Masters of Space and Time
By: Jan | April 21st, 2008
When I was a kid, Dr. Emmett Brown taught me, that certain interventions into the past or future could create a time paradox and cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. That’s the worst case scenario.
Sunday’s match between Nuremberg and Wolfsburg was a test case for this assertion. But since I’m still sitting here and blogging this, it seems that we all got away with it. The paradoxes remain.
On Friday two weeks ago, it was raining cats and dogs in Nuremberg. It was too much for the pitch and the game became reminiscent of the infamous water battle between Germany and Poland during the World Cup 1974. Different to 34 years ago though, the referee decided to abandon the match at half-time. Nuremberg were leading 1-0, needed three points in their struggle to avoid relegation and were understandably upset.
The DFL decided to replay the match this Sunday; starting at 0-0 and with a full 90 minutes to go. Ivan Saenko’s goal got eradicated out of the history books, as was Diego Benaglio’s blunder that lead to the goal and the DFL lawyers took care of the video on Dailymotion. It’s like this match never took place. Except for the yellow cards that were handed out to Andreas Wolf and Christian Gentner. They remained intact. Even better, Grafite, who saw a red card in Wolfsburg’s match against Hamburg was punished with a five match ban, but can make the abandoned match count. So he will effectively only miss four matches. On Tuesday, Ashkan Dejagah saw his fifth yellow card in the match between Wolfsburg and Bochum on matchday 29 and thus missed the match against Nuremberg on matchday 28. Don’t try to make any sense of it. ESPN tried and they failed miserably.
But, as a creepy old lady on LOST taught me, the Universe has its way of course correcting. The match was supposed to end 1-0 and thus yesterday’s match ended 1-0 as well.
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I suppose there is a reason why I have to ‘run’ to the IMDB website and find out that I wasn’t even born yet when the film was released (IMDB says it’s 1985) once Dr. Emmett Brown was mentioned.
No wonder for a moment I was feeling all confused reading this entry of yours, Jan. Sorry.
But I remembered my father talking about this film before (only mentioning the title, that is). This has to be one of those reasons why I used to say I wished I was born a little bit earlier. 
The infamous water battle in the 1974 World Cup…ah, I was watching one of those World Cup-relating TV features ahead of the 2006 World Cup and it mentioned that. That was the first time I know of such thing happening in the World Cup.
‘ESPN tried and they failed miserably.’
Agreed. I don’t understand even the screenshot you have it here, Jan.And, I did tried to watch a few episodes of LOST (during its first season) and no pun intended, I was lost in the plot. Gave up watching after that. It’s the same thing when I tried to watch the entire first season of Desperate Housewives. Usually I don’t admit I used to watch the Desperate Housewives. This has to be the first time I say this.
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Well, I might have written a post there, which only I can understand in its entirety.
That screenshot is stitched together from parts of the ESPN page on the match. I just like how Alexander Laas got substituted twice and how Saenko and Koller scored in a match that ended 1-0. Perfectly summarises the whole story.
I watched the first season of DH as well, though I lost interest after the whole “why did she kill herself” story ark was finished. And why should I waste an hour during which I could watch the better half of a football match?
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LOL.
I actually first watched DH out of curiosity, with all the buzz it has been generating (given we always get these TV shows like months or something they are shown in the US) in the papers here at that time.In a way, now I feel like laughing I used to watch that. Ah, before the days where I mainly watch news bulletins, sports news and football matches…
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