Jú og nei, sigur starvsfelagin Rói Joensen, sum staðfestir, at vitlíki hevur givið mállærarum nýggjar avbjóðingar. - Vitlíkið er eitt nýtt, hent og lætt atkomuligt amboð til uppgávur, sum kunnu verða merktar av handahógvsarbeiði, so sum strikta týðing og at skriva stíl. Men nýggja og vælkomna avbjóðingin er, at nú mugu vit í skúlanum í nógv størri mun tosa fremmandamálið, sum er á talvuni. Verður rætt atborðið kann úrslitið neyvan blíva nakað annað enn nógv betri, heldur Rói.
My colleague Rói Joensen has initiated the AI translation of my original Faroese blog on Saturday October 21, 2023 to the English language, using Bing Chat with GPT-4. The AI translation is published here:
Today is derby day at Anfield in Liverpool, where the local football clubs Everton and Liverpool meet. The 4-3-3 club arranges a trip to the match and I am on board. For the first time in my life, I am going to put together, or at least to observe, a match and review it here at The Albert, the only original house still standing at Anfield. Under the ceiling hang The Merkið and other Faroese football flags. Behind the sports area, Faroese stones are laid in the garden. It’s exciting to see such a passionate interest in a phenomenon that is driven by boundless interest, as with Cat Stevens, where father and son is a recurring theme. Football is the name of the game.
The two neighboring teams have a common origin, founded in 1878. The genealogy says that Everton moved to Anfield in 1884 on an area that John Houlding, the football president they called, owned, in addition to him having previously been mayor of the city. The defender in TB, Petur Hammer, 74, whom Vagnur Michelsen on Hvannrók remembers as a quick and excellent attacking back, tells me that in 1892, the same year as Faroe’s oldest football club, Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag, was founded, a disagreement arises between Houlding and the board of Everton about ownership issues and access to the field. The result was that Everton moved to the neighboring area Goodison Park to be and play that same year. Therefore, Liverpool Football Club is fourteen years younger than Everton, which undoubtedly most famous city son still alive, 81-year-old Paul McCartney, occasionally visited, although none of The Beatles were particularly sporty, as he says in his own words in this article about Everton in the book “The Beatles Anthology” (2000):
Today Paul McCartney is current with the book “Eyes of the storm”, which are photos he took in 1964. The book counts 336 pages and weighs five pounds. Therefore I refrain from buying it because my suitcase is limited.
But about the masterful right back on Tvøroyri, Petur Hammer, who is with us on the trip, and his team says Vagnur in the same blog that “TB won the FM title in 1951 but then TB did not win the FM title again until 1976. TB won the FM title in 1976, 1977 and 1980 and TB’s team was such a well-playing team that people still talk about.” Petur says it’s his wife who is responsible for him, his son and grandsons being in Liverpool. - It’s her who has bought me a 75th birthday gift," says Petur who turns 75 next month.
At Jürgen Klopp’s press table at Liverpool I ask him what was the best and funniest moment in football to think back on today.
• Yes," says Petur," it was when we had won the cup but then played on Tvøroyri in 1977 and first lost three nil against VB. Afterwards we played in Vágur and won three nil against VB there. That’s my best football memory," says Petur leaning forward on Klopp’s press table.
Petur Hammer tells me that his foremost football role model was always Torstein Magnussen from Argir whom we know from B36 and who recently passed away. - He was a humor player," says Petur happily. Then one of his grandsons asks if Petur knows everyone. It gives an opportunity to change words about what’s best about football: creating good and lasting relationships. - Football creates friendships," says Petur.
Although newly built in every way and with prayer rooms for all religions both football fields are still at the same places Anfield and Goodison so close to each other 970 meters that you can see both at once just with Stanley Park’s green corridor between them but the view and curiosity are just crazy if you don’t hold on to either I get told. The first picture was taken through the rain from Anfield yesterday. In front of it on the wall painting is Welsh Ian Rush 62 who also played with Liverpool. The last pictures of Goodison and from Stanley Park were taken after match end in today’s good weather.
