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snowymav · 2 years

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going to footy matches with tangerine despite not being interested in the game. seeing how excited he gets whenever his team scores and how angry he gets whenever the opposing team does, swearing, shouting and cheering them on for the full 90 minutes. and then when it’s over, because he stays until the very end, you end up in the floods of people leaving the stadium getting shoved in every direction. tangerine makes sure to keep you close, arms linked as he puffs out his chest ready to hurt anyone that so much as comes close to you.

when you get out of the stadium he’ll walk the two of you over to his car, holding your hand as you cross the roads, pulling you back onto the pavement if you accidentally step out in front of a car. taking it out on the car rather than the fact you weren’t paying attention to your surroundings, cursing blindly at the poor driver and tugging you along with his middle finger pointing towards the front window.

and when you get home, lemon would be waiting on the couch half asleep, jumping up into a fighting stance before yours and his brothers laughter finds its way to his ears. sitting back down and letting you cuddle up to his side as tangerine makes you all a cup of tea. then you’d let yourself fall asleep as the two boys talked about the match, lemon having watched it on the tv while you were out.

being jostled awake by tangerine picking you up, blinking tiredly before snuggling into him.

#protective tan #him being a west ham supporter makes my heart melt #i love this man #tangerine #lemon and tangerine #my favourite people #lemon #tangerine x reader #bullet train movie #bullet train

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walkonwalkonwithhopeinyourheart · 4 years

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Sami Hyypiä on his Liverpool career, the fans, his last game and Rafa Benitez via /r/LiverpoolFC

Sami Hyypiä on his Liverpool career, the fans, his last game and Rafa Benitez

So, I've had a lot of time on my hands, and I've been filling the void of no football with football on youtube and came across this youtube video, which was a show called Supertähdet(Superstars in Finnish), recorded in 2016-2017, that I watched a few years ago. Where a bunch of Finnish sporting legends got together and went through eachothers careers and this episode is about Sami Hyypiä.

He is joined by legendary ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion and Anaheim Ducks legend Teemu Selänne, Golfer Minea Blomqvist, up until February 8, IBO and WBC Women's Super-featherweight boxing champion Eva Wahlström, Olympic Silver Medalist snowboarder Peetu Piiroinen, 10-time Finnish Pesäpallo champion, which is the Finnish version of baseball basically, Toni Kohonen and of course absolutely legendary singer-athlete-alcoholic-tabloid star and 4-time Olympic gold, 5-time World Champion and 22-time Finnish champion, ski jumping legend Matti Nykänen, who is by some considered the greatest ski jumper of all time.

Of these Matti Nykänen and Teemu Selänne are considered a lot bigger sporting legends in Finland than Sami Hyypiä.

Now on to the episode, the ~10 minute clip is CC'd on youtube in English, but as we established I have a lot of time on my hands, so I thought I'd transcribe it for those of you that enjoy reading over listening to Finnish for 10-minutes.

Sami Hyypiä- "A contract with my childhood dream club is like pulled from a fairytale, no one had any expectations because I didn't come with a big transfer fee, and I think all the Liverpool fans thought, when they read in the papers, that they've signed this Finnish centre-back probably thought "Who is this guy?", but for me it was only the beginning."

Hyypiä's mother: "He went with his humble personality, but never fawned"

Hyypiä's father: "Of course it always was a great feeling being there, but tension was always high thinking "How is he going to do, hope that he doesn't make any big mistakes"."

SH(Sami for future reference): "I noticed that I was doing pretty well here and that gave me confidence."

Sami's mum: "Sami did really get in well in the team and probably worked really hard to always be in the starting XI:"

SH: "I always do everything I can and really from that I developed a good relationship with the Liverpool fans and they noticed this lanky guy from Finland no one knows, also knows a bit how to play."

Video of Sami scoring

Sami's mum: "It was always emotional, we cried everytime, and everytime we were at Anfield and that music started, oh dear. It was incredible."

