masr masr masr!!!!!
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Saturday, February 11 at Saturday, February 11, 2006.
Egypt have won the African cup of nations. Cairo would be the place to be right now, if massive street celebrations of long suffering football fans is your thing. Looking forward to hearing some first hand reports of the celebrations from the many many nomadlifers in Cairo....
Huge street celebration minus alcohol and drunkenness....sounds pretty good to me...
When I first saw the score, 4-2, I thought to myself "wow, high scoring game". My big problem with football is that it is too hard to score, too easy to be defensive, and too often ends up 0-0 after 2 hours play. 6 goals in a match seemed pretty cool to me.....Then I read that it was a penalty shootout that ended up being 4-2 to Egypt - the actual game ended 0-0.
My second big problem with football is penalty shootouts. You might as well toss coins, or have the captains challenge each other at Fifa 2004 on Sony Playstation consoles or something. Pretty random way to end a game....
It still rocks massively that Egypt won. Party hard, everyone there....
Huge street celebration minus alcohol and drunkenness....sounds pretty good to me...
When I first saw the score, 4-2, I thought to myself "wow, high scoring game". My big problem with football is that it is too hard to score, too easy to be defensive, and too often ends up 0-0 after 2 hours play. 6 goals in a match seemed pretty cool to me.....Then I read that it was a penalty shootout that ended up being 4-2 to Egypt - the actual game ended 0-0.
My second big problem with football is penalty shootouts. You might as well toss coins, or have the captains challenge each other at Fifa 2004 on Sony Playstation consoles or something. Pretty random way to end a game....
It still rocks massively that Egypt won. Party hard, everyone there....
Would have to agree about the drawbacks of Football. Therefore - Cricket is the true sport. Play for 9 hours each for 5 days at a go - and.... :-)
Only if Cricket had a penalty shoot-out option.
The whole wonderful glory of cricket is that it can end in a draw. But a draw in cricket is nothing like a draw in football.
The Cricket equivelant of a penalty shootout.....interesting. 5 players from each team have to throw down the stumps from 25 metres at a 45 degree angle?