Alhaji Righteous De Ambitious: Jun 7, 2012

Thursday, June 7, 2012

World Cup 2010 Blog: “The Official Euro 2012 Music Video” plus 1 more

The Official Euro 2012 Music Video

Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:55 PM PDT

This is the official video of the official song for UEFA Euro 2012, which you’d know without being told as it’s quite clear that the images of Poland and the Ukraine are displayed by a hut on a beach. Because that’s the first thing which always comes to mind when those countries are entered into the discussion. (They do get to the more identifiable parts of the two countries eventually.)

She’s rather popular, so there’s little controversy to be had here until K’Naan drops in to crash the party.

Those Toxic European Threads

Posted: 06 Jun 2012 03:49 PM PDT

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There are due to be hundreds of dodgy replica shirts floating around the consumer industry; those made of various narcotics will filter their way through the seedy underbelly of the football world, as well as an footballers knowing they won’t be nabbing a urine test. Some may spontaneously combust in the stands. Others may become just a little bit too porous as the game wears on.

The makeup of these replica shirts is suspect, to say the least. Which means one will have to wear a Hazmat suit underneath.

Football fans buying replica shirts of their favourite Euro 2012 team could be risking their health, Europe’s consumer watchdog has warned.

The shirts of tournament co-host Poland are so bad they should be banned, said BEUC, the umbrella group representing the EU’s national consumer organisations.

Research into the chemicals used in official team strips in Poland, Spain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, France, Holland and Portugal, showed all nine national shirts contained “worrying” levels of chemicals.

Lead, a heavy metal, was found in the team strip of six of the countries – Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, France and Italy. In kits from Spain and Germany, lead exceeded the legal level for children’s products and Portuguese and Dutch shirts also contained nickel.

Weren’t these things supposed to be made out of green materials and recycled hippies?