the mighty unruly manners of the mainland chinese at its finest, occured during the Asian Cup opening ceremony:
... Fans had whistled and jeered as guests, including Fifa president Sepp Blatter and AFC president Mohamed Hammam, addressed the crowd, leading to an outraged Velappan.
Newspapers yesterday said that fans were actually booing the unpopular Chinese Football Association's deputy secretary-general Zheng Zhengmin, whose image appeared on the stadium's big screen television as the officials were speaking.
However, a spokesman for the organising committee said the booing was due to a technical glitch during a video presentation...
they just couldn't decide which excuse to bleat, could they? and lame ones at that.
or maybe it was all lost in translation. both ways.
regardless, Mr Velappan shouldn't have vented his spleen on how the whole lot of 'em ought to "...be ashamed of what they saw in the opening ceremony...". 'cos there ain't any exact chinese translation of the word "ashamed".
re-phrasing it to, see emphasis:
"you's china people make me lose face. and now everyone around the blue marble is laughing at us, asians!!!"
works wonders. really.
as enscribed by the letter b @ July 19, 2004 10:35 AM