Squish - Of course I don’t think trade sanctions would be imposed. I suppose it’s my fault, the vast majority don’t know my style here. I use exageration a lot as a tool to make a point (my tone of voice usually makes that obvious). That one was a rather large exageration.
All I was trying to say is that perhaps you’d be a little bitter because normally you’re so dominant in the sport and are used to winning - and perhaps more importantly used to seeing others lose horribly.
No way Croatia is taking the USA in basketball.
No way.
If they beat the University of Maryland, though, fans might burn College Park to the ground.
“You could park a car in the shadow of his ass.” ~ Geena Davis, in Thelma and Louise ~
Mayberrydan – OK, I get ya. 
Although there are a heckuva lot of Americans who don’t care about sports, and a heckuva lot who do care, but have a sympathy for the underdog.
Squish - Suppose you’re right
Just go out and get really pissy drunk and beat the shit out some strangers with a gang of your country mates. Isn’t that what Brits do?
Just go out and get really pissy drunk and beat the shit out some strangers with a gang of your country mates. Isn’t that what Brits do?
Charming, Rash, simply charming. :rolleyes:
And this, folks, is being posted by an England supporter.
Lobley, just stop.
And some of the rest of you: please stop channelling Krispy O.
Very valid point there ruadh, we would never hear the end of it if England won.
Jesus, England still mentions 1966 every chance they get, and Lobley accuses the USA of arrogance?
Oh and Road Rash, be a good fellow and fuck off and die.
You know why Americans hate soccer?
In our sports, you get helped off the field when you get injured, because you’re actually hurt. You don’t fake a goddamned injury so you can get someone else off the field. I saw some American dude pull a Shakespeare in that game against Mexico. Fucker oughta have someone throw baseball bats at him until the pansy learns how to throw back. Let’s just make it crystal clear right now: Real Americans don’t fake fucking injuries, unless you’re doing that thing that Ali did against Foreman that time in Africa, which was pretty cool.
Fuck that shit, says this Merkin. Like I’ve said before, it may be revolving billboards to you non-Merkins, but you can’t fake a goddamned Darlington Stripe. Welcome to America. Now stand up and get your ass kicked like a man–or woman, as the case may be.
Now, we’re gonna kick the world’s ass in this pussy sport, just to show that we can. And about the time the cheering stops, in forty-eight hours or so, we’ll forget the whole thing and start paying attention to what’s important, like how Spurrier is going to adjust to coaching in the pros. Because we’re not pussies.
Pussies fake injuries. Countries that love soccer fake injuries. Saddam Hussein pulled a Shakespeare. Sadat and Assad pulled a Shakespeare. The North Koreans pulled a Shakespeare. Arafat pulled a Shakespeare. Osama bin Laden is pulling a Shakespeare. Pussy countries and international terrorists fake injuries like my girlfriends fake orgasms. And they all love soccer. Pussies.
You just know them fucking Commies over there in Russia are pulling a Shakespeare, too. They’re just getting us to drop our guard, and then BOOM, we’ll be playing soccer while wearing Jordache jeans in unheated apartments, faster than shit through a goose. Did you know those commie bastards are still teaching our children how to play this unmasculine sport? Next they’ll be fucking with our water supply.
Show me a country which has a national sport that rewards someone for pretending s/he’s hurt, and I’ll show you a nation that either needs its ass kicked or needs bailing out by the motherfuckers who know how to use their hands–us, as in U.S.
So fuck soccer. And don’t call me an asshole, either. We have nukes, and we’re the only country in the world not afraid to use them. Try faking an injury after I unload ten thousand megatons of whoop-ass on you tap-dancing waifs.
(But go America in the quarter-finals–woooo! We love winners, too.)
Sofa King has been posessed by the love child of Denis Leary and Krispy Original!
TheWrongGirl
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Andres Escopbar was killed during a dispute over a parking space outside a nightclub. He was not shot when he arrived home.
He got involved in an fight outside a club in Medellin with a drunken patron, and was shot.
I repeat, he was not killed because he scored the own goal that knocked Columbia out.
Violet
Bigotry and Religion, more so than football. But I do know what you mean.
Sofa King, I REALLY hope you were being tongue-in-cheek and I’ve been whooshed, because if you were being serious you’ve done little to help the cause of the other Americans in this thread.
And American football is a pussy game. Try rugby or Aussie rules instead.
Tsubaski, Sofa had his tounge so far in his cheek he looked like the Elephant Man.
oh, and Aussie Rules? feh. Gaelic Football is the toughest sport on the block. They kick lumps out of each other for fun 
Twisty, there are indications that Escobar was indeed shot because of the own-goal.
http://www.bootsnall.com/cgi-bin/gt/travelstories/sa/nov00medellin.shtml
There is reason to believe the “parking dispute” story was a cover-up.
This CNN report confirms the gruesome reason for the killing. Not that shooting someone over a parking space is any better, of course, but Escobar was indeed killed for making an own goal.
I have heard that while he was shot for the own goal, it wasn’t down to furious fans, but perpetrated by ‘sicarios’, or slumland assassins hired by drug cartels who were furious after losing out in a World Cup betting scam. The man jailed for the killing was the bodyguard of a drug lord.
Come on Ruadh, don’t turn this into another England-supporters-are-insufferable. I’m tired of these snipes. If you’re going to moan about it, please try to remember just how Ireland would’ve reacted to a victory and the vast support for Ireland in England. This is how it looks to me: We’d be pleased if Ireland won, you’d be resentful if England won.