BS: Come on you yanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 05:17 PM

I once watched a game of American football on telly. My interpretation of what I saw was thus: two bunches of ludicrously padded men stand around for five minutes. Suddenly, one man throws an oval ball along a line formed by these men. The two groups of men then set about beating each other up for several minutes. After this, the two bunches of men resume their standing around. In the meantime, groups of very attractive young women on the touchline, wearing frilly skirts right up to their delectable bottoms, jump insanely up and down whilst making quite a lot of noise. It's truly a wonderful spectacle.

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 11:16 AM

I'll be hoping Wambach gets a goal in the final... at 37, she's not got many chances left to set her scoring record in stone (if that's possible). The Yanks have an old team, although England is not that much younger. I'll be keeping an eye on the weather.

This eve in Edmonton, mainly sunny and 24C + 57%RH = 28H with 10kph wind. Nice weather for a game.

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 11:07 AM

imagine how you yanks would feel if we slaughtered you lot at american football - that's how gutted i will be. don't mind if japan win it though. my irrational dislike of americans playing football probably comes from their preposterous version of 'rugby between the adverts' - what they call 'football' - whereas they refer to the beautiful game by the ugly term 's$$$er'

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 10:32 AM

I'll be well gutted if it's us you slaughter but over the moon if it's the Japanese you whack. But these are not realistic scenariae of course!

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 09:32 AM

Okay, we came on. What if the US wins the World Cup?

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 09:12 AM

Nah, I think Guest is right, Steve. It's about time we removed all this gamesmanship from sport. I don't think they have gone far enough though. We should probably not have winners or losers either. After all, we need to think of the psychological damage done! Probably best that we remove the goals. Maybe the ball as well. Make sure everyone is happy and comes away with a positive attitude. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 09:07 AM

Nowt wrong with slaughtering or whacking your opponents as long as you stick to the rules and spirit. It isn't religion, you know. It's far more important than that (Bill Shankly said so, and as we know God sits at Shankly' s right hand).   Roar, Lionesses!

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 07:39 AM

'slaughter'? 'whack'? 'roar'? mind your language, men. this is the beautiful game played beautifully we are talking about here - doesn't need these macho style of comments. i have never liked international football as much as the real thing (partick thistle, west ham) - don't know if it's the inevitable disappointment of scotland and england or the bellicose jingoism that so often accompanies it. hope that doesn't get into the women's game as it gains popularity. recent years watching spain or germany have been exceptions to the usually dull international scene and a treat for neutrals. i'm looking forward to seeing japan - hope they win it. we all have our reasons -usually random and irrational - for supporting teams this, i reckon, is one of the charms of football

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 07:01 AM

The German penalty came from a mild foul but it was a goal-scoring opportunity clearly denied and should have been a sending-off. Gawd knows what Sasic was doing missing that penalty. That was the decisive couple of minutes in this game. The US penalty didn't look like one to me as the foul was outside the box. But the yanks definitely edged it overall. I shouldn't have stayed up as I'm brain-dead this morning. I'll be scrubbed and ready to dive into bed as soon as the final whistle goes tonight. Extra time will zombify me. Bloody Canuckistan time zones. Go, Lionesses! Adelante! Excelsior!

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 10:31 PM

The US women did their part.
Remember last year's game against Japan?

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: michaelr
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 09:24 PM

Finally, a confident, consistently well-played game from the US, who have been looking off their form for most of the tournament. A well-deserved win.

The refereeing, though, has been and continues to be spotty throughout. Too many wrong calls.

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 09:03 PM

Thank goodness for the second goal! The first was an obvious fuckup by the ref. Hey, I was watching from a slo-mo camera feed in Moncton, NB.ca and the ref doesn't have that luxury. So, the second goal sealed it, even if the first may have been hard on the spirits of The Germans. Overall, I thought the Yanks out-defended the Germans.

Tomorrow will be a nail biter... I hope. But, I have every confidence in England.

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 08:55 PM

Yay, step one achieved! Roar tomorrow, Lionesses!

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 08:21 PM

Jaysus, that missed penalty was some let-off!

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: michaelr
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 08:05 PM

Halftime. Very exciting game.

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 07:54 PM

It is a great game innit? As far as it sounding like there is a good Yank contingent, I expect there is AND I expect there is a BIG Canuck contingent and they are cheering for the Yanks. We don't like a lot of the Yank foreign policies but we ARE neighbours eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 07:17 PM

Shit. I find myself watching the bloody match even though I'm knackered out of me brain. Yanks just missed a golden chance. Sounds like there's a good yank contingent in the crowd. I haven't seen great open football like this since I watched Bury at Gigg Lane, just up from my house, in the early sixties.

Subject: RE: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 07:10 PM

Yanks and Brits would be great! Wait. Fuck. Who will I cheer? I just wanna watch a good game. As for the time zone, suits me. Your family should have got out to my time zone while the getting was good. Then again, I am of poor Irish forced to come to the fly infested bog country of Kent County, NB.ca by the Brits. Hmmm... GO YANKS! Then again, if it's Brits and Germans, well, kinda the same deal eh? But, if so, I shall cheer the Brits as they are slightly less German.

Subject: BS: Come on you yanks!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 06:53 PM

What we want is yanks v. Brits. All we need is for the yanks to slaughter the Germans tonight and the Lionesses to whack the Japanese tomorrow. What a final that would produce! Pity the soddin' matches don't kick off until midnight UK time. I might just gird my loins and stay up tomorrow, to see our girls, but I can't do two late nights in a row at my age. Bloody silly Canuck time zone!