pope, and Dylan Thomas.
Religion
Main article: Religion in the United Kingdom
Although today one of the most 'secularised' states in the world, the United Kingdom is traditionally a Christian country, with two of the Home nations having official faiths:
Anglicanism, in the form of the Church of England, is the Established Church in England. The Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
Presbyterianism (Church of Scotland) is the official faith in Scotland.
The Anglican Church in Wales was disestablished in 1920.
The Anglican Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1871.
Other religions followed in the UK include Islam, Hinism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism. While 2001 census information [2] suggests that over 75 percent of UK citizens consider themselves to belong to a religion, Gallup International reports that only 10 percent of UK citizens regularly attend religious services, compared to 15 percent of French citizens and 57 percent of American citizens. A 2004 YouGov poll found that 44 percent of UK citizens believe in God, while 35 percent do not [3]. The disparity between the census data and the YouGov data has been put down to a phenomenon described as "cultural Christianity", whereby many who do not believe in God still identify with the religion they were bought up as, or the religion of their parents.
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Food
Main article: British cuisine
Although there is ample evidence of a rich and varied approach to cuisine ring earlier historical periods (particularly so amongst wealthy citizens), ring much of the 19th and 20th century Britain had a reputation for somewhat conservative cuisine. The stereotype of the native cuisine was of a diet progressing little beyond stodgy meals consisting of "meat and two veg". Even today, in more conservative areas of the country, "meat and two veg" cuisine is still the favoured choice at the dinner table.
Traditional British fare usually includes dishes such as fish and chips, roast dishes of beef, lamb, chicken and pork, as well as regional dishes such as the Cornish pasty and Lancashire Hotpot.
On 8 January 1940, four months after the outbreak of World War II, a system of food Rationing was introced to conserve stocks and feed the nation ring the critical war years. Rationing persisted until July 4, 1954 [4] when a fourteen year period of relative privation (which profoundly affected a generation of people attitude to 'a culture of food') finally came to an end. With the end of rationing, Britain's diet began to change, slowly at first ring the 1950s and 1960s, but immeasurably by the closing decades of the 20th century.
During the transitional period of the 1970s, a number of influential figures such as Delia Smith (perhaps Britain's most famous homegrown exponent of good food), began the drive to encourage greater experimentation with the new ingredients (e.g. pasta) increasingly being offered by the supermarkets. The evolution of the British diet was further accelerated with the increasing tendency of the British to travel to continental Europe (and sometimes beyond) for their annual holidays, experiencing new and unfamiliar dishes as they travelled to countries such as France, Italy, and Spain.
Towards the mid to late 1990s and onwards an explosion of talented new 'TV chefs' began to come to prominence, (with figures as diverse as Jamie Oliver, Ainsley Harriott, Ken Hom, Nigella Lawson, Madhur Jaffrey, Nigel Slater, and Keith Floyd) this brought about a noticeable acceleration in the diversity of cuisine the general public were prepared to try and their general confidence in preparing food that had would once have been considered pure staples of foreign cultures, particularly the Mediterranean European, South and East Asian diets. As a result, a new style of cooking called Modern British emerged.
This process of increased variety and experimentation in food inevitably dovetailed with the very profound impact that the post-war influx of immigrants to the UK (many from Britain's former colonies in the Caribbean and Indian sub-continent) had on the national cuisine. The new communities propelled new and exciting dishes and ingredients onto restaurant tables and into the national consciousness. In many instances, British tastes fused with the new dishes to proce entirely new dishes such as the Balti, an English invention based on Indian cuisine that has since gained popularity across the world. Many of these new dishes have since become deeply embedded in the native culture, culminating in a speech in 2001 by Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, in which he described Chicken Tikka Masala as 'a true British national dish' [5].
With the rich diversity of its peoples and its (arguably) relatively successful attempts at creating a true multicultural society, married to a reputation as an experimental and forward thinking nation, the future of British cuisine looks positive.