"Adaptability is the foremost mantra in football at this stage. In 2010, American John Henry and his Henry’s Fenway Sports Group bought the English football team in Liverpool and other American teams. Now another money group, Dynasty Equity, has bought a part of the football club in Liverpool for a hundred to two hundred million dollars, says Proactive Investors. The local team, Everton, has also gone into American money hands, 777 Partners in Miami, have bought the 94 percent of the spectator company that Farhad Moshiri previously owned.
It is a strange feeling when you walk through the pearl gate with a valid football ticket and consider yourself to be in the most English of English socialist fellowship in a healthy body, as the secret health apostles with the snap in the commune boxes have always said.
Jordan Henderson, former team captain in Liverpool, sold himself earlier this year to Saudi Arabian Al Ettifaq. It was heard again last Friday when he led the English national team in a practice match against Australia. Spectators were dissatisfied. 33-year-old Henderson used to be among the foremost LGBT advocates, but in his new employer country, Saudi Arabia, everything is strictly prohibited.
One of the few players, perhaps the only one who is local and born on site, is 25-year-old Trent Alexander-Arnold. - Considered one of the best right backs in the world, says football press, although he has number 66 on his back. The law. He is seen farthest to the right in the picture above by the club 4-3-3. The others are in the same row Louis Diaz, 26, from Colombia, goalkeeper Alisson Becker, 31, from Brazil, Mohamed Salah, 31, from Egypt, and then Dominik Szoboszlai, 22, from Hungary farthest to the left. Football jesters who sit under every word can more than so come up with saying about star Salah that while Jesus at one point put City ahead scored Mohamed for Liverpool so it stood even. And Wednesday night Salah sent a bold greeting to all world leaders on old Twitter medium now called X to prevent “further slaughter of innocent souls”. Thoughtful are Petur and I agreed now that world situation also on football fields on our ways is so unstable that it is easy to get stuck in perhaps especially now today after 11.000 virgins.
The tour guides at 4-3-3 Mortan Joensen and Lasse Weihe sit down in Liverpool’s changing room under jersey number 8 by Dominik Szoboszlai. For the trip they have found a good hotel Holiday Inn downtown where we meet Norwegians and Icelanders and then they got bus driver up north in Scotland to drive through Lockerbie. Thanks for that.
Uber driver who has driven us out here puts all hopes on same football player as Mortan and Lasse. So he says driver that he listens little after Beatles but goes high up in football. - It can be a burden of that kind of blow to lift heritage after The Beatles. You don’t get away from it. Then it’s different with those relations that football always gives says Darren Robert. - That Hungarian guy is my favourite at the moment he says about Szoboszlai. And then Klopp is the best German import ever he says. Petur leans back Robertson. Another driver we drove with yesterday says same when I ask him about travel business and culture bearing difference between Beatles and football here in town. I ask if he had chosen football over Beatles as local scouser? Yes so hundred percent. It’s our lifeline football he says.
And Everton? Yes if asked current goalkeeper on English national teams is 29-year-old Jordan Pickford from Everton. We can rejoice about that inside The Shankley Gates at Anfield today. But don’t talk so much about it. Everton otherwise builds new field down by docks.
"I understand that the reason the match between the local teams starts as early as half past twelve is that it is a high risk match. To prevent spectators from having hours to get drunk and clash in the crowded streets of Liverpool, the match is scheduled as early in the day as possible. Although the ball is round, I can’t say anything other than it’s a matter of life and death.
Although there is room for 54,074 people, Anfield is sold out today. The plan was to expand so that 61,000 people could sit and watch the matches, but the worker has gone on strike, so the plan is currently halted. We meet a father and son from Bodø, who wonder how many people are inside here at the stadium. All of Faroe Islands, he says and we exchange words about hit songs by Ole Ivars, Kari Bremnes and Bjørn Eidsvåg.
The anthem, the sentimentally, almost religiously romantically demanding, “You’ll never walk alone”, or YNWA as the illiterate and illiterate say, has been used for three years this Monday. This has been calculated by the Norwegian Liverpool maintenance association and announced on the day.
