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[june]

england are on - and the dog doesnt like it - so we are upstairs. cannot hear any shouting so i guess the game is a pile of poo!

[riotgrrl]

Jun 18, 2010 19:15:00 GMT @june said:

england are on - and the dog doesnt like it - so we are upstairs. cannot hear any shouting so i guess the game is a pile of poo!

June, it's like a Kilmarnock v Dundee mid-league goalless tussle.

It is NOT an advertisement for football.

But Serbia today! How good was that?

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Seesh, this match is so dull!

[june]

Jun 18, 2010 19:18:37 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Jun 18, 2010 19:15:00 GMT @june said:

england are on - and the dog doesnt like it - so we are upstairs. cannot hear any shouting so i guess the game is a pile of poo!

June, it's like a Kilmarnock v Dundee mid-league goalless tussle.

It is NOT an advertisement for football.

But Serbia today! How good was that?

I'm with you on your analysis and I thought you'd enjoy the Serbian result! ;D

[june]

Jun 18, 2010 19:52:06 GMT @skylark said:

Seesh, this match is so dull!

I've had to pour a large glass of wine to add some excitement! I suggest you join me....

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June, I'd love to but...




...sorry, mate, I've finished the bottle!

[riotgrrl]

Jun 18, 2010 19:52:10 GMT @june said:

Jun 18, 2010 19:18:37 GMT @riotgrrl said:

June, it's like a Kilmarnock v Dundee mid-league goalless tussle.

It is NOT an advertisement for football.

But Serbia today! How good was that?

I'm with you on your analysis and I thought you'd enjoy the Serbian result! ;D

Gothboy reckons this might be the worst game of the World Cup ever in the history of time.

I have no such encyclopeadic knowledge to draw on, so I'll take his word for it.

Oh yes. Serbia. I wish I was Serbian. But I don't want to give up being Scottish.

[june]

Jun 18, 2010 20:15:20 GMT @skylark said:

June, I'd love to but...




...sorry, mate, I've finished the bottle!

and that is why wine racks were invented ;D

[june]

Jun 18, 2010 20:17:37 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Jun 18, 2010 19:52:10 GMT @june said:

I'm with you on your analysis and I thought you'd enjoy the Serbian result! ;D

Gothboy reckons this might be the worst game of the World Cup ever in the history of time.

I have no such encyclopeadic knowledge to draw on, so I'll take his word for it.

Oh yes. Serbia. I wish I was Serbian. But I don't want to give up being Scottish.

Im thinking of becoming Greek - I already have a suitable overdraft.....

[Big Lin]

England were AWFUL!

Drop Rooney and Gerrard on to the bench; start with Dafoe and Joe Cole; try changing the formation with maybe Dafoe as a lone striker with Cole playing just behind him.

We can't rely on America playing as badly against Algeria as we did.

Thanks to our own stupidity today we now have to BEAT Slovenia or hope that Algeria can beat America.

No one's managed to beat EITHER of them so far.

I'm depressed and worried!

[june]

I agree Lin - it was quite a shameful performance from so called world class players.

I am glad the crowd booed - what did Rooney expect? a standing ovation - dumb traitor deserves all the stick in the world, "blue till I die" my ass.

Let's hope the county's displeasure makes them buck up and get some pride and passion back in their football.

[fretslider]

Jun 19, 2010 10:56:13 GMT @june said:

I agree Lin - it was quite a shameful performance from so called world class players.

I am glad the crowd booed - what did Rooney expect? a standing ovation - dumb traitor deserves all the stick in the world, "blue till I die" my ass.

Let's hope the county's displeasure makes them buck up and get some pride and passion back in their football.

You call that a performance???

Bring them back home now and spare the nation any further embarrassment.

[june]

Jun 19, 2010 16:22:45 GMT fretslider said:

Jun 19, 2010 10:56:13 GMT @june said:

I agree Lin - it was quite a shameful performance from so called world class players.

I am glad the crowd booed - what did Rooney expect? a standing ovation - dumb traitor deserves all the stick in the world, "blue till I die" my ass.

Let's hope the county's displeasure makes them buck up and get some pride and passion back in their football.

You call that a performance???

Bring them back home now and spare the nation any further embarrassment.

Leave them out there for preference - they can form part of the ecological food chain.....

[june]

I'm not sure if in the game I just watched they were playing for the world cup or best actor Oscar?

Brazil should stop flopping around the pitch like landed salmon and play some football.

Very bad tempered match

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

No Trubble. I'm not much of a baseball fan. It's just as boring as soccer.

This is the low point in the year for sports. There is nothing going on of much interest.

Fortunately we do have the Tour de France to look forward to next month so it won't be a terribly long wait. I'm hoping Lance Armstrong can do the impossible and win it again at his late age. He's a hero for us old guys.

