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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

So we finally beat Germany again. 1-0. Kicked by Owen, nodded in by Shearer. And it would have been nice too, if Germany hadn't actually put out a load of incontinent old ladies instead of playing actualy football players.

Still, we won. Which is what matters in the end I suppose. OTOH, we've still got Romania to beat. And let's hope that on Tuesday England manage to pass the ball more than 3 times before giving it away.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

I thought football/soccer was just a lame excuse to have a riot & bott each other on the 'ead?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Sorry, "bott each other on the 'ead"? Could you translate that into English?

Okay, let's do a quick check. How many countires play Football out there? *counts* Brilliant. Now, how many play Cricket. *counts less, but stilla lot*. okay. And Rugby? *Still a fair few.* Okay, now Baseball. *silence. Then, one slightly chubby hand goes up*. Okay, and American rules Football? *The hand stays up, but doesn't look too confident*.

Come on, at least the Aussies don't kid themselves that anyone else plays their version of football.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

"Bott each other on the 'ead:" what my fellow counselor from Sussex suggested we do as an initiation rite for new campers in the bunk. Needless to say, it was swiftly rejected.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Canada and Japan play baseball, too...

And I didn't know there were Americans who thought anyone else played non-soccer football. Well, maybe the really dumb ones, but there are idiots in other countries, too...

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

And several South American countries play baseball too. Where do you think many of the American's players come from? There's no need to go around bashing other people's sports. Besides any game is pretty silly if you really think about it. The whole point is to have fun, so who cares how yo do it.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Liam, apparently... :-)

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

guess so

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I hearby apologise if I have offended anyone by daring to suggest that American Football is complete and utter pants. I also apologise if I offended anyone by using "pants" in a manner which deviates from the American norm.

(Besides, I said American-Rules football, and indicated that only Americans play it. Adn America, at last count, included Canada, and obviously South America too).

Sorry, I'm still not getting "bott". Do you mean "butt" as in "headbutt"? Cause I don't know anyone from Sussex who would pronounce it that way.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

And America, at last count, included Canada...

Ngah!! I'll boot you on the 'ead. I hope you're just talking about the style of football...

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

I think he meant the continent.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Duh, I meant the continent. That's why I said "America". As oppossed to the "US".

Okay, let's have a lesson in how to speak English.

Bad "Dick van Dyke" style of speaking:

"I'll boot you on the 'head".

Correct "cockney/London" way of speaking.

"I'll kick yor fucking 'ead in if you speak like that again!"

The only people who speak like the first example are Daphne's old English boy/girlfriends on Frasier. Ignore them. They are wrong.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, seems as how I just watched two American football teams from Germany play... US and Canada aren't the only ones out there... What is it, NFL Europe League or something?

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

Some clarification:

Association Football (Soccer): Played damn near everywhere. Not sure about Nauru's squad.

Rugby Football: The second-most-worldwide team sport, IIRC. Played on every continent, with no real area of the world turning out insanely better teams than anyone else.

Aussie-rules Football: Played in Australia. Possibly the coolest sport to watch on latenight sportsnets. (*does the little umpire gun-finger thing*) Even the New Zealanders won't play it.

Gaelic Football: Only the Irish will play it, or at least I don't think its played in Scotland.

American Football: Played in U. S. of A, and nowhere else. Absolutely nowhere else. The odd Canadian playground might feature American footballs being tossed around or four-down rules, but it isn't played anywhere else. And NFL Europe doesn't count because it's a cheap marketing excuse.

Canadian Football: Bigger balls, bigger field, three downs, and cool team names like "Tiger-Cats" and "Roughriders." Not played anywhere outside of Canada.

Baseball. Played extensively in the US, Japan, some parts of Latin American (Cuba and Mexico spring to mind as the only country that puts together a decent team) Amount of play in Canada is directly proportional to the success of the Blue Jays. Otherwise, nowhere else.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Cool names? "Tiger-cats" is redundant and "Roughriders" is stolen from Teddy Roosevelt's gang... *L*

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Say soccer to a Brit and you had better be prepared to duck.

The rest of the world calls it football...and yet we call a game that rarely uses the foot on the ball, football. Interesting.

Now, baseball, there is a sport. Oh, and Korea and Taiwan have leagues. Not to mention the Dominican Republic from which a huge amout of talent has come to the big leagues.

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Hey, The_Tom, which Rough Riders are you talking about in the CFL? There are 2!

As far as the "American" Sports, they are just that, "American" We have no premonitions about Football being anything less than an american game. Granted, we'd like to take over the world and make the whole world our little America, but that isn't going to happen.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

You have no preconceptions that the rest of the world plays American sports then? So how comes it's called the "World Series"?

And they're not even your sports. You took rugby and added lots of protection (my, aren't we big hard lads), and made sure no-one had to follow the action straight for longer than 2 minutes. You took rounders and made it so boring that it's only possible to watch the sport if you get pissed. And you took baseball from netball. Come on, netball. 7 year old girls play netball. Ya bunch of big girls blouses.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Liam...look at who founded America: A bunch of uptight pussy prudes who couldn't recognize a bitchin' party if it came up & bit them on the ASS. Which it DID. "Religious freedom?" BITE me.

The descendants of these stick-up-the-assed yolos are now the ones who scream about protection for this & prevention of that. Life is dangerous. If you don't want ot accept that, then stop LIVING. You'll make MY day a LOT happier (meaning THEM, not you).

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

It's called the world series because Canada and the US are in the leagues here. Because it's not limited to one country, it can be called the World Series. And all you sports nuts are just loony. Everybody will talk big about 'their' team and how bad someone sucks. But if you ever got out on the field or court or whatever, you would just get wasted. There's a reason professionals are called that.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, when the World Series was started, it probably consisted of all the professional baseball teams in the world.

And if the founders of the US were so weak, how come we're the only country that's ever really left the British Empire? *L*

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Ahem, back to the two 'Roughriders'...

Currently, there's only one. The Saskatchewan Roughriders. (Go GREEN!)

There used to be the Ottawa Rough Riders (note the space) They are now defunct.

This end your CFL lesson.

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

When did they become defunct?

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Fuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckit

*pasue for breath*

Fuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckitfuckit

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Problems with Her Majesty's Team, or has the thread's evolution into a discussion of Canadian rules football set off some kind of Pavlovian response?

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

*Still being pleased about Holland-France 3-2, Alpha yells:*

HOLLAND KAMPIOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOEOENNNNNNN !!!!!!!!!

(subtitles: Holland Champions!)

*L*

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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

You beat their second team - wait til Barthez, Henry and Anelka play full games. You're toast - I know I'm British and I'm supposed to hate the French (which I probably do

but I can't see anyone beating the French this time.

They won the the World Cup with Stephane Guivarch up front. Now they've got Thierry Henry and Nicolas Anelka. Add to that the best defence in the world and a class midfield, I'm afraid you're looking at the next European Champions.

But wait til 2002 - England's gonna kick your arses then.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Hey! I remember where I've herad the name 'Shearer' before, on the starting for 'Actua Soccer 2'.

Is he like the Gretzky of Football?

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I dunno. Is Gretzky the Shearer of Hockey?

At least, I think it's Hockey. I'm sure he sponsored a hockey game once didn't he? Of course, what I - and most Brits - know about American sports can be written on a postage stamp. In crayon.

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