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| glencar |
Even tennis players end up with hot chicks. Soccer is just so damned boring. Is that WC thing even on US TV? |
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| Angiegirl |
Holland is playing right now, our streets are empty for sure.
I'm glad I can finally watch a real event, after the boring hours of the padded whimps at the superbowl in feb.  |
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| glencar |
Ah yes, Netherlands vs. Serbia & Montenegro. This is a sort of tune-up, eh? |
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| glencar |
And yes, the Superbowl is usually anti-climatic. |
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| Angiegirl |
What's a tune-up? Holland is leading 1-0, as they should be  |
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| glencar |
I saw that. Congrats! |
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| Some Guy |
I'm just holding out till September, one word- NFL! |
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| Riffhard |
Mexico is kicking some Iranian ass! What a beautiful header! 3-1! Mexico is going nuclear on Iran! Tee hee.
Riffy |
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| nankerphelge |
Too bad the Iranians can't watch it!
Two die as hardline Islamists ban World Cup
Jun 11 12:25 PM US/Eastern
Hardline Islamic courts shut cinema halls and barred residents from watching the World Cup, prompting scores of civilians to protest the ban in which two people were killed, court officials and residents have said.
The gunmen loyal to the Joint Islamic Courts (JIC), cut electricity, cleared cinema halls and warned residents against watching the football tournament in areas they control, forcing a violent protest late on Saturday in which two people were killed, residents said Sunday.
The JIC deputy chairman AbdulKadir Ali Omar said the Islamic tribunals would crackdown on halls that defy the order to show western films and video, including the World Cup.
"This is war against all people who show films that promote pornography, drug dealing and all forms of evil," Omar told AFP.
"We shall not even allow the showing of the World Cup because they corrupt the morals of our children whom we endeavour to teach the Islamic way of life," he added.
Islamic courts officials said they were against some elements of World Cup, notably the advertisements for alcohol.
On Sunday, residents said Islamic gunmen were roaming in Sukahola and Huriwa neighbourhoods in northern Mogadishu to ensure that the ban was enforced.
A strict interpretation of Islamic taechings often bans Western films and television as immoral.
"The Islamic courts have ordered the closure of three cinema halls," said Sukahola resident Abdulaziz Hanad told AFP. "They want to make sure that nobody in Mogadishu watches the World Cup."
"Since the Islamic courts took control of Mogadishu, we knew they would not allow us to watch football," said a dejected Dahir Abubakar Hassan, a resident of northern Mogadishu.
Last year, the courts started to forcefully close cinema halls, arguing that they were showing steamy Bollywood and Hollywood films, which have been translated into the Somali language, to children, which is an apparent violation of the Islamic teachings.
Last Monday, the Islamists defeated the warlords and seized control of most of Mogadishu, sparking fears of a Taliban-like takeover, with the forcible imposition of Sharia law, but the court's leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said he would not impose the laws unless civilians called for them.
Somalia pulled out of international sporting events after the country plunged into anarchy following the violent ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
But residents in other pockets of Mogadishu still under control of the warlords gathered in makeshift cinema halls and watched the tournament that was being relayed from Germany through satellite dishes.
In the remaining warlords' stronghold of Jowhar, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Mogadishu, residents gathered in public cinema halls to watch the 32-nation tournament, an AFP correspondent said.
"If only they can hold the peace for one month and allow us to watch football," Hassan Omar, a teenager in Jowhar told AFP.
In the seat of the impotent and fractured Somali government in Baidoa, about 250 kilometres (155) miles northwest of the capital, residents were not allowed to watch the 10.00 pm (1900 GMT) World Cup match because of a curfew.
Information Minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir said anybody who violates the curfew -- which runs from 9:00 PM (1800 GMT) to 5:00 am (0200 GMT), shall be sentenced to one to three months in jail with a fine of between 1,500,000 Somali shillings (1,080 dollars) and 3,000,000 shillings (2,160 dollars).
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| riffkeither |
hey Starbuck maybe you can change to starf...
hope you dont be still around one of our stadium cause we can show yu how kind of gay we are ...
but the truth is that in Europe , we still have open mind and we don't have any problem with gay that we respect .
Maybe you can began a therapy
just ask to Mick or Keith what they will choose between Superbowl or Worldcup ,it could be an insentive to you |
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| Scot Rocks |
Sometimes a picture paints a thousand words.
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
Angiegirl wrote:
Holland is playing right now, our streets are empty for sure.
I'm glad I can finally watch a real event, after the boring hours of the padded whimps at the superbowl in feb.
But you dig guys who dig the Pittsburgh Steelers, no? |
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| Poplar |
I went to a college with a good soccer team, & those boys got plenty of play for it... and I was lucky enough to date a soccer player for two years... I'm running out of things to say about the sport as far as my life goes.
That said, I'd certainly take a World Cup game over the majority of NBA games that suck ass. MLB is also good in the postseason, and if you're actually at the park. At the moment, the NFL is the best spectator sport on earth.
[Edited by Poplar] |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
Poplar wrote:
I went to a college with a good soccer team, & those boys got plenty of play for it... and I was lucky enough to date a soccer player for two years... I'm running out of things to say about the sport as far as my life goes.
That said, I'd certainly take a World Cup game over the majority of NBA games that suck ass. MLB is also good in the postseason, and if you're actually at the park. At the moment, the NFL is the best spectator sport on earth.
[Edited by Poplar]
Dude, the NBA playoffs have been some of the most exciting basketball in years. |
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| stonedinaustralia |
quote:
lotsajizz wrote:
hurling
makes the rest look foo-fee
true enough jizzy |
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| Poplar |
quote:
Poplar wrote:
the majority of NBA games
agreed, man. good playoff year. |
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| egon |
Come on people, be nice!
All that "Gay this, gay that".
We all have our own preferences when it comes to sport.
Let's respect each other.
baseball, football, american football, basketball;
non of it is gay
What IS gay is this;
There is NO excuse!
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| Altamont |
Howe about bowling? Is this Joey??????
[Edited by Altamont] |
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| texile |
soccer is gay.... |
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| Poplar |
I'm watching teh Italy match (go Ghana!)...
but the ammount of flopping in this sport is ridiculous.
many thespians out there. |
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| egon |
quote:
texile wrote:
soccer is gay....
It sure is... when you're losing.... big time.  |
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| Starbuck |
nah....
soccer is still gay!
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| corgi37 |
Soccer is for thalidemides.
But, hey, Australia fucking won! |
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