Serbia 2008 Update

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

So, footballist Marcel Desailly has been commentating on his "native" Ghana for the BBC at the African Cup of Nations, despite the fact that he represented his "native" France throughout his playing career. This kind of thing is commonplace in footballism, and increasingly it's becoming common in Eurovision.

Slovenian singer ditches Romania to represent Ireland

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"they stand a better chance in Ireland having to compete against less participants than in Romania"

Bad esctoday, no biscuit. Fewer participants, fewer.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

That sounds like turnabout for Ireland loaning someone to the Norway entry a dozen years back so that we could stop winning and crippling the economy.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think this is like transgendering -- the easier it is to do the more likely the relevantly footloose will be doing it

my shaky allegiance is to my "native" planet :(

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I should point out that I heard about this story because my friend Jana in Ljubljana knows the singer in question (and hates her)!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

having only read about this last week i didn't know that Desailly was adopted by french diplomats as a tiny baby (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,2243748,00.html) (about two-thirds of the way through the article), so he is native to both France and Ghana.