Embarrasment is even better! But I know how and what you mean, and the stuff with “shame” came from my memories of Gijón (and Córdoba) and how those events are still being reported in Germany, not what you said. As I wrote: no reproach intended. This is my own idée fixe. That game has had an undue influence on my perspective of football. I am really still angry about it. A couple of Algerians apart I may be the most angry person about it in the planet.
Embarrassment is really the perfect word.
Not that you are ever going to convince most Argentinians or even Brazilians of that.
Case in point the front page of the late, lamented El Gráfico Magazine when we lost 0-5 against Colombia:
(Verguenza = shame)
And for Brazilians:
“Vergonha” = “Verguenza”
Everything turned out to be ok, but we had at least a week of extreme anxiety while waiting for exam results.
QED.
I do.
And I very glad to read that! Waiting for the pictures of the tattoo or it didn’t happen.