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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on June 01, 2011, 01:34:41 PM

Title: FIFA
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 01, 2011, 01:34:41 PM: It's all getting embarrassing now. I'd like to see a break-away organisation formed, or at least I think England should follow Scotland's lead and never play in the World Cup again.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Bilthehut on June 01, 2011, 01:44:17 PM: We invented the game, so why not reinvent Football but allow tackling and picking up the ball, giving more points for a goal, etc. Then we could export it to other like-minded countries.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Max on June 01, 2011, 04:27:48 PM: We could even use an ovoid ball and change the name to rugby. ;D
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 01, 2011, 06:07:35 PM: Or Bugry
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Fyodor on June 01, 2011, 06:38:45 PM: Or suck our thumbs.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 01, 2011, 11:50:00 PM: Quote from: The Peepmaster on June 01, 2011, 01:34:41 PM
I think England should follow Scotland's lead and never play in the World Cup again.

This idea has obviously tickled you, Peepsie, since that's at least two forums you've brought it up in so far. To be fair, I think England kicked off their own World Cup boycotting campaign very effectively in South Africa last summer.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 02, 2011, 12:10:32 AM: I spotted it as someone's comment on the BBC story, and, yes it did tickle me. Definitely deserving of a wider audience I felt. Did you not see my mention on Facebook too? I missed a trick not tweeting it though...
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 02, 2011, 12:21:19 AM: To be fair, Peepsie, I first heard the remark from a Glaswegian who'd phoned into Talksport's late night show several days ago, and laughed like a hollow drain. The best jokes against Scotland come from wur ain.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Malc on June 02, 2011, 12:23:11 PM: There was a time, not TOO long ago, when Scotland had actually qualified for more World Cups than England. Happy days...
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Bilthehut on June 02, 2011, 01:28:52 PM: Pity about not having won it though.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on June 02, 2011, 02:06:28 PM: Did England? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_linesman)
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Bilthehut on June 03, 2011, 12:00:56 AM: Apparently, according to FIFA.

But who cares, it's just a game.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: The Peepmaster on June 03, 2011, 10:55:09 AM: Yeah - I just double-checked. It was 4-2 in England's favour. 8)
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Diamond Lil on June 03, 2011, 07:29:28 PM: When on earth was that?
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Fyodor on June 04, 2011, 11:29:44 AM: 1966 Lil, old girl.
Just the other day, your brother and I were reminiscing about England's glorious triumph and he advised me that the year 1966, which is of course indelibly imprinted on the brains of all Scotsmen, has an everyday non emetic use:
19 degrees Centigrade = 66 degrees Fahrenheit.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Malc on June 04, 2011, 01:26:33 PM: I believe the first international game England played after winning the 1966 World Cup was against Scotland, who beat England. Scotland so dominated the game that Jim Baxter at one stage took the ball to the corner flag and played keepie-uppy.
Title: Re: FIFA
Post by: Roger Kettle on June 04, 2011, 06:26:32 PM: It was in 1967 and I was there---my first trip to Wembley and as good as it was ever going to get.