http://bbs.qieerxi.com/viewthread.php?tid=65625&extra=page%3D1 GILES SMITH'S MIDWEEK VIEW 史密斯周中观点 Published: 25 April 2007 新闻来源：http://www.chelseafc.com/page/NewsHomePage/0,,10268~1016105,00.html 新闻翻译：katekui 版权所有：切尔西中文网 Our columnist this week has found cause to ask one of the fundamental questions of life. Do footballers know anything about football? 本周我们的专栏作家有理由要问一个生活中的根本问题。足球运动员到底懂足球吗? Have you seen the PFA Premiership team of the year? It was announced at the PFA Awards ceremony, which took place on Sunday night in a hotel in what my sworn allegiance to the Journalists' Oath obliges me to describe as 'London's glittering West End'. 你看到本年度PFA英超最佳阵容了吗？是上周六晚在一个酒店举行的PFA颁奖典礼上宣布的 ，由於我的忠於记者职业的誓言，所以只好迫使自己把这里称为“璀璨的伦敦西区”。 The PFA awards are voted for by the players, which is why people tend to grant them a bit more credence than, say, the Laureus Sports Awards or the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award or any of the other tiresome and by definition redundant end-of-term prizes on offer to athletes. (Redundant, because sports tend to have their own honours system built in. We call them 'trophies'.) 因为PFA奖项是由球员投票产生的，所以同劳伦斯体育奖、bbc体育年度最佳个人奖或者其 他的一些无聊的、确切的说多余的奖比起来，人们总是给予该奖项更高的信任度。（多余 ，是因为体育本身有自己内在的荣誉。我们称其为 “奖杯”） This year, though, you look at what the pooled wisdom of the professional game has come up with and, unavoidably, you end up asking yourself, 'Don't these people know anything about football?' 然而，今年，当你看到这些职业人士提交的结果时，你会忍不住问道“这些人一点都不懂 足球吗？” It's just, unless there has been some kind of misprint in my newspaper, the team of the year appears to contain eight Manchester United players. Yes, eight, including their entire defence. You know the one: the one with Gary Neville in it. The one that's shipped more goals (24) in the Premiership this season than both Chelsea (20), and Liverpool (22). The one with Edwin van der Sar in goal. 应该是这样的，除非我的报纸打印错了，本年最佳阵容包括了8名曼联球员。是的，8个， 包括了他们整条后防线。你知道的，就是这条后防线：里面有加里内维尔；本赛季在联赛 中失球数（24）多於切尔西（20）和利物浦（22）；把手大门的是范德萨。 Now, before we cut to the nub here, can we just take a moment to recap the season that Petr Cech has had? Kicked in the head at Reading, removed from the field under an oxygen mask, required to undergo surgery on his skull, shaved and scarred, with serious doubts raised about the likelihood that he would ever play again, Cech nevertheless defeated medical expectation to return to the side within months and play, uncannily, as if rejuvenated by the experience. It's been quite a season for him, you'd have to say, what with one thing and another. 在我们谈及重点之前，可不可以先占用一点时间，回顾一下本赛季切赫的经历？同雷丁的 比赛中被踢中头部，带着氧气罩从球场被移走，要在他的头骨上进行手术，开了刀并留下 了疤痕，让人十分怀疑他能否再进行比赛了，然而并没有像医学估计的那样，切赫在几个 月内就重返赛场了，似乎这次的经历反而让他更有活力了。你不得不承认，由於本赛季接 二连三发生在他身上的事情，使得这个赛季对他来说很不一般。 He's not in the team of the year, though. He missed a bunch of games, you see. So, as far as the PFA are concerned he didn't really have a season. Because, you know, coming back from a brain-threatening injury and putting together a string of consecutive Premiership clean sheets while playing to a standard that, in most people's eyes, reconfirms him as the world's number one, never mind the Premier League's, doesn't really constitute a story. 但是，他却不在最佳阵容里。你知道，他错过了一些比赛，所以，在PFA看来，他连个完展 的赛季都没有。因为，从很危险的脑部伤病恢复过来，联赛中保持了一连串的不失球记录 ，而且在大多数人的眼里，他复出后的表现再次证实他是世界第一流的门将，更不用提在 英超里了，就是这样，也还是不能说明问题。 