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Ecation
University College, Oxford was founded in the 13th centuryMain article: Ecation in the United Kingdom
The ecation system in the United Kingdom varies in important respects between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Ecation is devolved to the Scottish Parliament and the assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland.
Ecation is compulsory for all children between the ages of five and sixteen. Most children in the UK are ecated in state funded schools financed through the tax system and so parents do not pay directly for the cost of ecation.
Less than ten percent of the UK school age population attend independent fee-paying schools. Many prominent independent schools, often founded hundreds of years ago, are known as public schools of which Eton, Harrow and Rugby are three of the better known.
Most primary and secondary schools in both the private and state sectors have compulsory school uniforms. This is a contentious point with generations of school children who would like to see them abolished, only to support their retention once they become parents, this is e to people wanting to have a 'uniform' appearance in schools and it reces the brand logo culture from coming out in ecational establishments. Due to the multicultural nature of England, some allowances have had to be made in the uniform regulations to accommodate the needs of some children's religious beliefs.
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England
Main article Ecation in England
Most schools came under state control in the Victorian era, a formal state school system was instituted after the Second World War. Initially schools were separated into infant schools (normally up to age 4 or 5), primary schools and secondary schools (split into more academic grammar schools and more vocational secondary modern schools). Under the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s most secondary modern and grammar schools were combined to become comprehensive schools.
Although the Minister of Ecation is responsible to Parliament for ecation, the day to day administration and funding of state schools is the responsibility of Local Ecation Authorities.
Northern Ireland
Main article Ecation in Northern Ireland
Scotland
Main article Ecation in Scotland
Wales
Main article Ecation in Wales
Higher ecation
The United Kingdom includes many historic universities. These include the so-called Oxbridge universities (Oxford University and Cambridge University) which are amongst the world's oldest universities and are generally ranked at or near the top of all British universities. Other universities include the University of St Andrews, the oldest university in Scotland. Academic degrees are usually split into classes: first class (I), upper second class (II:1), lower second class (II:2) and third (III), and unclassified (below third class).
[Sport
Main article: Sport in the United Kingdom
The national sport of the UK is football, and the UK has the oldest football clubs in the world. The home nations all have separate national teams and domestic competitions, most notably the Scottish Premier League, the FA Cup and the FA Premier League. The first ever international football match was between Scotland and England in 1872. The match ended goalless.
Other famous British sporting events include the Wimbledon tennis championships, the Grand National, the London Marathon, the ashes series of cricket matches and the boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
A great number of major sports originated in the United Kingdom, including: Football (soccer), squash, golf, boxing, rugby (rugby union and rugby league), cricket, snooker, billiards, badminton and curling.
National costume
The kilt is a traditional Scottish garmentThere is no specifically British national costume. Even indivially, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have only vestiges of a national costume; Scotland has the kilt and Tam o'shanter. In England certain military uniforms such as the Beefeater or the Queen's Guard are considered by tourists to be symbolic of Englishness, however they are not official national costumes. Morris dancers or the costumes for the traditional English may dance are cited by some as examples of traditional English costume.
Naming convention
The naming convention in most of the United Kingdom is for everyone to have a given name, usually (but not always) indicating the child's sex, followed by a parent's family name. This naming convention has remained much the same since the 15th century in England although patronymic naming remained in some of the further reaches of the other home nations until much later. Since the 19th century middle names have become very common and are often taken from the family name of an ancestor.
Traditionally given names were largely taken from the Bible however in the Gothic Revival of the Victorian era Anglo Saxon and mythical names became commonplace. Since the middle of the 20th century however given names have been influenced by a much wider cultural base.
英国式足球（Wall game）的英文介绍
Wall game
Wally (pronounced Wall - ey ) is a groupe of games played predominantly in secondary schools in England. The games are generally played ring breaks and require a wall and tennis ball or football. Numbers involved in games range from four to 30-ish; however, numbers become unmanageable beyond 15.
