关於 Arsenal 我所喜欢的事物 Some things I like about Arsenal by [email protected] (Arseblogger) Source from: http://arseblog.com/2011/10/some-things-i-like-about-arsenal/ 网志附图浏览版 http://goo.gl/aTy3V ※大部分的翻译文章都以这边为优先张贴，像是从2010年起的。 The Green 绿意盎然的草地 The green of the grass. Every time. It’s greener at Arsenal than anywhere else. The only time I can remember it being as green somewhere else is the first time I saw Arsenal play live. It was some time in the mid-80s, in a pre-season game against Shamrock Rovers here in Dublin. 我喜欢那草地的翠绿，而且是每一次。在 Arsenal 球场的草地总是比其他地方还来得绿 意盎然。我唯一记得最清楚的是，第一次去现场看 Arsenal 比赛时显得绿意的场地。那 是在80年代中期的事了，而且是季前赛事於 Dublin 对上 Shamrock Rovers 球队的时候 。 Under floodlights, a packed terrace in a south Dublin suburb, a battle of the O’Leary brothers if I recall correctly (of course it’s possible I’ve just augmented my memory of it). David the Gooner, Pierse playing for Rovers. The pitch was amazing that night. 在照明灯之下，Dublin 南侧的草坪上挤满了观赛的球迷，我没记错的话，那是 O'Leary 兄弟之争的赛事。(当然也有可能我记性变好了)。哥哥 David O'Leary 是当时的枪手球 员，弟弟 Pierse O'Leary 则为 Rovers 的球员。那一次的比赛是如此的引人注目。 We lost. 不过我们输了。 The Red (and white) 红色(和白色相间) I love our kit. Red shirt, white sleeves. It’s timeless, classic and simple. Which is why it’s annoying when Nike get it so wrong sometimes. I like that Chapman added the white sleeves not for aesthetic reasons but to make it easier for our players to pick each other out, 我超爱我们的球衣。红色上衣，白色袖套。如此的永恒、经典又简单。有时 Nike 胡乱设 计球衣会惹人嫌恶。我喜欢 Chapman 於设计时加上了白色袖套，不是基於审美观，而是 要让枪手们能清楚地辨识球场上夥伴的位置。 ※Herbert Chapman (1878-1934)於1925-1934年间担任枪手的总教练。 My favourite kit is the one we wore in the 1979 FA Cup final though. Maybe it ’s because it’s the first game I remember properly but maybe it’s just because it’s awesome. It’s timeless, classic and simple. Which is why it’s annoying when Nike foist yet another blue monstrosity upon us because of its leisure wear properties. 我最喜欢的球衣是我们在 1979 FA Cup(足总盃) 冠军赛所穿的球衣。也许那是我还回忆 的第一场比赛，也许是因为它太棒了。球衣看上去是如此永恒、经典又简单。这也是为什 麽当 Nike 偷偷加上丑陋的蓝色在休闲服装上时会令人如此地恼怒。 And if I could find a pair of the hooped socks from the mid-90s I’d buy them in a flash. 如果我还能找到 90年代中期的环纹长袜，我一定会立刻买下来的。 The Fans 枪迷们 As difficult as things are at the moment, and as depressing as I find it that people speak to each other online in the ill-mannered, pig-ignorant way they seem to think is acceptable, in real life the Arsenal fans I have met, and meet, are brilliant. 处在艰辛日子的此刻，更令人沮丧的是当我看到有人在网路上用踰矩、粗俗的话谩骂，而 且还认为这是应该的。在真实生活中，我所见过的枪迷们都是**很nice的**。 Generous, funny, passionate and intelligent. The first time I ever did that weird thing of ‘meeting people off the internet’ was for the Arsenal v Barcelona Champions League game at Wembley. As part of the Arsenal Mailing List a meet-up had been arranged and off I went to a bar within sight of the stadium. Nobody touched my special area. I drank beer with people I hadn’t met before and despite the result it was fantastic. I’m still in touch with some of those people. 大方、有趣、富有热情及聪颖。我第一次做了罕见的事─『会见网路之外真实的枪迷们』 ，那是於 Wembley 球场 Arsenal 对上 Barcelona 的欧冠决赛之後。