World Football Thread XX: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

[Kitschum]

US

Nice win over Honduras, leading to 6th straight World Cup appearance!

I heard about Charlie Davis. A really sad story.

[snoopy369]

Anyone read the latest Pratchett, Unseen Academicals?

Not a terribly accurate description of football, unfortunately. His crowds aren't nearly violent enough.

[Cort Haus]

I will read it soon. Didn't realise it was about football, but I've long thought it would be a good subject for Discworld. Slightly concerned about the fact that he doesn't like sport, particularly football, I understand.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I heard about Charlie Davis. A really sad story.

Yeah, quite a change of mood in a short amount of time for the US

[Kitschum]

What a great night for football!

@ Barca. Ryazancev es un crack!

[Cort Haus]

So I read Unseen Academicals, and enjoyed it. A decent insight into the historical development of the game, particularly the class-based issues involved.

Two great strong, new characters though, and Nutt is certainly worthy of starring in another novel.

Oh, and Arsenal 3 Spurs 0

[Dauphin]

Good luck Ireland tomorrow!

[Dauphin]

Or Saturday. I thought it was tomorrow, but appears not.

[Cort Haus]

van Persie injured in meaningless International friendly. Possibly out for three months.

International football is nothing but trouble for clubs and should be banned.

[Drake Tungsten]

Henry

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.

[Cort Haus]

The ****storm about that is ridiculous. Ok, Irish fans are understandably pissed-off but the Oirish guvmint getting involved? Talk about distracting people from their own hopeless situation.

[Dauphin]

Tottenham.

[Dauphin]

Not long to the draw now.

Australia to draw South Africa, Algeria and Slovenia would be a good group.

[duke o' york]

England and France should be delighted with that draw.

[Kitschum]

Heh, I didn't even realize at first when I went to Wikipedia to look at the group draws and started thinking to myself, "hmm, it looks like South Africa and Ireland could go through from Group A"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_A

(Fixed now.)