De todos los artículos “ingleses” post Wembley nos quedamos con el de Sid Lowe en Sports Illustrated.
A couple of days after the Champions League final, while the repeats were still running, the game every bit as brilliant as it had been live, an old episode of Family Fortunes was being broadcast over on another channel. For those unfamiliar with the program, Family Fortunes was the British quiz show in which families wearing extremely garish shirts and gigantic shoulder pads compete for the chance to win £5,000 ($8000) and a car — and, more importantly, the opportunity to give the stupidest answer ever and thus be immortalized on a highlights reel and put up somewhere on the web.
A survey is carried out among 100 members of the British public, who provide the answers to questions which are then put to the contestants. So, they might ask: “name a sport you play with a ball,” to which the answers will probably be football, tennis, cricket, etc. The guests will have to guess what the answers are. The number of people who said each answer in the survey is the number of points you get for getting it right and every point is a pound. Simple. And that’s just the contestants such as the man who, rather than saying “swan,” responded to the question “name a bird with a long neck” by blurting out: “Naomi Campbell.” Continuar leyendo »