So what do you have to do to make goalkeeper in the PFA team of the year? Swim crocodile-infested waters? Escape a burning skyscraper in a hail of machine gun fire while hanging from a helicopter by one arm? 那要怎麽做才可以成为最佳阵容中的门将哪？在一个充满鳄鱼的水里游泳？拿一支手抓住 直昇飞机，逃离被机枪攻击中的起了火的大厦？。 No. You have to be Edwin van der Sar. Edwin van der Sar! That's the same Edwin van der Sar that Italy's Gazzetta Dello Sport thoughtfully described this week as having endured 'a see-saw season' and identified as the principal weak link that AC Milan could usefully exploit over the course of their Champions League semi-final. 不，这样也不行。你要是范德萨才行。范德萨！就是那个本周被意大利Gazzetta Dello体 育报描绘成经历了一个“表现反复”的赛季的范德萨，并被认为是ac米兰在冠军杯半决赛 中攻击对手时可以利用的一个主要弱点。 One could eventually, perhaps, come to understand the oversight by which there is no place in the PFA team of the year for Ricardo Carvalho (week after week, the best central defender in the country, but less famous, I guess, than Rio Ferdinand) nor for Michael Essien, who must have played in too many different positions and therefore confused people into voting for Steven Gerrard instead. (Gerrard was largely anonymous this year, but at least he was anonymous in roughly the same area of the pitch from week to week.) 最终也许可以理解PFA的一点疏忽，那就是卡瓦罗（一周接一周里，我们国内的最佳中后卫 ，但是我猜想，可能没有费迪南德出名）也不在最佳阵容之中，埃辛也不在，一定是因为 他踢的位置太多了，所以搞得一些人糊涂了，於是投票给了杰拉德。（今年杰拉德一直没 什麽表现，但至少，他是几乎一直在场上踢同一个位置而毫无表现。） One could also factor in, on the plus side, the presence in the side of Didier Drogba (leading scorer, so therefore a no-brainer). But for the absence of Cech? well, I hope professional footballers take a good look at themselves over this, and hang their heads in scandalised shame. 有人会提出，有好的一面，那就是的德罗巴在这个阵容中（最佳射手，所以这个不用脑也 会选吧）。但切赫的缺席？我希望职业球员们在这一问题上能够好好反省一下，能够为此 感到羞愧。 Cristiano Ronaldo, incidentally, beat Drogs to the Player of the Year award, for which the trophy appears to be a length of gold-plated drain pipe. Being young, the winky one also went home with the Young Player of the Year award, the first person to do the double in this area since Andy Gray shrugged of a truly horrendous hairstyle to take both the awards in 1977, back in the days when the ceremony was lit by oil lamps and the players pitched up on horse back. 顺便提一句，c罗击败了德罗巴获得了最佳球员奖，这个奖杯怎麽感觉像金的排水管一样。 因为是年轻球员，所以还捧回了最佳青年球员奖，是自安迪格雷后第一个在此领域获得双 项奖的球员，留着一头尤为恐怖的发型的安迪格雷，在1977年拿过这两项奖，当时的颁奖 典礼现场还是用煤油灯点亮的，球员是骑在马背上的。 Ronaldo's response was outstanding, and tended to confirm what one has always suspected about his priorities: 'Now it would be fantastic to win the Premier League, which would be a kind of icing on the cake.' c罗的发言很精彩，也证实我们的一个猜测，那就是到底什麽对他是最重要的：“现在如果 再能赢得联赛冠军那真是太美了呀，简直就是锦上添花。” Note: personal awards handed out in meaningless televised ceremony under gaudy hotel chandelier; the cake. Trophy for which his team has been busting its guts for an entire season; merely the icing. Lovely player, and all that; but it kind of sums him up, doesn't it? 提示：在浮华的酒店灯光下，一场电视直播的颁奖典礼上颁发的个人奖是“锦”；他的队 友们一整个赛季费力拼来的奖杯是“花”。可爱的队员，但他的话总括了他自己，不是吗 ？ Still, it all adds some further colour to the end of the season. Our players might not be good enough for the PFA team of the year, but they may yet prevent Ronaldo from icing his cake. It would be a consolation, I imagine. 不管怎麽样，这还是给本赛季的末段带来了一些色彩。也许我们队员没有那麽好，不够资 格进入最佳阵容，但是他们却可以阻止c罗锦上添花。我想，这总该是点安慰吧。 -- 伤当精采~ --

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