7. Meryl Streep singing 'The Winner Takes It All' in Mamma Mia VS. Diego Maradona's second goal against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final.
The film: Meryl Streep sings Abba's 'The Winner Takes It All'.
The football: The greatest footballer of all-time scores the greatest goal of all-time.
The winner: Football. In a dazzling, balletic display of physical and psychological domination, Maradona skips and scurries and dribbles the ball around five England players before slotting it home.
Meryl Streep, on the other hand, crucifies Abba's anthemic, bittersweet elegy to marital breakdown by squawking it on a hilltop in Greece to Pierce Brosnan with his hands in his pockets.
And the overall winner is... Technically, football. But surely there's room for liking both films and football in our modern, information-overloaded, credit-crunch world. And what if you don't like football in the first place? Look - just forget it...
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Lindz28
Mar 27th 2009, 11:19
Well if you compare the most monumental moments in football history to big steaming turd piles like Mamma Mia then of COURSE footbal is going to win!! :)
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