An historic victory

Chumbawamba: “I get knocked down! But I get up again! You’re never gonna keep me down!”

Daniel: “Dowww! Dowww! Dowww!”

Karin: “That’s Danny’s song, all right.”

Chumbawamba: “Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy.”

His chin has a scrape that we can’t account for. He has a bloody goose egg on his head from having backflipped off the couch. But mostly he gets knocked down by his brother.

It’s been a terrible week for him, what with those injuries … and teething … and getting weaned. Getting weaned is worse than getting knocked down.

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Barcelona just beat Liga de Quito in Liga’s stadium … for the first time ever. (I am not counting penalty-kick shootout victories.) Only one goal was scored. It was an olímpico, or maybe an own goal.

The referee added twenty-two minutes because Liga’s fans caused a disturbance.

The stadium was inaugurated in 1997.

That’s a 26-year winless streak. (Twenty-five, if you discount the season that Liga spent in the Serie B.)

How long is that? Chumbawamba released “Tubthumping” in 1997.