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May-15-2006 01:17

Slice me open with a swift series of paper cuts to the midsection if I'm wrong about this but I do believe the Champions Leauge final is coming up.

I have a bit of a soft spot for Arsenal...love to see them win it. But *weeps like a schoolgirl who has lost her pencilcase* if I had money on it, it'd be on Barca. I'm having major loyalty issues though, as Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho are probably my two fave players.

(compassion please...remember, I live in Canada. Whatch'all think?

May-15-2006 07:06

And now we're at it.... any predictions who will win the World Cup?

Since Belgium is not in it I decided to support Argentina, because I think the have the coolest outfit :)

May-16-2006 02:02

Well since i'm a 'romantic' [delusional ... take your pick] Australia of course!!

May-16-2006 12:42

Hope your soccer team is as great as your rugby team :)

May-16-2006 13:48

*coughs* Great?

So, what about the last Rugby World Cup eh?

Australian Reporter: So, what about the English Team?

Australia Kid crica 8 years old and with scorn: "You mean Johnny Wilkinson?"

Oh, time for a joke: What's the difference between an arsonist and the All Blacks?

An aronist wouldn't waste 9 matches!

May-17-2006 00:27

Tee hee on the joke.

Ugh. I sooooo don't understand what is going on when I watch rugby! And don't even get me started on cricket...what the christ is an "over"??? Why is the score 341 to 6??? What just happened?

At least Aus has a team...I'm convinced the canadian team won't figure in the world cup until they stop trying to play the game in hockey skates.

For the world cup: hard to not pick brazil as the logical favourite, but I'd really love to see a tiny team like Togo or Trinidad and Tobago do as well as the quarter finals. For tomorrow, I've started to believe Arsenal might just pull it out. Pujol can't guard Henry in his hometown...

Last year's was probably the only match I've ever seen where I actually thought it deserved to be settled on penalties. God, that was amazing! Mind you I live in an area called "little italy" so...yeah you get the picture...

May-17-2006 07:36

There a 6 balls to an over at which time you can (depending on circumstances) or have to change bowlers. In a One Day Match there are 50 Overs for each time. (Therefore each time gets 50 X 6 balls bowled to them ;) )

A wicket: this means you lose a player...

S/he could be bowled out (ie the ball hits the three sticks (also called wickets) and/or the stumps (the little piece of wood that goes over the three sticks also known as wickets).

The player could be bowled and caught- s/he hits the ball and someone catches it. They could even go out for various other silly things like L.B.W. This stands for Leg before wicket and can be particularly ccontroversial.

Runs: The aim is to hit the ball as far as you can and gain "runs" (this is the score) by running to the other end of the pitch as many times as you can.

Pitch: This is where the batsmen stand. The pitch is a piece of flat, grassless ground. There are wickets at each end and one batsman stands at each wicket.

NOW.: 341 means the team got 341 runs but lost 6 wickets (ie lost 6 people).
There are 11 eleven players in the team but you only need to get 10 players out.

May-17-2006 07:38


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

This has pictures!

May-18-2006 00:56

Thanks for trying LED...I'm still as confused as a toad at a frog party.

(no, I don't really know what that means but it felt right)

So, it's all in the books now. Ridiculous sending-off in the first twenty minutes. First time a straight red has ever been awarded in a champions league final. Barca wins 2-1.

Good game though, excluding the last 15 minutes.

May-18-2006 09:35

Still ashame we had no penalty kicks...

Then again Arsenal without Lehmann wouldn't have stand much of a chance :)

May-18-2006 10:28

You forgot about run outs LED. I'll not explain it as it's the most complicated form of wicket and has a few variants.

Sounds like Arsenal should have won though. They had more shots on target than Barcelona (despite being down to 10 men), and it sounded like Barcelona got lucky in the last 15 minutes.