作为 Arsenal Mailing List 上的成员，都会被安排在一个见面的小活动里，结束後朝着球场旁的吧台 前去。没有人来骚扰我的沮丧心情。和不认识的人一起喝啤酒，除了比赛结果以外，都是 很棒的经验。至今我仍和那些人有联系。 Through Arseblog I have met hundreds more, many of whom I would consider my friends, and those friendships are borne out of one thing and one thing only, Arsenal Football Club. 藉由 Arseblog 我见过数百位枪迷，其中不乏许多值得结交的朋友，而这些友谊都出自於 唯一的事物：Arsenal F.C.。 The Irish connection 爱尔兰的出生背景 Clearly this is what made me an Arsenal fan. I don’t remember clearly why I became an Arsenal fan but as a child of Irish parents living in England I’m sure I was searching for some kind of identity. Much as you might laugh now, Terry Wogan wasn’t it. Remember, this was a world in which I was a Paddy when I lived in England (in spite of my Yorkshire accent) but I was a Brit the moment we returned home. 很显然这才是使我成为枪迷的缘故。至於成为枪迷的过程就不太记得，但身为双亲都是爱 尔兰人，在孩童之际於英格兰长大的我，一直都在寻求同侪认同感。也许说来会令你发笑 ，但我不是以 Terry Wogan 作为志向来寻求认同。记得当时在英格兰生活的日子，大家 嘲笑我带着爱尔兰的口音，尽管那是我在约克郡的口音，而回到爱尔兰时又被讥笑带着英 国的口音。 注：推测是指 Terry Wogan 这名同时有爱尔兰籍和英格兰籍、声名远播的BBC播报员。 Brady, O’Leary, Stapleton, Devine, Rice, Nelson, Jennings. All just Irish to a small boy. There are a generation of Arsenal fans here whose first real trauma in life was the departure of Liam Brady to Juventus. A player that many of us never saw play except on TV moving to a club in Italy, played out in tiny snippets in the newspaper, and it was enough to cause heartbreak. Brady、O'Leary、Stapleton、Devine、Rice、Nelson、Jennings，对当时还是小孩的我 ，清一色的爱尔兰籍球员令我印象深刻。有不少枪迷第一次经历心灵创伤是在 Liam Brady 离去而加盟义甲 Juventus 的那次。球员转会到义大利的俱乐部时─除非在电视转 播否则我们都没办法看到过程─只出现在报纸的一小栏，就足以让我们伤心至极。 ※爱尔兰籍的枪手球员照片：http://www.worldeasy.com/arsenal/irish.htm I can only imagine how torturous it might have been to have blanket coverage, rolling news and non-stop rumour and gossip for the duration of the saga. Oh wait, I don’t need to imagine at all. 所以我可以想像现今一堆无止尽的转会传言和风声。呃，等等，我不需要去想像才是。( 已经经历过)。 The Records 纪录 I don’t remember the name of the book (was it the Rothman’s one?) but I had one at home as a kid and it listed each club and gave their various records. For example, record win, record loss, record attendance etc. 我不太记得书名了，似乎叫做 Rothman's One？但我小时候确实有一本，书中列出所有的 足球俱乐部以及各项记录。比方说，像是记录了胜场数、败场数，观众出席率、...等等 I used to know that book off by heart and back to front. I knew that our biggest win and biggest defeat had come against Loughborough Town and that our record attendance was somewhere in the mid 70,000s for a game in the 30s or 40s and that no other team could beat it. 过去我能阖上书本把里面的数据倒背如流。像是当时最多进球的胜场、被血洗的败场都是 在对上 Loughborough Town 时，还有着在30年代或40年代时 70,000人的出席人数无人能 击。 I played football stat Top Trumps against all the other teams in the book and Arsenal could win lots of times. And if we didn’t I’d just make them up so we did. 我还曾玩过足球数据的卡牌游戏，以数据来击败书中其他球队的纪录，而 Arsenal 几乎 是常胜军。就算没办法办法赢，还是有机会不致成为最後输家。 Our record appearance holder is an Irishman, David O’Leary who, as I say, blotted his copybook a bit as manager of Leeds. Particularly when he dared have a go at our dreamiest ever player. What was he thinking? 