One day while walking home from school, a young girl once asked her Dad, "What is football, Daddy? " He said, "It's when 22 men kick a ball around for 90 minutes and the Germans win. "
Heaven vs. Hell Hours after the end of the world, a border dispute emerged between heaven and hell. God invited the devil for conversations to find a way to resolve this dispute quickly. Satan proposed a football game between heaven and earth. God, always fair, told the devil, 'the heat must be affecting your brain, the game would be so one sided, don't you know all the "good" players go to heaven? ' The devil, smiling, responded 'Yeah, but we've got all the World Cup referees.... "
This is straight off of the Spain v Portugal minute by minute report so I take no credit for its creation, but I thought it was funny.
Many of the Portugal team will be a bit too young to remember the famous day in 1139 when their country won independence from Spain, but Bruno Alves has probably told them all about it
Anyone but me noticed that most of the BIG sports in america (Baseball, gridiron) are sports that stop every 10 seconds for about a minute. For exmaple gridiron do a play then spend a minute recovering and coming up with the next play. I think this shows the mental capacity of the american, they need that time to figure out what just happened.
Football on the other hand is to quick and nonstop, therefor they can't keep up
I kinda disagree. I just think Americans prefer sports where the end score is 84 - 72 instead of maybe 1-0 or 2-1. You can't argue that basketball isn't quick and nonstop
I see what the Amadeus is saying though. Maybe Americans just can't appreciate the flow and spontaneity that football is all about. It is a game with rhythm, and people from the states just can't keep up? Whatever that case, the newspaper headline is embarrassing to say the least. All around stupidity, how can you call a game stupid, unless it's croquet or something?
Yesterday at London Zoo one of the staff let a a Central American monkey slip out of his grasp. So Robert Green's not the only English keeper to drop a Howler. What do you call an Englishman in the knockout stages of the World Cup? A referee. Before he got into football, Robert Green was a bus driver. But he got fired because he couldn't make any stops. Why is Robert Green like ITV HD? They both switch off at the crucial moment. When Thierry Henry was asked to explain why France were so poor, he said he simply couldn't handle it. Today: France meet South Africa in Bloemfontein. Wednesday: England meet Slovenia in Port Elizabeth. Thursday: England meet France in the departure lounge. My computer's got the Robert Green virus. It can't save anything.