TheBanyanTree: Some Muvvers really DO have em!!

[Roger Pye]

AFL

roger

Peter Macinnis wrote:
> On 24/05/2010 21:17, Roger Pye wrote:
> 
>> As for McManly - only pity is they don't play REAL football down there!!
> 
> I agree with Nigel Kennedy: if the Deity gave us the power to make a 
> perfectly spherical ball, it would be blasphemous to play with an oval 
> one.  I follow the world game, Roger--is that the one you meant?
> 
> Oddly, I can date myself by recent World Cups.  It wasn't planned, it 
> just happens that I know what I was doing for each of the last four.
> 
> I fell out with my then deputy principal in 1994, when I let the Italian 
> students into my lab to watch the World Cup match that saw the Italians 
> eliminated.  He was what we civilised people call a rugger bugger.
> 
> In 1998, I changed jobs, just as the playing started, so I missed most 
> of the fun.  New jobs are like that.
> 
> In 2002, I was in Worcester Massachusetts during the later stages of 
> play, and having just been in Dublin, I had all the Irish gossip that 
> was required in the pub where I watched Ireland's last game, where the 
> Irish Americans had been sadly deprived of news by Ted Turner and his 
> kind.  I was made welcome.
> 
> In 2006, I was in the Greek islands for most of the World Cup, and saw a 
> couple of games in the Greek evening.  I arrived in London on the 
> afternoon that England was eliminated in a penalty shoot-out (I think it 
> was a quarter-final).  After walking most of the way because the cabs 
> were all off the road, I checked in and headed down to a bar that I wot 
> of in Earl's Court (there is a TARDIS over the road, and a stuffed 
> kangaroo in the bar), and watched with a bunch of lads in bovver boots, 
> two Chinese, some Poles, three Indians and a few other typical Londoners 
> as England got done over, to our great and mutual annoyance.   I was 
> made welcome.
> 
> I'll be back in that bar in a month and a day, with Chris along with me 
> this time, and a week later, we'll be in Italy.  I guess we'll see the 
> odd game on television again.  We'll be welcomed.  The world game is 
> like that, and any two nationals can always find some other nation that 
> they'll agree to jointly hate.
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