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Originally Posted by Prussian Iron:
meh. i never liked soccer. maybe it was the fact that i was forced to play when i was 7(8?) or, maybe that i just dont like a sport that you only use your feet in. anyway, whatever.
In soccer(football) you can use you entire body with, of course, the exception of your arms.meh. i never liked soccer. maybe it was the fact that i was forced to play when i was 7(8?) or, maybe that i just dont like a sport that you only use your feet in. anyway, whatever.
Originally Posted by pevergreen:
Yeah PI, because a sport that you only use your feet in and focuses on a ball is not football.
You need a simple way to say the difference.
Here, football could mean a number of things, so we keep it simple
Union: Rugby Union
League: Rugby League
AFL: Aussie Rules
Grid Iron: American Football (aka: pansies
)
Gaelic Football: obvious
Football: soccer
this, of course, depends on the circle of people, if you only talk about league, then that will be football. But in a big group...
They are all called football because they are played on foot with a ball.Yeah PI, because a sport that you only use your feet in and focuses on a ball is not football.
You need a simple way to say the difference.
Here, football could mean a number of things, so we keep it simple
Union: Rugby Union
League: Rugby League
AFL: Aussie Rules
Grid Iron: American Football (aka: pansies
)Gaelic Football: obvious
Football: soccer
this, of course, depends on the circle of people, if you only talk about league, then that will be football. But in a big group...
Originally Posted by Andres:
Belgium didn't even qualify, again...
Mexico '86, will those days ever come back?
You and me both, brother. Wales once again didn't qualify. We haven't been in 51 years! Belgium didn't even qualify, again...
Mexico '86, will those days ever come back?
We had a halfway decent shot this year, just blew it, unfortunately. Oh well, there's always 2013
Originally Posted by Snite:
Oh of course, American Football has the pansies. It makes sense that AF players who get too injured to keep playing and so switch to rugby where they can play are the pansies. Or when rugby players who've also played AF confess that rugby is the easier and less-dangerous sport then of course AF players are pansies. And of course it makes sense that none of the rugby players I've known were ever willing to pad up and go head-to-head with an AF player that the AF player was the pansy. It all makes sense.
Don't project your guilt onto us. You made an easier going sport cuz you couldn't handle American Football, the truth is obvious.
USA! USA!
meh, i assume that rugby players having a tough time with american football is mostly due to the 300 pound linebackers and otherwise up-scaling of everyones size. i know that rugby is a much rougher sport, but i dont think that the players are as enormous as ours (of course this is from an extremely limited knowledge. i'd like to watch a rugby game if anyone has a video of it)Oh of course, American Football has the pansies. It makes sense that AF players who get too injured to keep playing and so switch to rugby where they can play are the pansies. Or when rugby players who've also played AF confess that rugby is the easier and less-dangerous sport then of course AF players are pansies. And of course it makes sense that none of the rugby players I've known were ever willing to pad up and go head-to-head with an AF player that the AF player was the pansy. It all makes sense.
Don't project your guilt onto us. You made an easier going sport cuz you couldn't handle American Football, the truth is obvious.
USA! USA!
Originally Posted by Husar:
I was just kidding, insinuating to have changed my (tapical european, as in bad) opinion about football to the better, then disclosing that my new opinion was bad as well. But it was all a joke and it's even worse a joke than it already was to begin with now that I explained it.
Nah, I got it, I just tried to make another joke, but it has to be spoken, not written. Bah.I was just kidding, insinuating to have changed my (tapical european, as in bad) opinion about football to the better, then disclosing that my new opinion was bad as well. But it was all a joke and it's even worse a joke than it already was to begin with now that I explained it.
I got to give it the Rugby Players. If you count the per man average of missing teeth, I'm sure Rugby players got the advantage. And as we all know, it takes a real man to play a sport that he knows he's going to walk out a hell of a lot uglier, than how he walked in.
Originally Posted by Wakizashi:
it takes a real man to play a sport that he knows he's going to walk out a hell of a lot uglier, than how he walked in.
eeeehh.........the fame fortune and women make up for it.it takes a real man to play a sport that he knows he's going to walk out a hell of a lot uglier, than how he walked in.
Originally Posted by Owen Glyndwr:
You and me both, brother. Wales once again didn't qualify. We haven't been in 51 years!
We had a halfway decent shot this year, just blew it, unfortunately. Oh well, there's always 2013
Most of your better players are between the ages of 18-24 (Ramsey, Collison, Ledley, Bale, Hennessey) so you'll certainly be up for the next one, good draw permitting.You and me both, brother. Wales once again didn't qualify. We haven't been in 51 years!
We had a halfway decent shot this year, just blew it, unfortunately. Oh well, there's always 2013
Football is retard, and so is soccer.
Here, everybody's happy. And all countries keep up at the Olympics only do so because they have black men to do the job for them. Most american athletes are black, most french athletes are black, most arab athletes are black too. Who cares? Olympics are a freaking joke anyway, as any kind of professional sport is.
Except Rugby.