Aki Riihilahti(Finnish NT player with Hyypiä, 69 caps, 157 apps for Crystal Palace): "In Liverpool he's a legend, if we talk about current history, the best Liverpool players, the modern times, Sami Hyypiä is one of the three first names that come to mind. In Finland we don't understand what kind of stature he holds in England, everyone knows who Sami Hyypiä is there. Sami Hyypiä is like a rockstar there, but still has something human(down to earth) that many others don't. At the time when he was already one of Liverpool captains, and others competed with who has the nicest car, Sami came in a Mini. A 195cm(6'3'') guy in a small Mini,and you can imagine how it melted the hearts of people there and he always had time to talk to all the fans he met."

TS(Teemu Selänne for future reference): "When you see those fans so fanatic and that Sami thing in the stands, how does that make you feel?"

SH: "Of course it feels great and you know you've done at least something right and people remember you, but Liverpool is really a working class city and they appreciate if you put yourself on the line for the club and team and when you see the flags you get tears in your eyes. But ever since the beginning the fans were really nice to me, they noticed my character and it was easy to prepare for that first season because no one had any expectations. But then again when the first season went well, it was a lot harder preparing for the second season because the people had higher expectations and you of course wanted to match those expectations. The consistency and the working everyday and the way I wanted to actually focus on the things we did in training and didn't just go there to hang out for an hour and a half joking around with friends. Every execution, receiving the ball and passing it had to be perfect and only then was I satisfied. Every missed pass I'd beat myself up over and I had this mentality in training. The coach said you could take it easier in training, but I told him "I can't.". That's a strength I've had for all my career that all the training we do, I do 100%."

TS: "How do you think you were made Liverpool captain, it's an incredible honour, and very few guys are picked for that, but what do you think were the criteria that you were picked?"

SH: " I don't really know, probably that I got along with everyone. To be honest it was pretty incredible for me as well, I'd only been at the club for three months and we went to London to play West Ham and before the match the manager came and told me "Both the captain and the vice-captain are injured, so you have the armband now.". You were just quiet for a while and looked around. But probably in England, the captaincy is a lot more appreciated than in Finland, in Finland maybe the oldest player is the captain and that's it. But It was great to once have been a captain for a club like that. I actually also remember the day when the captaincy went from me to Steven Gerrard and when the armband was no longer on my arm, my performances improved.

TS: "That kind of pressure went away?"

SH: "Well yes, and somehow it was easier to focus on your own performance and I was playing better."

Toni Kohonen: "It was liberating?"

SH:"Yes, but of course it was a great thing being the captain of the club I've supported since I was a child, it's amazing."

Peetu Piiroinen: "Incredible thing."

Montage of Sami at Liverpool

SH: "A few younger centre-backs came to Liverpool and the manager played them more than me, but I wasn't angry with them or the manager either to be honest. The managers job is to win games."

Aki Riihilahti: "The one thing that actually still bothers me to this day is, all that Sami Hyypiä did for Liverpool and what kind of status he held there but still the kind of goodbye Rafael Benitez gave to him. I think it's unforgivable. I think it was wrong, I think he would have deserved a lot more because he was still a great player. I thought it was a scandal. (jokingly)That Benitez is proper knob like no other."

SH: "Of course it was an emotional game the last one but that's how it is."

Toni Kohonen: "What do you remember from the last day? What was the game like? "

SH: "Actually when I think back on that day when it was the last game there(Anfield), and comparing it to the last game of my career, that last game in Liverpool was harder. 10 years there, and I left friends there and went to a new country and new club, and my career continued from there. I was sure I could still play, but didn't get a chance at Liverpool anymore, and then Leverkusen came in and said they have a young team and they need experience, kind of like a father figure, and then I went there, that's how it was. Actually, about that last game, Aki already mentioned it, it wasn't really right what Benitez did, Benitez told me before the game "You're on the bench" and he'd get me on in the end and I'd get to have my farewell, he didn't want to play me from kick-off if I played bad, then people will remember that and remember me badly because of my last game because I've been then for long and so on. But I think he was more afraid I'd play well and fans would criticise him for letting me leave."

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