I hate sports!

[elisouli]

Kezmale:
This is due to the fact that the player's have "nastahampaat" (thumbtackteeth? ) which they take off for the duration of the game. Hence, the nice smile of Ville Peltonen

Oh. I didn't know that they have tekarit

[antstar]

But from a personal perspective... threads like "Jumpers for goalposts" might as well be written in Klingon. I just don't get it!

You have to give credit to this thread as its one of the few "long timers" that has not been turned into something else and has stuck to its subject! i think Neil should give a prize to the originator (Magic)... maybe a hair salon voucher

[sammy]

But from a personal perspective... threads like "Jumpers for goalposts" might as well be written in Klingon. I just don't get it!

You have to give credit to this thread as its one of the few "long timers" that has not been turned into something else and has stuck to its subject! i think Neil should give a prize to the originator (Magic)... maybe a hair salon voucher

Very true - apparently football as a subject is not so prone to cause political debates (or to feed an obsession with images of beautiful women )... socca is just socca - perhaps therein lies the beauty of it

[Salopian]

Very true - apparently football as a subject is not so prone to cause political debates (or to feed an obsession with images of beautiful women )... socca is just socca - perhaps therein lies the beauty of it

Yup, football doesn't lead to such debates often, though it very easily could, and sometimes I wish it would more often (but not on FF - the pub is where this should and does take place ). For example, one could easily get wound up by the 'glass ceiling' in the English Premiership, where the rich clubs 'Big Four' are a cut above the rest of the league; globalised ownership of 'traditionally English' clubs ("damned yanks taking over the game") division of labour ("these damned play-acting foreigners ruining the English national team"); Abramovich using Chelsea as a rich man's play thing - all sponsored by resources "belonging to the Russian people"; social concerns about a team moving stadia; media bias etc...

But football fans often just have 'banter' with fans of other teams - joking, making fun, trying to wind each other up, etc. Those in the Jumpers for Goalposts thread know this and no-one reacts overly as they're used to it. The arguments are more on "you were lucky - he was ****ing offside!". It's all good, but we sometimes gloss over or ignore just how rotten the game is (unless perhaps when talking in the pub)

[MagicJ]

i think Neil should give a prize to the originator (Magic)... maybe a hair salon voucher

Great Idea i like prizes! But when you've got a head of hair a la Yul Bryner you don't really have a need for hair vouchers, expired or not.