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gromit

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:28 am

I'm a Man Utd fan, but before you bite my head off, I was born in greater manchester, I chose the team when I was 6 and I lived there until I was 18. I'm sorry but I would say that qualifies me to be a fan.

Shame I hate football fans really Actually hate is an understatement - I can't ****ing stand them. Football fans, or rather premiership football fans have ruined the sport for the rest of us. When I was 12 my dad stopped taking me to games due to the level of violence that had suddenly arisen. I've never been to a match or supported a team properly since.

I'm a wiganer, so of course I support Wigan Rugby...but again not properly. I don't have the money or the inclination to go to "super league" matches. But I still watch it when its on tv.

My favourite sports to watch are athletics, baseball (cos I can have a snooze) and badminton.

Badminton is the only sport I play nowadays. But I play it well.

Indy11

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:18 am

@Grom

Baseball Is it even played in the UK? I know that it's played in the Netherlands but isn't it rather un-British to follow baseball rather than cricket?.... even if you watch to snooze through it.... like cricket is ever so much more gripping on tv....

Edited by - Indy11 on 1/29/2004 8:18:15 AM

gromit

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:40 am

cricket is b*****ks, baseball might be glorified "rounders" but its certainly more interesting than cricket

I watch american baseball on UK's channel 5 - I used to watch it more than I do nowadays - its on at 1am, so it was great when I was working through the night, but nowadays I work more respectable hours so I don't catch it often.

Indy11

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:59 am

Badminton.

I was held up from graduating out of College until I took and passed a badminton class. It was either badminton or tennis. Being a heavy chain smoker at the time, I assumed that I could breathe less heavily playing badminton.

What a mistake that was!

gromit

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:26 am

Too true! I smoke far too much, and when I play badminton nowadays it kills me. But I still love it

Tawakalna

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:31 am

it's completely un-British to prefer baseball to cricket. I thought Grommers lived in Chartham, not Poughkeepsie I'd make it a treasonable offence just to teach him a lesson!

pSYCHO

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:42 am

How can you like baseball?

Cricket came before it and in my opinion is a much better sport. Talking of Britishness, who was it who invented the majority of major sports? (Football, Rugby, Golf, Cricket, Tennis, Badminton etc.... oh yeah and the extremely exciting croquet)

Im sorry but it's definitely the British sports that are the best, just like British comedy, British TV, and Britain in general.

Of course England is better than the rest of britain, but thats another story.....

gromit

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:02 am

I am British, and proud to be so. And it is with my freedom as a Brit that I enjoy my right to stand tall and announce proudly...

"**** OFF CRICKET - YOU'RE ****!"



I'm sorry but it truly is the biggest, steamiest, most boring pile of **** ever invented. It makes me ashamed to be british

Pass the cucumber sandwiches Colonel...

Indy11

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:19 am

Hmmmm. British invented ball sports......

Well, the Mayans, Toltecs, Aztecs and all in Central America played a ball game which in todays terms would be a kind of uhber arena volley-foot-hip-basket ball. And they played with a true rubber ball. That would push "ball play" into the single digit centuries of the first millennium.

I remember seeing medieval portraits of courtly types swatting at a bird with what looks like a squash racquet and equally fancy pantalooned types but that would be double digit centuries.

British ball sports would be "derivative," I think....except for golf. You'd have to be an ancient Pict (probably one on a gigantic uisgeach bender) to think up organized self-torture as a form of amusement.

Edited by - Indy11 on 1/29/2004 10:49:44 AM

Zone

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:04 am

I play Ultimate, now that's an awesome sport

My gap year in Borneo

Recusant

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:35 am

@Zone, I play Ultimate Frisbee from time to time too, it's frikkin' great! I've perpetually got a frisbee sitting in my locker at school, it's actually one of those really fast aerobie things, we play really huge spread out matches just for fun.

I normally play rugby, I used to be heaily involved in Judo and mountain biking, but school has kinda got in the way of that. I don't often watch sport except for Adventure Races, when they're on. Has anyone seen those things? I intend to give one a go as soon as I can happily run far enough.

Tawakalna

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:52 am

I think you must have a rotten time playing cricket at school, that's all. What's wrong with it?

pSYCHO

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:32 pm

yeh Cricket's great

Esquilax

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:52 pm

I agree with FF. Down with the "s" word! You sporting types make me sick!

Griffon_26

Post Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:10 pm

Sports fun...if you have a nice team, n' stuff....

But thats all it is, I wouldn't devote alot of time to it. I rather just excersize by my self. Or do KARATE on peeps.

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