RE: Previous Worldcups

and anyway, it’s firmly tongue in cheek.

I have no problems with English people… it’s the commentators not shutting up about 1966 that gets me… See my post about things commentators had to say, about two weeks ago…

RE: Previous Worldcups

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-06-02 AT 01:38 PM (GMT)]et puis quoi? si ils veulent se convaincre qu’ils sont si meilleurs que toute la reste du Royaume Uni, ils n’ont q’a se debrouiller quand ils perdent.

or, to put it another way…

If the Ing-ur-lish really want to brag about how great their football team is… they’d better be able to put up with it when it all goes pear shaped.

as the Germans would say (or, if this was the Sun ‘as the conceited krauts would say’) Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude… And if you can’t work out what that means, well…

‘mon the Samba Boys.

RE: US Airways

I flew US Airways from Pittsburgh to San Francisco (on a 757) 5 years ago. However, having previoulsy had a 5 hour wait involving a transfer from LHR to LGW, and a 3 1/2 hour transfer at PIT, I was pretty tired by the time I boarded.

I’d say the service is average for a US airline. $4 (or whatever it is) for renting the headphones, and the usual meal choice on American companies of chicken or that other one that no one ever takes…

RE: Previous Worldcups

Well, the game finished 2-2, there was a shot in extra time that didn’t cross the line, and, in accordance with Law 7.9 (Effect of prematurely ending the game: A game which is terminated prematurely by the referee for any reason, such as a persistent thunderstorm, the field becoming waterlogged by rain, or excessive spectator interference, is considered abandoned), the game was stopped when Kenneth Wolsentholme said “Some people are on the pitch, they think it’s all over” (nb, this is before the “it is now” bit).

So, obviously, the game did finish in abandonment, and not, as some people mistakenly think, in an Ing-ur-lund victory. QED. 😉

RE: bye bye Italy

how about this for pettiness…

Italian club Peruggia have sacked their player, Ahn Jung Hwan, who scored the Golden Goal for Korea against Italy yesterday.

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(from http://www.footballunlimited.co.uk)
Ahn sacked by bitter Perugia

Staff and agencies
Wednesday June 19, 2002

South Korea’s golden goal hero Ahn Jung-hwan has had his contract terminated by Serie A club Perugia after his goal eliminated Italy from the World Cup finals.
Quoted in Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport, Perugia chairman Luciano Gaucci said: “That gentleman will never set foot in Perugia again.”

Italy has reacted with fury to yesterday’s shock 2-1 defeat to South Korea, accusing the referee and football’s ruling body FIFA of fixing the match.

Ahn, who missed a penalty earlier in the match, was hailed as a national hero when he headed home the golden goal winner in the 116th minute.

But his goal was viewed in a different light at Perugia, in central Italy, where he has been viewed as an under-achiever during his stay at the club.

“He was a phenomenon only when he played against Italy. I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him,” Gaucci was quoted as saying.

“I have no intention of paying a salary to someone who has ruined Italian soccer.”

Ahn joined Perugia on loan from the South Korean team Pusan I.cons in the summer of 2000. He scored five goals in 29 appearances.

A Perugia spokesman said today that the club had virtually decided to release Ahn even before the World Cup tie.

RE: Previous Worldcups

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 19-06-02 AT 11:30 AM (GMT)]1998 host France winners France
1994 host USA winners Brazil
1990 host Italy winners West Germany
1986 host Mexico winners Argentina
1982 host Spain winners Italy
1978 host Argentina winners Argentina
1974 host West Germany winners West Germany
1970 host Mexico winners Brazil
1966 host Ing-ur-lund winners (none, match drawn)
1962 host Chile winners Brazil
1958 host Sweden winners Brazil
1954 host Switzerland winners West Germany
1950 host Brazil winners Uruguay

No competition during World War II

1938 host France winners Italy
1934 host Italy winners Italy
1930 host Uruguay winners Uruguay

RE: C-130 crash

for those that haven’t seen it, the story is http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2051000/2051058… and the film is http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/38082000/rm/_38082158_colorado06_pann…

RE: your favourite cities

keltic, Saab dosen’t live in London… he lives on the Channel Islands, which are closer to Normandy than Ing-ur-lund.

Anyway, myself
I’d have to say…

San Francisco
Montreal
Florence
Vienna
Dublin (or, rather, St. James’ Gate…)