Saturday 2 July 2016

Beat that on Belgium if you can

The traditional response to the defeat of a 'big team' by a 'little team' is to reprise the famous Norwegian commentary; Maggie Thatcher, Winston Churchill etc, your boys took one hell of a beating.
I was struck that this reaction was unusually absent from social media after the giant killing of Belgium by Wales. Wondering why it occurred to me that actually the old joke about the difficulty of naming 5 Belgians was true. The Norwegian commentary could not be done because noone could fill a tweet of 140 characters with a list of Belgians that people would have heard of.
Unable to resist a challenge, I decided overnight to give it it a go. After 8 hours extensive research here is my commentary-

"Georges Prosper Remi*, Tintin, Snowy**, Plastic Bertrand (sadly French), Stella Artois (counts as two), Jean Claude Juncker (nope, from Luxembourg), Jeanne-Claude Van Damme, the Belgian Prime Minister (err, they still do not have one), Marouane Fellaini (disallowed as was playing and therefore could not be one of 'your boys'), Hercule Poirot.  Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating."

Obviously 3 were fictional characters, and 2 were actually a beer but not a bad effort. See if you can do better.

*Herge
**Tintin's dog

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