From: chris@lightnin.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
Subject: Re: SON OF CRAP FOOTBALL!
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 15:15:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.132300.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> clg292@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>Hi there Hamish here again,I couldn't resist posting another message after the
>number of flames to my last one.
>Those of you who are telling me to shut up, because no one is interested are
>obviously wrong going by the ammount of response there's been.
>The trouble with this newsgroup and the sport itself, is that it's so
>fucking boring, without an occasional post of this time the readers would
>become comatosed.It seems to me you lack a sense of humour, if you care
>to check out rec.sport.soccer, you will see that humour and sarcasm is
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   Why bring sarcasm to this group?  Who the hell asked you to "brighten"
this group up?  

>a big part of the group, with people constanly slagging each other teams,
>particularly british ones.A lot of the posters talk piss just for the sake of
>it, but that's what makes it's so interesting.
>So a few points to raise on recent flames.
>If footballers are so fit, then how come, they can only last ten minutes before
>coming off and sending another team on, and what about the number of time outs
>you have in the game.Mayby if you only played one team, and had a more flowing
>games, I wouldn't be in a position to slag your sport,as it is sitting down to
>watch a football game, which I have done is like sitting down in front of
>a washing machine for 4 hours.With soccer, you get a fast flowing game, with
>non-stop excitmemt.
>As for saying soccer is more popular over here because we're all wimps is
>nonsense,all our big men play rugby a far more exciting and demanding sport 
>than football.
>Also another point,why in the hell is it called football, as there is no use
>of the foot in the game apart from penalty kicks, surely handball would be
>a more accurate discription, soccer is proper football were skill and dexterity
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>are needed to control a ball with the feet instead of just chucking the ball
>up the park and running with it.
>For all you too stupid to understand the subtle point I made when I said
>footballers were dickless, I'll explain.I was refering to the fact that
>the've taken so much steroids,thier genitalia has shrivelled up and
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  I truly believe that you have seen this first hand.  

>disappeared.
>For eveyone who has picked me up on my previous spelling mistakes, I
>thought I would prove to you that I can spell properlly, if I sit down
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No, you can't.  Your grammar sucks too.

>and look at what I am typing.These mistakes are just due to typing errors.
>
>By the way America has the biggest proportion of iliterate people, in the
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>western world, not to mention the porpotion of fat bastards you have.
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>
>come yee flame
>
>Hamish 

   I hope she keeps posting.  I truly enjoy seeing people making fools of
themselves, and besides, these posts are entertaining. 

   Hamish,  chill out.  Go to your flat, stick a pint in one hand and a fag
in the other and enjoy life!

Have a day.