Posted on 06/09/2006 8:56:48 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
No one realized what had occurred--the police had left so rapidly--but once it became apparent, the supporters started chasing after them. They threw bricks and bottles at their backs. But none of them hit their target. The police were gone; they had retreated; they had disappeared._____A chant broke out--the first that afternoon--and it grew louder as more supporters appeared, entering the square from the various side streets that fed it.
England.There were more people.
England.
England.
England.
England.Now that I could take it in, the crowd was larger than I had expected, not the four thousand who had begun the march, but still one of considerable size--more than a thousand. They were appearing from all directions; they had all taken up this chant. They were celebrating; the national side had won [the skirmish with the police].
England.
England.
England.
I remained leaning against the wall, and remember saying aloud: My, my, my.
Many things fell into place. This chant: it was the only one I had heard in a day otherwise characterized by its enforced, sullen silence. And now: this declaration for England. It was such a simple but enormous thought: these fools, despised at home, ridiculed in the press, incapable of being contained by any act of impulsive legislation that the government had devised, wanted an England to defend. They didn't want Europe; they didn't understand Europe and didn't want to. They wanted a war. They wanted a nation to belong to and to fight for, even if the fight was this absurd piece of street theater with the local Italian police.
Much the same way as Mom and Dad put a plate of spaghetti-o's in fron t of a 3-year old who doesn't like 'em, never has, and never will, but they say "You like SPaghetti-o's. You always liked them. Now eat up!" Sure they can change the channel. They just don;t like being told they enjoy a sport that they don't like.
I hate soccer.
Who the hell is telling you that you enjoy something you don't like? Are you on some sort of medication for that condition?
Then this thread's for you, friend.
For Europeans. And girls.
I refer to to my section concerning the exchange between the Mexican and American.
OMG. You got me on that one. LOL.
for children and foreigners.
And folks who can't bring themselves to cheer for the USA.
S.I., NYT., ESPN., LA Times, Mercury News.... and a few external to the U.S. But hey, I find it as exciting as baseball... (yawn).
Believe me, my first instinct was to post that soccer was gay. But then I saw that you'd beaten me to it, so said "European" which is basically the same thing.
By reporting on it? You are delusional.
the USA has my heart and i wish their soccer team the best, i just don't want to have to watch it. i will cheer them on in absentia. i just thank God my kids play basketball and ice hockey. i may have to put baseball below soccer on the sport scale and i KNOW that makes me anti-American ; )
Everyone is a hero behind a keyboard. Sorry you were cut from the team as kid. Did you try anything that did not require physical ability instead?
You have no sense of humor. Lighten up Francis.
That was the point of my little essay. If you do not wish to watch, that's totally fine. No one is forcing you to do so.
My, you seem awfully tense. Worried for the US team's chances? :-)
They didn't want Europe; they didn't understand Europe and didn't want to. They wanted a war. They wanted a nation to belong to and to fight for, even if the fight was this absurd piece of street theater with the local Italian police.
In other words, they’re retarded.
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