OMG...I think I have to apologise to Celivia and the other soccerball heads, because, I can't find a You Tube video of the Medicos treating a fake injury....lol

From the deepest recesses of my heart I apologise profusely.

To all those medicos that I put in the same faking section as the Soccer Thesbians... I apologise!

Here is a prediction... Keep watching and I will be proven right...and it may well be the orange stains that prove me right...but until that glorious moment, I remain humbly wrong.

How's that ladies a male who admits one error in his life...lol

Also Celivia I congratulate you on your intellect in at least paying more attention to Aussie Rules football. I think you will be pleasantly surprised once you study it a bit.

OI Severin...I was barracking for St Kilda in that final where they dismally lost to Geelong, crushing their already severely loss weary fans just that little more. Breaking their hearts once again, rubbing salt into their already inflamed, aching wounds.

I remember the Stephen Milne smarty pants kick, running into an open goal, when, it painfully failed to make the distance, and I wince at some of the easy misses your team made.

I remember the tear-filled Rewolt blubbering like a big sook and those famous words "remember this feeling"!

My heart ached for you guys. I was crest fallen, shattered - betrayed.

OK no I didn't have any of those feelings, but I hope you enjoyed thinking that I did...lol

Having barracked for Collingwood and living through their myriad of finals losses I do understood your pain though.

Your loss was my loss on that day....lol

Oh and that's right we aren't supposed to mention the Grand Final...SORRY!

But back to the World Cup...

Fantastic NEWS! The ITALIAN THESBIAN team have been eliminated... Hooray there is a Soccer God. Karma has struck them right where it hurts most...

Now is this Italian football at it's best...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iufnlu5842w

Apparently the whole team faked falling down on the bus and are now claiming fake compensation for their fake accident...lol

Oh and just into this roving correspondences office.

An alleged sneak look behind the scenes of the Italian team training....lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYVT59zYgM&feature=related

Oh and here they scored

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eBWYx0d2ow&feature=related

Anyone would think that scoring was a new part of the game invented by Italy

The Italians are actually good players...just terrible actors...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_U9mSqCe88

A Football (SOCCER)...It's a bewdiful game...lol

Opinionated2

That was then, did you miss last night's game?

Geelong was SOUNDLY defeated, not limply, not luckily but comprehensively beaten by the almighty Saints. BTW I take happiness when and where I can. As an ex-Magpies supporter you should understand that. And you have made a wise decision remaining an ex.

;)

I am glad that Celivia made her Michelin comment, because now we know she has been watching the wrong game(s). I see a convert in the future...

Now, now, benq and Opinionated2 - there's no need to be so mean. I might have to take a textual dive and 'win' a penalty against you...

Fortunately, we have fair-minded correspondents like Celivia and Severin barracking for the retention of fun in sporting entertainment. At least most of us seem to agree that the thugby codes represent the nadir of football (and I'm not going anywhere near that American nonsense).

<< Now, will Cornflower respond with humour or snideness? >>

She'd have to grow a sense of humour in order for that to be a meaningful question ;)

Am away from home for the next week or so, so my participation here will be sporadic.

World Cup? ? ?

What World Cup?

St Kilda beat their nemesis, Geelong - that is world news.

"Oh when the Saints, go marching in,
Oh when the Saints go marching in,
Oh how I want to be with St Kilda.
When the Saints go marching in!"

And repeat ad nauseam.

Sorry CJ,

I hope everyone knows I have been joking on this thread...except for the bits where I am criticising soccer...lol

Even the most ardent, socceraholic, must, look at those You Tube videos that I have posted and shake their heads, in utter disbelief.

Surely, this stuff is so laughable, it is ruining the game these people (the players) supposedly love.

TY for correcting me on the spelling of "correspondents" - I really can spell it's just that sometimes I can't...lol

I think they should have soccer at the Olympics...Oh hang NO they already have a diving competition...lol

Severin,

I didn't watch the game last night as I never want to allow those brutes at St Kilda to crush me again, like they did in last year's grand final. I cheered my little heart out for those football misfits last year...never again...lol

So the Saints beat Geelong in a home and away game...the ultimate consolation prize...lol

Oh when the Saints
Learn to play the game
Oh when the Saints Learn to play our game
Oh I'd love to be in that stadium
Just to see-ee history made

boom-boom

I don't charge much for Anthem writing...lol