Esteemed colleague Cathal Kelly, now headed for a well-deserved weekend away from the home office, sends along a pointer to this story, of a man in China who wasn't going to let his house burning down around him disturb his viewing of Tuesday's Spain-France game:
"When the neighbours shouted 'fire!', I took my little baby and ran out in my nightclothes," the man's wife told the paper.
"My husband paid little attention to the danger, just grabbed the television and put it under his arm.
"After getting out of the house, he then set about finding an electric socket to plug in and continue watching his game."
Just imagine what he might have done if China had actually been in the World Cup.
And as Sporte Noir seems to be the flavour of the day, the Onion has a viscously black piece in the current issue
"Somalia Defeats Rwanda To Win Third-World Cup
...This is a relatively great day for Somalia," said team captain Omar Bin-Shakur, the seasoned veteran whose rise from squalor in the violent ghettoes of Mogadishu to stardom in the squalid and violent ghettoes of the Sudan is already passing into legend."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50032
Posted by: Uhclem | June 29, 2006 at 05:20 PM