至今出场纪录保持人是爱尔兰籍的 David O'Leary，就如我说的，决定在 Leeds 担任主 教练时带给自己不太完美的纪录。特别是他誓言要离开那时梦幻般的枪手阵容。不晓得他 在想啥？ ※这记载令人困惑，担任教练是在他自由转会到 Leeds 後，後因伤势宣布退休後才开始的 Highbury 海布里球场 Football moves on and business more than ever calls the shots but there’s no place like home. I’ve always loved city centre stadia. One minute you’re walking down a residential street, you turn a corner and there’s a gigantic football stadium. 足球界的发展和商业蓬勃，已经远超过了俱乐部对球员的控制，但是足球职涯和商业没有 像家的感受。我一直深爱着市中心的建筑视野。当你走过住宅区的街道，转个弯，你就来 到了令人震撼、大型的足球体育场。 Highbury might not compare to the Grove in terms of facilities, ease of access (maybe we should make it more difficult for people to get out) and the rest, but it has all the character. It’s always worth a walk past, to see that amazing East stand facade, and a touch depressing to see the apartments and gardens where so much Arsenal history took place. 就设施来看，Highbury 不及 the Grove 的好，走道规划也不及(或许我们应该设计成迷 宫让人们难以走出球场 XD)、以及其他各方面，但它仍有着特殊的意义。那值得我们走一 趟，看看那美妙的东看台景观(球场外)，以及触景生情的各个部门和花园，想起 Arsenal 过去的点点滴滴。 ※Ashburton Grove 是 Emirate Stadium 的名称，The Grove 就是指 Emirates Stadium But who will ever forget it? 谁能忘了它呢？ The Cannon 大炮 I’ve never been one for tattoos but I always said if I got one it would be the old cannon. What a symbol of a club. It’s not a cock perching on a ball, nor any other kind of bird or wild animal of varying ferocity. I’ll see your wild animal and raise you a cannonball in the face. I think you’ll find there ’ll only be one winner. 我未曾刺青过，但若要给我一个刺青，我会选择以前的大炮图徽。一个俱乐部的象徵。既 不是一只公鸡栖息在球上(讽刺烙刺的队徽)，也不是经常做出暴力行为的野生动物或鸟类 。只要看到你那野生动物，我就送你吃个炮弹，让你知道只有一个赢家，那就是我们。 I get why they changed it, business, copyright, blah blah blah, but the new sanitised, we’ll sue you if you use it anywhere, version just doesn’t come close. 我能理解为什麽要改变它的图案，你会听到如基於商业考量、基於版权、基於.....，但 真正的目的是只要你模仿这图案，无论版本为何，都会起诉你。 The The 独一无二的 Not the band. The fact that we have a The in front of our name and nobody else does. There’s no The Chelsea. Certainly not a The Liverpool and definitely not a The Sp*rs. 我不是指《The The》乐团。仅此一家 Arsenal ，绝无二家。没有唯一的 Chelsea。当然 也不会有唯一的 Liverpool，更不会有唯一的 烙刺。 There is, however, The Arsenal. It’s ubiquitous and unique. It is ours. Sometimes you hear a pundit refer to us as ‘The Arsenal’ on the telly and even if that pundit is one who you would like to smear with meat paste then chuck into a pit with a pack of starving jackals it’s still nice to hear. 绝无仅有的 Arsenal，遍及全世界。它是我们的。有时你会看到权威人士在电视上用 'The Arsenal' 来称呼我们，甚至那人是看了就心烦的权威人士，能听到这字仍能感到 骄傲。 Maybe it’s a small thing, maybe completely insignificant, maybe you could say we don’t even a need a ‘the’ but the fact is we have a ‘the’ and nobody else does. 也许这是个小事，甚至不起眼，或者你会说多一个 'The' 会有什麽差别，但事实是我们 拥有着这唯一的 'The' 而别人没有。 We are The Arsenal. 我们就是唯一的 Arsenal。 The Players 球员们 I know, in this day and age where all our players are shit and useless and should be sold/killed/minced up and fed to cats etc, people’s affinity with players isn’t what it was. 我知道，在这个时候的球员，被批得一文不值，甚至应该被卖掉、剁掉、绞成饲料来喂猫 ....blahblah，球迷和球员的感情联系被毁得一去不返。 