World Football Thread XIII - to Berlin

[MikeH]

The chinese had sports involving kicking things about but we invented the modern game.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Chinese? That must explain why they have such a soccer tradition .

And of course we've accepted the language from the English, we've just improved is all, like the Brazilians accepted soccer from the English and improved it .

[MikeH]

IMPROVED?!

Have a nice day.

[reds4ever]

"Soccer" is not acceptable even in he UK anymore because the word has been hijacked by the Yanks. It marks you down as a "casual" fan.

[alva]

Improving your game over the English...not really the hardest in the world, eh.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by alva
First of all, it was the Chinese who invented football

Anyone can kick a ball around - but coming up with a set of rules that becomes the global game is something else. I haven't noticed 'Chinese Rules' being played too widely.

Of course, if anyone can link to the relevant appendix of Sun Tzu's Art of War where he explains the offside rule and specifies the dimensions of the playing area, I'll happily retract.

[Thedrin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui And of course we've accepted the language from the English, we've just improved is all, like the Brazilians accepted soccer from the English and improved it .

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by alva
If you are, then you better start using a lot more u's in every other word.

"souccer"

[alva]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Anyone can kick a ball around -*snip *

Maybe you guys should stop inventing games and practise more in the ones you compete.

Ohh, but I forgot, you still pwnz at tennis.
(where you all suddenly are British instead of English, I've noted)


And dammit, I'm on your side!

[alva]

Originally posted by Spiffor

"souccer"

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Chinese? That must explain why they have such a soccer tradition .

And of course we've accepted the language from the English, we've just improved is all, like the Brazilians accepted soccer from the English and improved it .

[Cleese]
Improved?
[/Cleese]

I was about to say that you've misspelt 'misspelt', but there's also some eye-popping grammar going on there too. "We've just improved is all" - is that American for "We've just improved it, that's all"? As they say on the internet - WTF?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by MikeH
IMPROVED?!

Have a nice day.

Yeah, we found you used too many unneccesary "u"s, so we packaged them up and sent them to the hacker community to use in place of real words.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by alva
Maybe you guys should stop inventing games and practise more in the ones you compete.

We stopped inventing them years ago, as the set of gifts to the world was complete. Unfortunately we stopped practising at the same time.

Ohh, but I forgot, you still pwnz at tennis.
(where you all suddenly are British instead of English, I've noted)

We cheer and admire Murray when he plays well, roll our eyes when he collapses into a puking heap in the corner of the court, and when he finally bottles it and loses we glance at his "Scortland" wristband and say "ah, sod the spotty Scotch sulker, he hates us all anyway".

Potentially great player, though.

[reds4ever]

Tennis is a girls came, I don't care if a Brit never wins a major.....

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Tennis is a girls came, I don't care if a Brit never wins a major.....

I have to start watching more tennis then!