OT World Cup
note.boy
draw. :-) Billy
som...@some.domain
>Congratulations to the USA from all Scottish people for holding England to a
>draw. :-) Billy
>
>
Tony Clayton
I object.
If Scotland were playing I would give them every support,
unless they were playing England ;-)
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... Pound forehead on keyboard to continue.
Ian
> Congratulations to the USA from all Scottish people for holding England to a
> draw. :-) Billy
>
>
Ahem! We don't all want England to fail....especially those of us who
drew England in the office sweepstake!!!!
Ian
note.boy
"Ian" <I...@somewhereovertherainbow.com> wrote in message
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Nae luck. Billy
oly
On the whole, I believe that the English are rather kind to the Scots,
especially considering the recent lot of Prime Ministers the Scots
have provided.
oly
"and besides, only the World Series counts for squat in the Grand
Scheme of the Universe..."
Ian
We scots are very tollerant of other people's belief systems......... ;)
som...@some.domain
>note.boy krabde zich op het hoofd en verklaarde te 19-6-2010:
>> Congratulations to the USA from all Scottish people for holding England to a
>> draw. :-) Billy
>
>
>Nico
>
>(Who is ashamed for the 'German like' soccer which is now played by
>Orange, the Dutch team and the former Brasilians of Europe. Every
>soccer loving Dutch is. It looks like someone dressed 11 robots in
>Orange and black and programmed them to play awful soccer, yuck)
>
>
nah, you need 22 over muscled gorillas running around a field with dead animal
skins slapping each other on the butt.
Donald Weber
Orange, the Dutch team and the former Brasilians of Europe. Every
soccer loving Dutch is. It looks like someone dressed 11 robots in
Orange and black and programmed them to play awful soccer, yuck)
I know this will be jumped on, but...... "awful soccer" I mean how could you
possibly tell? That is, in such a game as this one. Like some one has said
recently if God had wanted us play soccer he would have shaped our feet like
our hands. Paint drying or grass growing comes to mind.
Scott Stevenson
>Donald Weber krabde zich op het hoofd en verklaarde te 23-6-2010:
>>
>> I know this will be jumped on, but...... "awful soccer" I mean how could you
>> possibly tell? That is, in such a game as this one. [snip]
>
>Haha, it is awful soccer when the ball is played around and around and
>around... AND no serious goal attempts are made. Then everyone gets
>bored and complaining.
>
>But then again, maybe it is a difference of culture? I don't like to
>watch baseball (ouch!) or American Football (double ouch!), nor do I
>amuse myself by watching an icehockeygame, so I don't bother and don't
>watch it ;-)
I think you might be right about the cultural difference. I
remember back when I was in high school, 30 or so years ago, being
told that it was going to be the next big thing in American sports.
I've tried watching--I really have (not just the current World Cup).
I just can't get into it, which is odd, because I enjoy ice hockey,
and there are some similarities.
I know it's not just a "not invented here" bias--I've been known to
get up at 4AM on a Sunday to watch an F1 race.
I can certainly appreciate the skill it takes to play at that
level--how somebody does a bicycle kick and not break their neck on
the landing is beyond me.
Maybe there's a lot of stuff going on away from the ball that would
allow me to enjoy it if I saw it in person. Baseball is a lot like
that--what you can see if you attend a game is about 10X what you see
on TV.
>
>No matter what, the USA team hold their own at SOCCER at this world
>championship. And the people who like the game are amazed and truly
>delighted how the USA team did just that. Mainly because soccer is not
>a 'great sport' in the USA like baseball or American football and the
>USA are relatively 'newcomers' to this game. And so, the appearence of
>Team USA at a world championship soccer should be something to be proud
>of, because teams of the whole world have been competing to just be
>there.
Looking back at our history, about half the time we get in, we exit
after the first round (which is about average, since the first round
cuts the field in half). Since there isn't the kind of following in
the US that there is in other countries, once we're out, it's hard to
get us interested in South Korea vs. Uraguay :-)
>
>I'm proud the Dutch team is there, in spite of the play they have shown
>the first two games they we're engaged in.
You got through the first round--now you just need to roll over
Cameroon, and not get anybody hurt*.
*Which brings up a question--once a baseball or American football
team has clinched a playoff spot, it's common to rest the starters so
that they'll be fresh for the playoffs, and most importantly, not get
hurt. Would the Dutch team (or any team that knows it's going to
advance) do that?
take care,
Scott
Jud
historically.
It is HOCKEY, not Ice Hockey. The differentiation is made with Field
Hockey.
It is SKIING, not Snow Skiing. The differentiation is made with Water
Skiing.
An ATM is an Automatic Teller Machine, not an ATM machine, which would
be redundant.
Jud -Chairman of the Department of Redundancy Department-
(To be correct, soccer really is Football, not to be confused with
American Football)
mazorj
"Jud" <numis...@aol.com> wrote in message
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No problem, these same ones bug me.
But "personal pet peeve of mine" is redundant. You could have omitted
"personal". ;-)
- mazorj, Compulsively Obsessive Micromanaging Persnickety Nitpicker
Extraordinnaire
Mr. Jaggers
I just love PIN numbers and VIN numbers, don't you?
James