Rodgers and Hammerstein own the song, which was included in the musical Carousel in 1945, but Liverpool orchestra Gerry and the Pacemakers interpreted and performed it in 1963, straight after the hearts of football players and spectators here in town, and it also caught on with both German football clubs of 56-year-old Jürgen Klopp - Mainz 05, where he played from 1990 to 2001 when he left the field and became a coach until seven years later he went to Borussia Dortmund which he led and trained for seven other years until he went into exile with Bee Gees smile to Beatles town and became head coach at Liverpool Football Club.
• He is widely regarded as one of the best football managers in the world, says British Wikipedia with four football media as sources among them Goal and Eurosport.
My colleague Rói agrees.
The song “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, which Celtic also uses in Glasgow, echoes on three-year day here at Anfield but without lead singer Gerry Marsden who passed away last year aged 78.
In numbers they take all Faroe Islands at once are a Faroese microcosm and sing with gefühl as if it was a funeral and we are tearful on the grave hill and have to let go of ropes under coffin and lower it down into newly dug black earth but then voices crack and we are like rusty image of club Liver Bird mythological avatar bird that resembles him which local ornithological teachers call cormorant that is big and rusty cormorant in our language with tear in beak as image of seafaring British working class city Liverpool.
A female priest we talk to in Liverpool Cathedral is fascinated by our talk about birds as images and we go over to altar chairs and floor where similar birds are seen although they are not directly liver birds like on sign at The Royal Liver Building.
Mikkjal á Ryggi says in “Fuglabókini” (1951) about cormorant: - Morning and evening he travels along land and dives after fish. During day they often sit several together with belly down on sea rock and dry with wings. If boat comes by they plunge into dive so quickly they swim under water that boat has trouble getting them again. Before cormorant was much around Faroe Islands. Now there is almost only eididuck left of building bird and fear is that he will die out completely. It’s a shame to lose this beautiful bird says Faroese Mikkjal.
In the English song, we have now come to the point where the war bird of the Liverpudlians spreads its wings, as in “The Black Raven” by Martini Joensen, it ends and reminds us of patience with the narrative beach, because one day you will win. Walk on. The funeral song is now a prayer and the mythological bird calls for war and achievements.
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Also on Kop’s viewing platforms, which we visited yesterday, at the end of the field, where the ashes of cremated Bill Shankley were scattered when he died 68 years old in 1981. The funeral was from Liverpool Cathedral, where we have just visited. Walk on.
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The first time I heard the quote about the life-threatening in football, I thought the Pope in Rome owned the words. But it is from Bill Shankley that he had taken them: - Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Scottish Bill Shankley was appointed as the ninth coach of Liverpool in 1959, who played 783 matches and won 400, three league competitions, two FA Cups and one UEFA Cup. The entrance to Anfield is called Shankly Gates, where the song title “You’ll Never Walk Alone” stands on the gate, which can be seen at the top and bottom of this blog.
Another well-known Scottish name is Kenny Dalglish, 72, from Glasgow, who was coach of Liverpool 1985-1991 and again 2011-2012. - He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and one of Liverpool’s greatest ever players, say both football magazine FourFourTwo in “Ranked! The 100 best football players of all time” in September this year, and newspaper The Telegraph in article “Best Liverpool players ever, the top 50” in March 2015.
29-year-old Andrew Robertson, who is also from Glasgow, is described in Liverpool’s largest newspaper Echo as “one of the best left-backs in the world, Robertson is known for his vision, athleticism and physical power”. The Scottish association seems to be a guarantee for good results at Liverpool. But unfortunately, he has broken his shoulder and the Greek Scouser, they say here, 27-year-old Kostas Tsimikas, who was released from Celtic because he was so small, comes on the field instead of Robertson.
But back to the South African name Kop, which refers to Spion Kop hill in Boer War in 1900. The African name association also reaches Kvívík because - Walk on - this same year Jóan Petur Gregoriussen up in Trøð (1845-1901), also called IPG by those who knew him well, wrote about Spion Kop in a poem that so vividly tells us about the sea-sick Chamberlain who can’t get enough and how we oppressed Boers in South Africa like we oppressed Faroese like the poet tirelessly held on in Boer War poem even though they came from Netherlands. Árni Dahl who has collected poems and tales on open education portal Snar says:
• We present here a poem that was written around turn of century 1900 and for a poem it is written about a subject that is rarely discussed in our world of poetry. It’s about “Boer War”, which Jóan Petur up in Trøð had printed in “Fuglaframa” no. 13 Tuesday October 16th 1900 with title “Something small about Transvaal War days 1899-1900” - he used melody to bridal song.