Here, everybody's happy. And all countries keep up at the Olympics only do so because they have black men to do the job for them. Most american athletes are black, most french athletes are black, most arab athletes are black too. Who cares? Olympics are a freaking joke anyway, as any kind of professional sport is.
Except Rugby.
Look soccer is a very beautiful game and worth looking at for sure but Australia is 10 times more likely to beat England than the Yanks* are. Not because we're better than the Yanks, but because of our "special relationship".
OK it may have slipped recently with the abysmal ashes losses (2-3 or 1-2 is far more embarrassing for us than 5-0 is for them) and there was some World Cup Rugby hiccup a few years ago but it was just that, a hiccup.
There's something that happens to a Pom when he meets an Aussie on the pitch: his balls shrink and he loses the will to live. If we were ever lucky enough to fake it through to the last couple of rounds and meet the Poms this time then every man jack of them would be sweating bullets.
Warnie and McGrath could be specialist sledging** coaches.
We haven't been around too long and we haven't won many wars (we generally come along for our allies sakes and cop a beating) so we make up for it with weiner-strengthening sports wins. In real sports like hockey and swimming.
* All citizens of the USA are Yanks to us, even the Texans because the Yankees won the war.
**Sledging is seriously unsportsmanlike personal abuse that the rather bitchy and meanspirited Aussie cricket team is infamous for. Bunch of thinskinned prima donnas, all they are good for is beating the Poms.
OK it may have slipped recently with the abysmal ashes losses (2-3 or 1-2 is far more embarrassing for us than 5-0 is for them) and there was some World Cup Rugby hiccup a few years ago but it was just that, a hiccup.
There's something that happens to a Pom when he meets an Aussie on the pitch: his balls shrink and he loses the will to live. If we were ever lucky enough to fake it through to the last couple of rounds and meet the Poms this time then every man jack of them would be sweating bullets.
Warnie and McGrath could be specialist sledging** coaches.
Originally Posted by The Stranger:
how the hell did australia get so many medals? that cant be right surely...
hehehe Academy of Sport (professional amateurs), and our guys (prolly) use as many drugs as the Americans too!how the hell did australia get so many medals? that cant be right surely...
We haven't been around too long and we haven't won many wars (we generally come along for our allies sakes and cop a beating) so we make up for it with weiner-strengthening sports wins. In real sports like hockey and swimming.
* All citizens of the USA are Yanks to us, even the Texans because the Yankees won the war.
**Sledging is seriously unsportsmanlike personal abuse that the rather bitchy and meanspirited Aussie cricket team is infamous for. Bunch of thinskinned prima donnas, all they are good for is beating the Poms.
Originally Posted by Cyclops:
We haven't been around too long and we haven't won many wars (we generally come along for our allies sakes and cop a beating) so we make up for it with weiner-strengthening sports wins. In real sports like hockey and swimming.
I've never seen you post before, but you're poised to take over from STFS in awesomeness.We haven't been around too long and we haven't won many wars (we generally come along for our allies sakes and cop a beating) so we make up for it with weiner-strengthening sports wins. In real sports like hockey and swimming.
Its the Melbournian in him we are the tougher breed of Australians.
That's one of my favourite movie scenes of all times.
TBH, first time I saw it, just then.
Originally Posted by pevergreen:
TBH, first time I saw it, just then.
2edTBH, first time I saw it, just then.
So how bout' them Canadians.
Originally Posted by RoadKill:
So how bout' them Canadians.
Alas! The Canadians are missing out on the party! Already these are the Anglosaxon games: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, England, America. Only the last two are World Cup regulars. So how bout' them Canadians.
But no Canadians. They lost out to global football power Honduras. No Irish either - but they got further than usual, I must hand that to them.
We play hockey and mingle with the Reds.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat:
...But no Canadians...
They save their finest manflesh for an indigenous sport no other civilised country plays, just like us. I have no doubt if they tried they would have a fine soccer team, seeing as they are the second bravest of all commonwealth countries....But no Canadians...
I think they have a mozz on the Yanks like we do on the Poms, no doubt a lowly ranked Canadian team would wallop team USA off the park if they snuck through.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat:
No Irish either - but they got further than usual, I must hand that to them.
No Irish either - but they got further than usual, I must hand that to them.
Good stuff. Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiiKwNOIZT4
CR
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit:
CR
It was just an off-hand remark...CR
Now you've put your foot in it!
Nah, Louis was always an even-handed guy.
Originally Posted by Sarmatian:
Nah, Louis was always an even-handed guy.
I know you're up to something but I can't put my finger on it...Nah, Louis was always an even-handed guy.
Stop taking the mick out of the Irish, it's getting out of hand.
Originally Posted by johnhughthom:
Stop taking the mick out of the Irish, it's getting out of hand.
I can't for the Liffey me work out what you mean. I used to be an Irish banker, and I was good at it because my capital was always Dublin, but I watched South Park and I saw them Kilkenny, (you b******s!) which was Offaly upsetting, to be Suir.Stop taking the mick out of the Irish, it's getting out of hand.
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