"Some dejected football fans wearing the blue shirts of 'Les Bleus' sat on the kerbside, many in tears, smoking cigarettes for the most part and looking fairly lonely and isolated."
To the French, it happens every twenty years.
Posted on 07/10/2006 3:39:28 AM PDT by SkyPilot
"Some dejected football fans wearing the blue shirts of 'Les Bleus' sat on the kerbside, many in tears, smoking cigarettes for the most part and looking fairly lonely and isolated."
To the French, it happens every twenty years.
Hi "prophet" muhammad made him do it.
The thug ended his career in disgrace.
I tried to watch also.. my son and one of my daughters plays soccer on travel teams.
Unless you know one of the participants, Soccer is as bad as baseball. The never ending manuevering, the build up then the on going flopping on the ground for position of a penalty kick. My son even said, "what a bunch of pussies." and he's 11.
I think if they stop the game you have to come out for 30 minutes.....which is about the length of 1 play..hahahahahaha.
Make the goal 1 foot taller and 2 feet wider, no offsides and unless there's blood no foul.
"Make the goal 1 foot taller and 2 feet wider, no offsides and unless there's blood no foul."
How about the same for basket ball, raise the hoop to 12 feet and see how many guys can dunk the ball.
Make an "equal opportunity" ruling that every team has to have at least 2 white players on the floor at all times. That would put a few panties in a twist.
Jesse Jackson and Al not so Sharpton would sue and cry "racism". That would be fun to watch.
I've always been baffled by the lady on the left who's cheering the krauts.
You can still smoke cigarettes in Paris?
It's good to know that I'm not the only person who thinks baseball is a big bore.
Soccer (Euro "football") is worse, endless, pointless running back and forth with games sometimes won by one goal for the entire time period.
The Italians should have kicked the crap out of Zidane.
Rather clever on the part of the Italian, considering Algeria's history.
The Italians weren't playing football, they were playing opera. What a bunch of whiney finger pointing wussies!
The Froggies should have won.
Well, the French could always start making baseless accusations about the Italian team taking steroids - that's what they're still doing to Lance Armstrong for keeping them from winning the Tour de France.
Boo Hoo, le-Hoo.
yawn city.
Agreed. The Italians were drama queens. The Frogs should have won - they did play better in the second half too. FIFA needs to rework the rules on this nonsense
They are going to make some excuse, in fact they have probably already stated perpetuating it. I have not read what it is yet.
No way is the greatest sport ever invented "boring"...Baseball is a chessmatch, only with more strategy (whereas football is more like checkers). One mistake by a pitcher can cost a game...i.e. should I throw a curve, slider, fastball, spitfinger, changeup, screwball, palmball...? The batter has to anticipate the pitch (and the last "best one" to do it (Ted Williams) could only do it 40 percent of the time.
Are you kidding? Smoking is the French National Pastime.
INTERESTING!By describing himself as a"Non-Practicing Muslim",does he mean that his skills at Be-Heading,Exploding IED's,delivering Car-Bombs,etc.,have gone a bit RUSTY?
Maybe the French will be saved from the Muslims by ex-patriot American smokers. ;)
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