Reply #11: This ain't nuthin [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

I was in London when England tied Turkey 0-0 in a preliminary qualifying game. You should have seen the newspapers. All of them. Front and back. If Winston Churchill came back to life and brought the Queen the head of Osama bin Laden, he would not get the savage, lavish praise that was heaped on a bunch of soccer players who didn't score a point in the game. They didn't lose, and the newspapers called them OUR BRAVES and HEROES in 80 pt. headlines. The text was absolutely insane. No holds were barred in the way the Turkish team was described. From what I could glean, Turkey had it coming.

English football fandom makes American baseball fandom look quaint. Nice. Cuddly. Apt not to start a riot.