Well the Wolrd Cup predictive streak continues, with congratulations to Sami Al Jaber who scores a cool goal after just 90 seconds on the pitch for KSA.
I had picked up on Sami and his team mate Manaf Abushgeer, after spotting the football sticker from a lampost outside the Design Museum, when out with the Headshift team for lunch last week. Sticking it squarely on my Oyster Card seemed a nice re-location. (Though I didn’t stretch to seeing Tunisia’s equaliser).
Found a great blog ‘Samba Boys’ on the Brazilian side – well worth a look:
This is Ronaldinho Dentucho.He is a parody of Ronaldinho who appears in Brazil’s most-viewed comedy programme Casseta & Planeta.Dentucho means “toothy”, and is a play on “gaucho” – which is how Ron is still known in Brazil.There’s another gag in the name Pau Grande. It is where Garrincha was born and also means “Huge Cock”. “Im in Switzerland doing merchandising for my piece…” says Dentucho.The actor is Helio de la Pe