June 29, 2006
ISN'T IT A BIGGER DEAL THAT THEY FIXED THEIR CUP MATCHES?:
Italian football trial adjourned (BBC, 6/29/06)
The trial of four leading Italian football clubs on match-fixing charges has been opened and adjourned.Champions Juventus, plus AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio could be relegated from Serie A and forced out of European competition if found guilty.
A six-strong panel of judges convened at the Olympic Stadium to try the clubs, plus 26 senior officials, referees and linesmen.
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Murray stung by English backlash (EBEN HARRELL AND ALAN PATTULLO, 6/29/06, The Scotsman)
ANDY Murray's online blog has been flooded with comments from English fans who say they will no longer cheer the Scot at Wimbledon because he refuses to support England in the World Cup.Murray's blog has received comments from more than 550 fans, all but a handful of whom criticise him for having said he would support Paraguay in England's opening match.
The comments were posted on Tuesday, the evening of Murray's first-round victory at the All-England Club, in which he wore the colours of the saltire and a wristband in the shape of the St Andrew cross.
'Disabled' fans ejected for dancing (Ananova)
Three Argentinian football fans were thrown out of their team's World Cup clash with Holland for pretending to be disabled.The fans bought wheelchairs and then bought special cheap tickets reserved for disabled fans to get into the match.
But their ruse was discovered when one of the trio got carried away by the game and started jumping up and down.
One of the three, who gave his name as only Gustavo, told Folha de SP: "Our friend couldn't stop jumping and a person near us thought there was a miracle happening."
No, it's a miracle when a goal is scored. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 29, 2006 11:13 AM
There are goals in soccer?
If there were Christopher Reeves would get up and walk....
Posted by: oj at June 29, 2006 11:59 AMOh, you Americans and your sissy socialist sports in which every loser can score.
Top Italian teams will be relegated from Serie A and forced out of the Champions League and UEFA Cup, if found quilty of fixing matches, which means that they could lose their top players and millions upon millions of money. Such harsh punishments against cheats could never be meted out in the egalitarian world of American sports.
Posted by: Mörkö at June 29, 2006 1:11 PMExcept that all the games are fixed. That's why it's a sport that only appeals to folks who don't believe in free will or morality.
Posted by: oj at June 29, 2006 1:17 PMAre you speaking of baseball? Sorry, I don't know much about such fringe amateur sports.
Posted by: Mörkö at June 29, 2006 1:20 PMAh, the bitchiness of those who can't throw overhand....
Posted by: oj at June 29, 2006 1:24 PMI throw as well as any Frenchman!
Posted by: Mörkö at June 29, 2006 1:31 PMMörkö, are you really French or do you just throw like one?
Posted by: erp at June 29, 2006 1:44 PM Morko:
THIS qualifies as an argument?
Why would the English expect a Scot to root for them?
Mockery of Scottish football is red meat to the English. A common chant at matches on the increasingly rare occasion when England is dominating its opponent is "Are you Scotland in disguise."
It's doubtful they'd everr root for Scotland, especially if the situation were reversed and England had failed to qualify for the World Cup finals and Scotland were one of the favorites.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at June 29, 2006 3:13 PMYour mother was a hamster, and your father played soccer when he didn't smell of elderberries.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at June 29, 2006 7:58 PM