The NFL American Football teams go to training camps in July too so that's another reason to look forward to next month.

Unfortunately we have to wait until late October for the NBA Basketball teams to reassemble. That's my favorite sport and it's a long wait.

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

No Trubble. I'm not much of a baseball fan. It's just as boring as soccer.

This is the low point in the year for sports. There is nothing going on of much interest.

Fortunately we do have the Tour de France to look forward to next month so it won't be a terribly long wait. I'm hoping Lance Armstrong can do the impossible and win it again at his late age. He's a hero for us old guys.

The NFL American Football teams go to training camps in July too so that's another reason to look forward to next month.

Unfortunately we have to wait until late October for the NBA Basketball teams to reassemble. That's my favorite sport and it's a long wait.

[randomvioce]

Jun 18, 2010 20:17:37 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Gothboy reckons this might be the worst game of the World Cup ever in the history of time.

Ask him about Scotland V Iran 1978

[riotgrrl]

Jun 20, 2010 23:08:58 GMT @randomvioce said:

Jun 18, 2010 20:17:37 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Gothboy reckons this might be the worst game of the World Cup ever in the history of time.

Ask him about Scotland V Iran 1978

I did.

And notwithstanding that he was only 8 years old at the time, he recalls the game.

He says;

"At least there were a couple of goals in Scotland v Iran".

So there.

[randomvioce]

Jun 21, 2010 20:19:41 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Jun 20, 2010 23:08:58 GMT @randomvioce said:

Ask him about Scotland V Iran 1978

I did.

And notwithstanding that he was only 8 years old at the time, he recalls the game.

He says;

"At least there were a couple of goals in Scotland v Iran".

So there.

None of which were scored by a Scotsman.

[alanseago]

Ah Basketball, another variation of an English schoolgirl game, this one called Netball.
Why do they no longer wear gymslips over there? Much more masculine.

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

Alan - No sport compares with NBA Basketball. It's the best.

Watch this video clip from a couple years ago when Tracy McGrady scored 13 points in 35 seconds. This is as good as it ever gets in sports.

Be sure to watch this in the full screen mode.

Soccer doesn't ever have anything this good.

[beth]

woo hoo ... thank you, das

That was extremely cool and a good example of why it's hard to convince many Americans to like soccer. The faster paced action with a big adrenaline shoot is fairly addictive. Easy to love.

I like college better than pro, but it's the same rush.

[♫anna♫]

Jun 21, 2010 23:36:57 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

Alan - No sport compares with NBA Basketball. It's the best.

Watch this video clip from a couple years ago when Tracy McGrady scored 13 points in 35 seconds. This is as good as it ever gets in sports.

Be sure to watch this in the full screen mode.

Soccer doesn't ever have anything this good.

Hi Das!
I like to go bike riding and i'll play basketball. Watching those sports only puts me to sleep though! Only watching golf bores me more! US football??-using your head as a battering ram, as a good linebaker does??-hmm? I'm very ambivalent about football/soccer too.

Hey since neither of us qualifies as a football/soccer fan aren't we kind of like trespassing here? ;D

[riotgrrl]

Jun 21, 2010 20:50:50 GMT @randomvioce said:

Jun 21, 2010 20:19:41 GMT @riotgrrl said:

I did.

And notwithstanding that he was only 8 years old at the time, he recalls the game.

He says;

"At least there were a couple of goals in Scotland v Iran".

So there.

None of which were scored by a Scotsman.

True, but nonetheless his point holds. There were at least goals in that match.

[randomvioce]

Jun 21, 2010 23:36:57 GMT DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) said:

Alan - No sport compares with NBA Basketball. It's the best.

Watch this video clip from a couple years ago when Tracy McGrady scored 13 points in 35 seconds. This is as good as it ever gets in sports.

Be sure to watch this in the full screen mode.

Soccer doesn't ever have anything this good.

For a start, basketball isn't a real sport. We used to play basketball at school when it was too wet to play real sport. By the time we get to 16 most of us grow out of it. There are teams here, but I doubt most of us could mention even one or two British teams. However, I think most of us would be able to American teams. I think I could name a good half dozen, but there are people who could name all the teams. Basketball is popular among black communities here though, which is understandable as it mainly a black sport.

So a guy scored 13 points, what is the big deal? Baskball nearly always ends up with each team scoring 90 to a hundred points anyway so if someone scores 13 of these points in less than a minute, so what? Nearly every posession ends up with a goal anyway, so where is the exitement? How can anyone find a goal in basketball enjoyable when they are so common?

In football, goals are so rare, which is why people enjoy them. Who would be interested in watching a game where everytime you get the ball you score?