How to play
Using a tennis ball The game is played against a stretch of wall with a smooth flat surface underneath. The wall should preferably be above two meters (although skilled players never use more than meter). The ball is 'served' by throwing the ball hard at the ground and making it bounce on to the wall; this is normally done from two to three meters away from the wall. Players then have to hit the ball in the cupped palm of their hand towards the wall ensuring that it bounces on the ground before it hits the wall. A player is out if they fail to hit the ball, fail to make the ball bounce before hitting the wall, or miss the wall. The winner is the last person left in.
A tennis raquet can be used instead of hands
Using a football The rules are the same although the ball is kicked rather than hit with the hand
Detailed Rules
The length of wall is changeable depending on the number of players but generally stays under eight meters.
Players can call for a re-serve if they feel there was a bad serve; this can only be done before the ball is hit.
The person who is nearest to the ball is the one that has to hit it. Failure to do so results in them being out. Players can step out of the way of the ball if there is someone behind them, thus making the person behind them responsible for hitting the ball. If two players begin to claim the other person was nearer to the ball then both players are out.
The ball is sometimes aimed at other players because they are out if the ball hits them.
If the ball hits the joining of the wall and floor (a '50/50') players can call for the round to start again.
Playing Style
The game is played differently to the way the rules would suggest. The playing style is fast and furious and when well-played the ball is hit very hard and low to the ground three or four meters away from the wall. Playing occasionally changes to the ball being hit very softy close to the wall requiring players to be very close to the wall; this is generally used tactically as players can then hit the ball hard so that it shoots off almost parallel to the wall catching out people who had not been playing close to the wall. This tactic generally only last a round or part of one as it is considered unsporting.
Variations
There are a few variations of the game although they are played with less frequency than the main game. 'Stings' is played exactly the same as the normal game except at the end of a game the first person has to stand against the wall while the winner gets one shoot against them with the ball. '3D' wally is generally played in corridors or classrooms, in this variant of the game 2 or 3 walls are used as well as the roof.
❺ 英国体育文化介绍，300字左右
体育运动在英国非常普及。英国在奥运会的众多项目上都有优势。其中最强的有田径、羽毛球、射击、拳击、柔道、赛艇、帆船、皮划艇、自行车、马术、现代五项等等。
在田径上，英国在男女短跑项目历来就是强项，无论是男子100米还是女子中长跑项目，实力都相当不错。英国代表团在雅典取得的9枚金牌中，就有三枚来自田径。在雅典奥运会上，霍尔姆斯一人就独得女子800米和1500米两枚金牌。像坎贝尔、钱伯斯在男子100米短跑上具有夺取奖牌的实力。女子短跑运动员梅里、霍尔姆斯，男子三级跳远选手爱德华兹、男子标枪选手巴克利，女子七项全能选手丹-刘易斯，近年来在国际赛场上均有不错的发挥。
帆船项目也是英国的强项。英国有开展帆船、赛艇比赛的传统。在雅典奥运会上就获得了2金1银2铜的佳绩。其中艾恩斯利获得帆船帆板男子芬兰人级冠军，而女子选手罗伯特森与韦伯、艾尔顿一起，则将女子索林级的金牌揽入怀中。
此外在射击项目上，皮尔、法尔在男子飞碟比赛中成绩突出。拳击队的哈里森，柔道队的豪伊，皮划艇的拉特克里夫、布拉班茨，自行车赛的海雷斯、维金斯，女子现代五项的柯克、阿伦比等，实力都很强。
英国参加了有史以来的所有夏季奥运会，迄今为止共获得190枚金牌，242枚银牌，241枚铜牌。其中成绩最好的一届是1908年伦敦奥运会，当时英国代表队夺得了56金50银39铜，总成绩名列第1位。20世纪30年代以前，英国队在奖牌榜中一直列在前10位。后来成绩有所下滑，但几乎保持在前15名以内。
❻ 谁有关于英国体育运动和假期生活的文章（要英文的）急！！！！
你好 请看如下
From The Times
May 7, 2009
Can Lionel Messi prove match for United?
