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Ten Reasons To Watch The World Cup

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Ten Reasons To Watch The World Cup
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://nerve.com/content/ten-reasons-to-watch-the-world-cup

From the USA and some is amusing...

Well, we didn't shut England up. We tied England, which America was thrilled about and England absolutely hated (because they invented soccer and then we went and took its name, put it on another sport, tied them at the first sport, and acted super self-satisfied about it). Haters gonna hate, haters gonna call the tying goal "one of the softest goals you'll ever see at this level of football," but if haters want us to stop gloating, haters will just have to WIN THE GAME. OH, BURN!


Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
What the sh*t.
 
That be poor englishand language the hurt me eyes.

Allegedly

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Dude! Hilarious!

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tegal wrote:
What the sh*t.
 
That be poor englishand language the hurt me eyes.


Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
not sure if this quite fits - but I hadnt realised some people are not allowed to watch the World Cup by penalty of death

so maybe the no.1 reason to watch is simply because we can
stealthkiwi2010-06-15 22:23:34
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
not really a joking matter... but she's certainly in good company

pity she's not in London or you cd shout her this
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stealthkiwi wrote:
not sure if this quite fits - but I hadnt realised some people are not allowed to watch the World Cup by penalty of death


 
When I saw that I thought of the global football family doing something like a minute's silence before the remainder of the World Cup matches....  then I thought that may be seen as provocative in some quarters... 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
stealthkiwi wrote:
not sure if this quite fits - but I hadnt realised some people are not allowed to watch the World Cup by penalty of death

so maybe the no.1 reason to watch is simply because we can
 
That's assuming it's true. Rather short on detail, hazy on sources and that quote about "mad men jumping up and down" seems conveniently 'ironic'.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
StopOut wrote:
stealthkiwi wrote:
not sure if this quite fits - but I hadnt realised some people are not allowed to watch the World Cup by penalty of death

so maybe the no.1 reason to watch is simply because we can
 
That's assuming it's true. Rather short on detail, hazy on sources and that quote about "mad men jumping up and down" seems conveniently 'ironic'.
 
yeah I don't think the SMH runs imaginary sensationalist story. they prob picked it up through Reuters. But here's something about the same event in a closer to the action paper http://www.modernghana.com/sports/280606/2/somali-soccer-fans-executed-for-watching-world-cup.html
 
and info about the general dangerousness of watching football from Radio Free Europe
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Great quip...


There are three things that you can bet your paycheck will occur at
every World Cup... a) that Pele's predictions will bomb, b) that players
will whine incessantly about the ball and c) that Maradona and
Beckenbauer will say something that will make everyone else tell them to
STFU.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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