X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4f17,15af5515548b5f51 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f17,public X-Google-Thread: fc9f9,15af5515548b5f51 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9f9,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,15af5515548b5f51 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,15af5515548b5f51 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: fe7ce,15af5515548b5f51 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe7ce,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-30 10:01:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!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: What does everyone reckon our chances are for the Euro 2004 qualifying? Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <3c55c27f$0$251$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3c55c608$0$4617$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <3c56e685$0$206$626a54ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: host62-7-21-138.btinternet.com X-Trace: paris.btinternet.com 1012413639 23837 62.7.21.138 (30 Jan 2002 18:00:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:00:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:14273 alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian:35425 alt.politics.socialism:15037 alt.seduction.fast:74647 comp.os.linux.advocacy:183971 drsquare espoused: >On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:19:36 +0100, in alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, > ("Mirak" ) wrote: > >>All taht you say is that france is lucky because they are the first team to >>win a world cup and a euro in a row ? >>AHAHAHAHAHAH > >I would put luck down as a large contributer. > >>Is it luck to lose only 3-2 against holland with bench players ? > >That doesn't make any sense at all. > >>France was lucky to be in final of the olympic games in basket ball, this is >>true, but not in football. > >Oh come on, they hardly had the most difficult path to the finals. Two >golden goals? Penalties? > France won the world cup and european cup because they had the best team. Simple. What wouldn't any team pay for someone like Zidane (sp?)? Still, I have high hopes for England in Japan/Korea and next European cup - I think we have our best team for years at the moment. -- Mark Kent Take out the ham to mail me.