Since our caring admin put up a sports page, I'm going to get to this sports and politics connection. I'll start with football (or for the purposes of this, I'll just say soccer since the majority of our AWE-ers are American). So soccer it is. I don't know if anyone here has read this book here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...080065?ie=UTF8 but it poses some really odd connections. I'll wait for feedback on this and get to it more, but I've gotta fly! Work is over for the day!

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
---Charles de Gaulle---

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."
---Albert Einstein---

A village in Texas has lost it's idiot.

http://www.greenpeace.org/

[quote=TRT14;12120]Do international sports govern particular aspects of foreign relations? For example: do you see the Olympics or the World Cup as a blessing or curse for your country's diplomatic style? If you agree or disagree, why?

P.S. Forza Azzurri![/QUOTE]

Is that Italian for elbow and flop. Italy did not earn that cup!

Out of all the acting teams I must say they acted the best. That was a penalty against Australia though, irrelevent that he did dive, it was the second minor offence to the same player in the same play and it was our bad luck coming to haunt us.

The theory that baseball is played by uncoordinated people who need to wear a glove so they can catch a ball and swing a lump of wood like they were trying to lop a tree down, cannot compare with the art and skill and charisma that is cricket.

Champions del elbow and flopping! So if America won you would be so supportive?

The jury is still out on that one Bloke, but I have watched little to no Cricket so I cannot say for sure.

Hey now...

Eh, you're just pissed we won.

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
---Charles de Gaulle---

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."
---Albert Einstein---

A village in Texas has lost it's idiot.

http://www.greenpeace.org/

TRT14, I was pissed you won but only because we had all the time in the world to win it and we didn't. I play the game and as a defender I would admit it was a penalty. My sister is in Parma right now are you at the USAAF base there.

Air force base? Me? A member? Nope.

__________________
"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
---Charles de Gaulle---

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."
---Albert Einstein---

A village in Texas has lost it's idiot.

http://www.greenpeace.org/