Sunday 4 June 2006
"Football, as most of the world insists on calling it...."
"Christianity, with more than 2 billion believers, ranks 2nd among the major religions of the world. Soccer is first. It is not clear how many people attend the church of soccer - or football, as most of the world insists on calling it...." Today's Chicago Tribune has woken up to the fact that on Friday the globe's biggest single sporting event begins, even though a girls high school match actually got more column inches in today's paper.
Whatever American's think, the NBA finals, the Stanley Cup final and Barry Bonds steroid assisted record bore will find very few column inches everywhere else on the planet as it gets ready for the beautiful game.
If anyone Stateside wants to see the TV schedule (credit to ABC and ESPN as every game is being shown live), then click here (scroll to the bottom of article). ¶ 23:56
"Christianity, with more than 2 billion believers, ranks 2nd among the major religions of the world. Soccer is first. It is not clear how many people attend the church of soccer - or football, as most of the world insists on calling it...." Today's Chicago Tribune has woken up to the fact that on Friday the globe's biggest single sporting event begins, even though a girls high school match actually got more column inches in today's paper.Whatever American's think, the NBA finals, the Stanley Cup final and Barry Bonds steroid assisted record bore will find very few column inches everywhere else on the planet as it gets ready for the beautiful game.
If anyone Stateside wants to see the TV schedule (credit to ABC and ESPN as every game is being shown live), then click here (scroll to the bottom of article). ¶ 23:56