Yet under no other circumstances could I blindly worship another man the way I have with Arsenal players. The list goes back as long as I can remember. Liam Brady, of course. As a burgeoning centre-half I have to admit that Willie Young’s tackle on Paul Allen in the 1980 FA Cup final won him a place in my heart and taught me a football lesson I never forgot. 然而在没有其他的办法下只好盲目崇拜救世主来到，如同我以前对球员所做的那样。期待 球员加入的名单从以前到现在我都还记得。当然其中有 Liam Brady。我得承认，当时正受 瞩目的 Willie Young 於1980 FA Cup在 Paul Allen 的铲球那幕，赢得我对他的衷心支持 ，也给我上了永生难忘的一课。 视频：http://youtu.be/gKemltpQMgA I can remember fervently praying that when Charlie Nicholas left Celtic he’d choose us and not Man United or Liverpool or Sp*rs. I could barely understand why he’d want to go there anyway. They didn’t have a ‘the’ for goodness sake. 我还记得自己热诚地祈祷，祈求 Charlie Nicholas 离开 Celtic 後选择加盟我们而不是 去加盟 ManUtd、Liverpool、或烙刺。我大概可以理解为什麽他选择了我们。因为其他球 队都没有『The』独特的性质。 Rocastle, Bould, Merson (the glug-glug celebration did it for me, for some reason … ahem …), Bergkamp, Pires and Cesc were all obvious. But why, along the way, did I have soft spots just as big for Tommy Caton, Edu, Philippe Senderos and more? Players of varying quality who meant as much to me as the bone fide geniuses. I guess that’s the beauty of it. Rocastle、Bould、Merson(为我做出喝酒的庆祝动作，基於一些缘故，...嗯...)、 Bergkamp、Pires、和 Cesc 都是如此。那为什麽我也对 Tommy Caton、Edu、Philippe Senderos 以及其他球员情有独锺呢？这些不同性质的球员，对我而言就像是真正的天才 球员。我想那正是足球的美妙之处。 — I’m sure there are loads more if I stopped to think about it for longer, or if I had more time. But sometimes it’s worth stepping back and realising that Arsenal is something that you should cherish. It is, for all intents and purposes, a marriage, a lifelong relationship and committment. 我肯定还有很多可以说的，只是没有多花时间去想想。但有时候值得去回顾、想想 Arsenal 对於自己有什麽是该珍惜。就意义上来说，它就是个婚姻，一生的联系和承诺 For richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, and all that. We’re a bit sick at the moment and if you, like some columns I’ve read lately, want to leave your poorly partner because it’s all too much of a chore to lift him/her onto the toilet and then do the wiping, that’s entirely up to you. I ’m sure you’ll be back once we’re on the mend though; when the good times return, which they will. 处於鼎盛或羸弱的状态，病厌厌或蓄势待发，或着一切。此时我们有点病厌厌的，如果你 ，就像我最近在评论上看到的，想要离开表现低下的夥伴，因为那就像照顾生病的夥伴， 不但要带他(她)去厕所还得帮他擦拭。至於要不要这样做，决定都在你身上。我肯定你会 在我们回复的时候回来，也就是在好日子回来的时候，我相信那一刻的到来。 We can all be concerned and worried about where we are and where we’re going but we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again. This is nothing new in the life cycle of this football club. 我们都担心着现在的处境和将来的情景，但我们过去也曾经历并且走出困境。这在足球俱 乐部的周期来看，并非什麽新鲜事儿。 I offer no solution today though, and present this simply as something to counter-balance the bile, hatred and invective that has become far too large a part of supporting … wrong word … following the Arsenal at this moment in time. 我也拿目前的情形没辄，乾脆就直接宣泄心里的不满(balabala....消音XD)多过於支持吧 。阿！不对，应该是继续支持 Arsenal 才是。 Goal! Goal! Arsenal! --

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