...no ice - futball ?  Not football, not rugby not Jai alai.  From the pictures old willy deduces you are talking about soccer ( properly called football by the vast majority of the planet ).

I don't follow the sport, but I will cheer for Canada just on principal.

Picture the frozen plains of Saskatchewan ( actually the playground of my elementary school ), late January, young boys in grade five at recess playing soccer outdoors with a softish ( at room temperature - that day it was - 20 C. ) rubber ball.  The ball is kicked, with vigor, to ( at ) a boy whose head is turned.  At the last second he looks and is hit square in the map with a frozen soccer ball.  He and his parka are knocked to the ground, his glasses making marks in his well chilled face.  He lost his joy for the game, went home and proceeded to be beaten by his younger brother at chess.

Ah, the memories of youth.  Did I mention the wind was blowing ? ( that's the reason for the well chilled face )

Here's a golden oldie - Conserve Water / Shower with a friend

by willy be frantic on 06/18/2007 10:29:34 PM EST

I will not 'live blog it'.

I intend to enjoy the game and if you really care, you'll watch it yourself.

by daMule on 06/18/2007 05:11:35 PM EST

Soccer commentators on scoring:

"If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal."

"An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal."

"Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals."

"And we all know that in football if you stand still you go backwards..."

"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday."

"That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have
had no chances and scored twice. and so they have not been able to improve their 100% record.

"And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0."

Well, it's Ipswich nil, Liverpool two, and if that's the way the score stays then you've got to fancy Liverpool to win.' (Peter Jones)

'When one team scores early in the game, it often takes an early lead.' (Pat Marsden)

"And Meade had a hat-trick. He scored two goals.' (Richard Whitmore)

'I am a firm believer that if you score one goal, the other team have to score two to win.' (Howard Wilkinson)

And the ghost of Yogi Berra is everywhere:

'Everything in our favour was against us.' (Danny Blanchflower)

'He had an eternity to play that ball, but he took too long over it.' (Martin Tyler)

"If we played like this every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent."

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."

"What I said to them at half-time would be unprintable on the radio."

"I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way."

From soccerjokes.com.

by Archer on 06/18/2007 10:19:47 PM EST

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Soccer- watch it for the effort, if not the excitement!

by Archer on 06/18/2007 09:22:08 PM EST