From Danwei:
During last night’s live broadcast of the Italy – Australia football World Cup game, CCTV’s announcer Huang Jianxiang (ȪÑÂÅ•Áøî) got rather excited, and took sides with the Italians, saying things like “Don’t give the Australians any chances!” and after Italy won, “Long live Italy!”
Today Chinese blogs are castigating Huang, accusing him of gravely insulting Australia and being a disgrace to Chinese football fans. Beijing blogger Fly Show (ÂøÉÈ£ûÊâ¨) has a post about it titled Huang ‘Long Live Italy’ Jianxiang, you can go home nowÔºàChineseÔºâ. The post ends thusly: “Sorry Australia, please forgive our crazy man!” The post has a photoshop banner, which reads:
Excited … Agitated … Out of Control
What kind of commentators do we need? [Full Text (video inside)]
-See also China: Crazy Football Commentator by Global Voices Online.
-See also The Passion Of The Commentator by Letters from China