Argentinian's artistic skills will be put to the ultimate test against experience of the holders in Champions League showdown
Patrick Barclay, Chief Football Commentator 这些是题目 作者之类的，你会看吧。
以下是内容
Chelsea may have felt cheated, but Europe has a final fit for the football-lover. Forget all the drivel about referees favouring Barcelona on the grounds that they are not from England; Tom Henning Ovrebo was an inadequate referee (as I noted after seeing him when Arsenal played away to Villarreal), not a bent one.
Michel Platini was never worried that the final would be all-English and anyone who said otherwise was hazarding a bad guess. What Uefa’s president should be worried about is the standard of refereeing represented by the Norwegian.
Just as Barcelona reckoned that they were hard done by at Wolfgang Stark’s hands in the first leg at the Nou Camp, Chelsea had genuine cause for complaint against Ovrebo. They will moan as the Catalans did after Chelsea knocked their team out at Stamford Bridge four years ago, when Pierluigi Collina failed to spot the foul on Víctor Valdés that preceded John Terry’s winner.
We, who just want to see the best possible game of football, need not detain ourselves with partisan issues. Whatever Didier Drogba may think, we would rather see Lionel Messi than him in Rome, all things being equal (and away goals counting double), and the prospect of Cristiano Ronaldo’s presence serves only to whet the appetite.
Whatever philistines may say, it does matter that such a clash of philosophies as the semi-final draw dictated found resolution in Barcelona’s favour. It matters that pure skill should overcome the sweat, discipline and organisation, however admirable, that came within a few minutes of rendering Messi marginal.
Ronaldo, with two goals and an assist for Manchester United against Arsenal the previous night, had put on a hard act for even the little Argentinian to follow and for almost 93 minutes the task proved beyond him. For all the joy Messi brings to the Spanish league, he did not look strong enough to face a Barclays Premier League heavyweight.
And then he stroked a simple pass to Andrés Iniesta. The right weight on the ball matters in such situations and, as it flew past Petr Cech, every Barcelona player knew that the technique in which they take such pride had prevailed yet again, banishing Chelsea, who had endeavoured to smother them and so nearly succeeded.
Whether Messi and company can withstand the force of Ronaldo and United in Rome remains to be seen. On last night’s evidence, Messi will have his work cut out to loosen the crown of the World Player of the Year. Pep Guardiola and his team so nearly ran out of inspiration last night. Messi looked a boy again amid the blue muscularity that underlined Guus Hiddink’s pre-match references to football as a man’s game.
Michael Essien’s majestic volley signalled Chelsea’s desire for a second chance to snatch the greatest prize from United. The crowd were lifted and Barcelona became anxious, hurried, as Hiddink must have hoped they would. Even Messi could not buy time on the ball. Zealously policed by Ashley Cole as Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda blocked Xavi Hernández’s lines of communication to him, he appeared almost forlorn. A different approach was tried. He went outside Cole, but the obligation to deliver a dangerous cross with his right foot proved beyond Messi, who miscued into Cech’s hands.
At times there was so much for Chelsea to deal with in the air that they might have thought they were playing Stoke City. Again, this was a pleasing picture for Hiddink. What Guardiola wanted was to see Messi running through Chelsea, dribbling, teasing, tempting defenders. Yet Chelsea were wonderfully obrate. Anything less like carving holes in Real Madrid at the Bernabéu, as Barcelona had done in their 6-2 win there on Saturday, would have been hard to imagine.
Until Messi and Iniesta found a way.
其实，你可以自己上网去看啊，只是我不知道 中国能不能上英国和美国的网站。
美国纽约时报 www.nytimes.com
英国泰吾士报 www.times.com
美国报纸。 www.ustoday.com
美国报纸 www.us.com
不好意思了 因为我在美国，关注美国的比英国的要多。
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