X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4f17,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f17,public X-Google-Thread: fc9f9,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9f9,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fe7ce,1fea113a30411707 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe7ce,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-09 00:55:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!feeder.qis.net!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!mark From: mark@NOHAM.otford.kent.btinternet.co.uk (Mark Kent) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,alt.politics.socialism,alt.seduction.fast,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: drsquare is a useless troll was Re: What does everyone reckon our chances are for the Euro 2004 qualifying? Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <7vI58.26624$jb.1324289@news2.calgary.shaw.ca> <3C5AC13B.9060609@mindspring.NS.com> <0lhl5ugo85pjshh3t861eimu9gq7n7tumk@4ax.com> <3C5ACEF7.1010005@earthlink.NS.net> <3C5D92E7.2070002@mindspring.NS.com> <5ca04a.qjp.ln@192.168.1.1> <3C642763.8050208@mindspring.NS.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.7.74.124 X-Trace: helle.btinternet.com 1013244881 23334 62.7.74.124 (9 Feb 2002 08:54:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:54:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:14518 alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian:36158 alt.politics.socialism:15429 alt.seduction.fast:76311 comp.os.linux.advocacy:190179 Jonathan Ball espoused: >Mark Kent wrote: > >> Dutch espoused: >> >>>"Jonathan Ball" wrote >[...] >>>>You don't know what you're talking about. Any idiot >>>>can run around on a field kicking at something; even >>>>you can probably do it. Let's see you even *stand* on >>>>ice skates, let alone take a shot at the puck without >>>>landing on your fat ass. >>>> >>>Now that we're thoroughly off-topic I might as well say my bit. >>> >>>I've played the major sports at the medium amateur level, men's inter-city >>>basketball in Timmins/Noranda, Junior football (18 years old), and industrial >>>league hockey. I've only kicked a soccer ball around a few times. There's no >>> >> >> These are only major sports in one or two countries. Elsewhere, they're >> minor at best. > >You're an idiot. Ice hockey is played throughout >northern Europe, Canada and the U.S., and many of the >countries of the ex-USSR. > Please don't be abusive. Ice hockey is taken seriously in approx 6 or 7 countries in the world, but let's call it 15 if you want. There is no Northern European country where Ice Hockey gets even a fraction of the following of Football. I currently have an au-pair from Slovakia, a major power in Ice Hockey, with a population of less than 2 million. That should tell you something. I have a boatload of family in Canada, and am aware of the strong following for Ice-Hockey there. Football, however, is played seriously in around 200 countries. Just because Ice Hockey happens to be popular where you are does not make it even vaguely significant in terms of world sport - it's just not on the radar. More countries play Cricket at a high standard than Ice Hockey, for example. -- Mark Kent Take out the ham to mail me.