"In the first two verses, we get a character description of IPG’s British Chamberlain:
A certain hunger over Chamberlain came against the year nineteen hundred. He sat outside on a mountain drum as flat as any flounder. So soft and cunning about the world he saw, he wanted to eat everything, before his eyes lay, before the cannons would thunder.
To satisfy that man was not possible, in what they so for him set, both flesh and hair, both courage and will, both people and countries, they flattened. They brought from Denmark eggs and butter mixed together with wheat from England’s earth, yet he did not feel satisfied.
In the seventeenth verse comes the place of honor at Anfield for - Spion Kop:
But plans can break, and it broke there, so easily should the journey not go, first Tugela river was on the way, about her it was hard to go, hard Buller he roars against Spions Kop, but did not get over that mountain top, and Joubert did not let himself be butted.
Faroese news knows about this world, that a seafarer, Óli Olsen, Ólavur in Stórustovu, born in 1862, has taken a ship’s certificate in Norway, married a Boer woman from South Africa, that they settled in Johannesburg, have three daughters and that the brave seafarer becomes a commander in the Boer army. When he has fallen like the others, the widow and the daughters move to London.
In Rituvík there has also been such a great interest in the wars of the Boers, that in Heiðunum they could more than so-called Rituvík Boers, says Edvard, who is with in the flight, but goes to Glasgow with his son Djóni to listen after Deep Purple. - In Rituvík there is also a boat by Dánjal Peturi Højgaard, which bears the name “Boarin”, says Edvard.
Don’t know if it’s just this path that got Victor Danielsen to translate the social realist beer book about children on the street in Liverpool, “Her Benny, A Story of Streetlife”, which Cornish Methodist priest Silas B. Hocking wrote in 1879, and Nýggja Forlagið published in Fuglafjørður in 1949 under the title “Einglar hansara” and later under the title “Benny hennara: einglar hansara” (1969). The National Library says that thirteen copies stand on Faroese lending shelves. In the seventies a film was made from the story.
But today we are in modern Beatles city Liverpool and look after football at Anfield. Live right in town with Liverpool One shopping area, which was finished when the city became European city of culture in 2008, with a group of architects and restaurants, 170 shops and 3000 seats in 14 cinemas under the name Odeon. Maybe a model when discussions about city center construction in Tórshavn and placement of National Theater.
Tonight is dinner at Miller & Carter at Albert Dock Atlantic Pavilion down there at Albert Docks. Last night it was Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill downtown where we met dad and son from Bodø. Tomorrow it’s Beatles tour with John Dam’s friend from Vestmanna, Owen from Liverpool.
And the result? Well, Liverpool won over Everton with two goals against none. Thanks to Salah. And that both times. The card was Colombian Luis Diaz chosen man of the match.
• Fun fact this was not Liverpool’s best match, maybe more ordinary, but we won. No player was really good, Liverpool was better team, and Egyptian king decided match. And that’s what counts, says colleague Rói.
Bergur Hansen who is with on trip and seen with Liverpool dry clothes under song above says it’s hard to choose a player.
• The team did not play well and no one stood out. There came more speed on match after Klop switched Harvey Elliot and Darwin Nunez into second half time and it made Liverpool take control of match and came to big chances which so ended good goals. So I think I’m going to say Klop was best player for Liverpool against Everton by making that change on team says Bergur.
The travel planners, Mortan and Lasse, say the same, but lean towards Szoboszlai as the best player today.
After my first football report, I thank you for me and my blog - not marked by Egyptian Salah and his responsible reminder to the world’s leaders about the current situation in the Middle East - from The Albert Anfield Pub in Liverpool. Salah is certainly the fourth pyramid in Egypt. But the best was the song. Over and done.
This is an AI translation brought to you by Bing chat with GPT-4
