Angry Yanks

Yebbut, can you blame them? I mean, soccer _is_ just a silly game,
after all.

I loved one Simpsons episode repeated recently, which shows a soccer
match starting - the crowd are going wild, a-hooping and a-hollering,
beer is being dispensed and consumed in vast quantity and a good time
is being had by all.

Then the game starts, and we see static figures passing the ball
between them. The crowd becomes strangely subdued and the english
commentary is "and x passes to y... y passes to z... z passes back to
y", etc.. Meanwhile, the hispanic commentator is going wild, with 200
words a minute coming out. On the pitch the players have moved a foot
or two from there starting positions and are still passing the ball
between themselves.

After two minutes everyone walks out and goes home. Quite right, says
I.

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Oh we get it, we just don't like it or want it... or bother with it at
all after youth league!

Which is, of course, as it should be. Much to your obvious chagrin!

 

Knowing some 'merkin football players, I would hazard a guess the USA
will eventually turn out a fucking good RFC side. Cunts are bigger than
the sodding Maoris.

 

Hog wrote

Yebbut Maoris can run for the full 80 minutes and don't rotate players
from a pool of 70 during the game. Mind you i think a lot of that is
because merkins break easily. Probably something in their food or
whatever but they don't seem to last very long when stressed.

 

You be forgettin' all dem Big Niggas m'boy. Run for fookin miles they do
<glances over shoulder> An' dem Latinos, wave a green card over the
horizon and watch those wetbacks run and run and run

 

Hog wrote

Who will be in for a very big surprise when they come face to face with
one of our hookers.

 

You mean the USA will enter a team AGAIN in the RWC ( they have played
in three of the four.)

IMO for non semi-professional players unlike say the All Blacks they do
pretty well considering they only play together for the world cup and
any qualifiers they have play.

And as they have only had a national team since 1976 they some catching
up to do.

IMO one thing the USA could do to raise its image overseas is get the
'eagles' to tour and play more.

It would be a welcome respite to news of who /what / how many things
the US military blew up.

Now who the **** do I need to talk to you to get the US to field a
national cricket team.

USA v Pakistan at Gaddafi stadium Lahore would be a riot in more ways
than one.

 

durkster wrote

Ain't dat de truff.

Shouldn't be hard, you seem to have grasped the concept of throwing
rocks and brandishing clubs. Which, when you think about it, is not
really any different to the talents possessed by Yorkshiremen. Granted,
concentrating for more than 10 minutes might be an issue for most of you
but that aside I am sure we would be only to happy to teach you how to
play.

lol

 

Too used to playing with padding, though. I've no doubt there will be
some good rugby players to emerge from the States, but it will take time
to raise a generation of youngsters who are able to accept they're going
to get hurt properly.

 

Can you imagine the insurance premiums required to indemnify overseas
players against injuring an American player?

"Hmmm, well I was going to get $20 million a year for 10 years, but now I've
stubbed my toe. This has robbed me of my self-confidence, made me impotent
and unable to leave my house. $500 million please your honour"

 

And yet here I am now, in my dotage, planning to retire to Cuba so that
I can receive some of that great, high quality, FREE, state-supplied,
health care.

You don't suppose they'll mind if I do that as an illegal immigrant, do
you?

 

Don't be so sure of that. Most of those kids are already involved in X
games and sports.

 

Reminds me of a Derek and Clive sketch:

C: "The Russian health service is fucking fantastic you know."
D: "Yeah?"
C: "Oh yeah. Soon as you're ill, they kill you. There's none of this fucking
about with cures."

 

A bit academic now anyway, since they weren't good enough to get through
the first round

 

err, is that a whoosh?



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Ah! This is where the septic muricans are aspoda get all defensive and
hurt and stand up for their national hono(u)r, and all.

Except, you forget.

We don't give a flying **** about soccer. Never have. Never will.
We. Just. Don't. Care.

 

Maybe America isn't so bad after all.

 

Unless its the women's team and they take their shirts off....

 

And was that on the field, in the stands or both ? Might be nice
if you at least let the fans wear some sort of protective padding.
It'd also improve the game if you gave some sort of cards for
really bad acting.

I played midfield through high school and tried a season or so of
indoor a few years back. Found a few decades of smoking had
taken a toll though and haven't played for a while.

 

Which means that some charmer reported it to them.