beatsMcGee
Pioneer Member
Re: 2010 World Cup-South Africa
Italy has a lot of improving to do if they want to make a mark in this World Cup.
Italy has a lot of improving to do if they want to make a mark in this World Cup.
Yes Mr, Williams, £5.00 sterling will be going to the Marie Curie trust, a service that looks after teminally ill Cancer suffers last days in there own homes. Rasied £445.00 pounds for them recently by swimming 4KM in 1 hour 30Mins.
Anyway back to it. Now i dare you to go into any pub in Scotland or Wales and make that remark that you quoted, i would garrentee, you would not come out as you went in. And seriusly, i am not joking when i say that, feelings really do run that high. between the british nations.
Its like me saying, i went to Cananda, that is in North Amercia, so all Yanks must be like them Canadians, Well you are ar'nt you, all the same, you all sound the same, drive the same cars, play the same spots, HELL all americans must have orginated from Canada.
Anyways, someone said why do we get all excited and of our trollys from scoring one goal, Well its like Christmas, if you had Christmas every month, you would soon loose the euthisiasium for it, but coming only once a year you get excited as it comes around. So when you score your only goal in 90 miniutes, all that excitmet comes out in one go, and its christmas all over again, now times that by 40,000 surporrters in the ground and that is alot of tostesterrome flowing around.
Ever seen the film Braveheart, well in the last 400 years not much has changed.
The Scots, would rather surpport their worst enermy rather than surpport England, same is said for the Welsh as well.
"We are British, by nation, but English by the grace of God".
fact remains you are all from the British Isles. Sometimes we just have to face facts, like it or not.
oooh, orgoglio Italiano is takin some punizione at the hands of lowly Paraguay...ouch!
A little tenuous methinks. The British Isles describes a land mass that includes Ireland, and the Irish would resent being represented by the England team only slightly less than the Scottish In all other sports (especially tennis), I'd accept your point; when it comes to football, absolutely not.
Has there been a good game yet?
and England = England, not Britain.
Apparently there's something wrong with the balls they're using too.
Well, the pic on the cover of the New York Post suggests otherwise; the US were more than a little excited, anyone would've thought they'd scored on their own merit, rather than by a horrendous England mistake
I'm hoping the standard picks up, so far the quality of the matches has been crap.
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GD may not have realised the historical competitive feelings between the British nations, but his geographical observation is sound. Makes a change from the usual perception of Birmingham being in Birminghamshire and supporting the troops in Iraqistan.A little tenuous methinks. The British Isles describes a land mass that includes Ireland, and the Irish would resent being represented by the England team only slightly less than the Scottish In all other sports (especially tennis), I'd accept your point; when it comes to football, absolutely not.
You have a point Berhard. How can you use the term football when the game is played mainly with the hands? At least the original game involves the feet almost exclusively.The greatest game for me is FOOTBALL. Why by any means somebody started to call it childish "Soccer"? No wonder there is no future for it in the USA. Please stop that rubbish.
There they have a rubgy-like game, where 99% outside the US can't understand the rules - called American-Football. Best is: they even use the hands to play it (lol!!) which is strongly forbidden in real Football of course. Only the Goalkeeper is allowed to use hands - but in American Football they even don't have a goalkeeper and also the Goals are wide open...Also the ball is not round, seems damaged...it's seems, they just don't get it...
Ok, good thing is there are the "Rolling Stones"playing at the half time sometimes - nice.
Bernhard
Yes Mr, Williams, £5.00 sterling will be going to the Marie Curie trust, a service that looks after teminally ill Cancer suffers last days in there own homes. Rasied £445.00 pounds for them recently by swimming 4KM in 1 hour 30Mins.
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I don't want to go too much farther than this.
Nobody targeted Ghana dancing or that of any paticular demographic, nor did I go looking for the single most provocative demographic to target an insult that never existed like you just did. You were wrong to go there.
Come on guys. I'm one of the American guys trying to enjoy. If you're going to make the club an exclusive then maybe the US is right to ignore it.
Nor are all of us commenting on the silly insults of American sports that always accompany this train of thought. Why even address that? I've been hearing it ever since I lived in europe 8 years ago, and it's old nonproductive news based on nuances that neither side remotely understands. All it does is bring out the xenophobic Americans and their silly catch phrases. Then suddenly the dialogue is over.
I'm a proud American, happy to live in Europe, enjoying a nice experience discovering something new. Let me do that without all the side dishes.