pozorvlak: (polar bear)
pozorvlak ([personal profile] pozorvlak) wrote2007-11-22 10:00 am
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Now I might get a moment's peace

This morning, I was unable to avoid learning that all four UK teams have failed to qualify for Euro 2008.

How terribly sad.

[identity profile] randomchris.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Fortunately, I managed to stop giving a toss the day before the Scotland-Italy match.

[identity profile] wholepint.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
Look, I don't leave snooty posts about rugby...

[identity profile] pozorvlak.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Rugby's easier to avoid, though.

[identity profile] wholepint.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
No it wasn't! :)
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[personal profile] bob 2007-11-22 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
thing is you wont.
it will now be 6 months of finding replacement coaches and soul searching.
and then when its on they will all be goign onabout how england shoiuld have won it.

Re: TeeHee

[identity profile] pozorvlak.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

[identity profile] picklgrem.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha. Aaaah, that makes me happy.

You do realise though that they're talking about having an internal UK tournament of some description as no one got through.

So sadly the football will not be gone from our lives :(

[identity profile] pozorvlak.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Fecksocks!

There's nothing for it, I'll have to emigrate to Canada. At least hockey talk will be slightly exotic.

[identity profile] metamoof.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You think you have it difficult?

Here, not only do they avidly follow the Moroccan League like it's the only thing worth conversing about, but they also follow the pan-african league, and the Moroccan *sand football* league.

And, what's even worse, everybody here is either a Barcelona or a Real Madrid supporter. To the point where I'm more likely to see a kid wearing Barça or Madrid kit on the street than any other team. Hell, they follow the spanish league more avidly than the spanish themselves, I suspect.

To top it all off, the vast majority of these people follow it whilst teetotal. So they really have *no* excuse.

I've manged to find salons de thé where it's muted and in the backgound on match nights, thank Allah.

[identity profile] r-e-mercia.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha ha ha. If you think hockey talk will be remotely interesting either, think again...

[identity profile] liminereid.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
I love early morning football related schadenfreude. Almost makes up for the English rugby team's freakish regain of form during the RWC