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The Quadrennial Global Round-Ball Extravaganza
StaedlerMars:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 12 Jun 2010, 07:01 ---Today is like sport ULTIMATE here: not only are the UK playing but it's also the Bumps so if you're not into football you can get into rowing. It's crazy in town.
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The UK are not playing. </false patriotism>
Inlander:
Good thing, too: if they were playing they might have to pick some Scottish players!
Funnily enough, once upon a time when football was first getting started, Scottish players were prized by English teams for their skill. Or so a T.V. show I saw years ago told me.
StaedlerMars:
The thing with Scotland is that they're really not that bad. They just suck at winning the matches that matter.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: est on 12 Jun 2010, 04:53 ---Like, I appreciate that Nazi Germany is a pretty bad place but it's going to keep being bad whether the Olympics is held there or not and none of us really have any say on whether the Nazi authorities govern their country well or shoot babies or what have you, so can't we just talk about sport instead of getting into a fucking stupid argument that won't change anything about the underlying situation?
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Godwin'd yr post.
Seriously though, can we? You really don't think it is dreadful to be crassly enjoying a corporate-sponsored bread and circuses event that has caused suffering to thousands of people? By supporting the World Cup uncritically and 'just talking about sport', you are basically saying to the SA authorties, and everyone else, that this behaviour is absolutely normal and fine. You're shitting on real fucking living people who are having their lives destroyed for the sake of a glorified playground game. I'm sorry you don't want to think about that, but I don't think you can somehow claim that I'm being some sort of deliberately obtuse fly in the ointment just because I care about other members of the human race!
amok:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 12 Jun 2010, 08:08 ---Good thing, too: if they were playing they might have to pick some Scottish players!
Funnily enough, once upon a time when football was first getting started, Scottish players were prized by English teams for their skill. Or so a T.V. show I saw years ago told me.
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Scotland are still the all-time world champions. Kinda.
Shame about their league/players/team/everything in the last 50 years though.
After all the hype around this England/Team USA USA USA game I have a sneaking suspicious it'll be a bore draw or a 1-0 from a Terry header, can't wait to be proved wrong though.
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