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Posted by Kate Dicey on July 9, 2006, 5:08 pm
James wanted France to win, but Italy was better on the night. And
certainly better behaved!
I was doing some hand stitching in the background...
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Posted by small change on July 9, 2006, 5:40 pm
> James wanted France to win, but Italy was better on the night. And
> certainly better behaved!
>
No kidding.
If you gals weren't watching at least SOME of the WC, here's a great article
about what you were missing...
Jaimee Rose
Arizona Republic
June 27, 2006
So, the United States is out of the World Cup. Boohoo. Now, let's go to
espn.com and find pictures of David Beckham whipping off his shirt.
All week, many American women have been playing wink-wink with the World
Cup, coyly pretending to be caught up in the global celebration of
international sport. Sure, Honey, you can watch the game. Let me sit next to
you and we'll watch together. Let me hold your beer. Let me rub your feet.
All along, this passion has been about something else entirely: watching the
international festival of six-packs and reveling in soccer-player lust.
The Americans were just a distraction. It's as if the gods of the universe
rounded up all the pretty men on the planet, plunked them in Germany and put
them in shorts. Why don't we live in Ghana? Croatia? Serbia and Montenegro?
And oh, Lordy, have you seen the Italians?
All these brawny boys on the screen, chiseled and muscled and universally
bronzed - it's like the Mr. Universe pageant, with sweat and no words. What
more can you ask for from your TV?
There's even all that heated shirt removal, which seems to be what
footballers do to cool off instead of pouring water over their heads. For
this alone, soccer is the best sport of all time. Just try to find a photo
of Argentina's Javier Saviola where he's not running about, indulging his
habit of yanking up his shirt every time he gets mad-happy-overheated, and
in turn giving the world a glimpse of some serious abdominal achievement. At
a bridal shower in between bites of dainty white-frosted cupcakes, Beth
Scheall of Chandler, Ariz., and a gaggle of girls skipped the dress chatter
and got down to the nitty-gritties: discussing the varied loveliness of the
Mexican and Italian soccer teams.
"The physique and athletic build was just amazing to us," says Scheall, 25.
"I don't think I've ever met a soccer player that wasn't hot - outside of my
brother. They just have the best bodies."
And did you catch the replays of Mexican President Vicente Fox doing a very
weird dance to celebrate goals, with his wife, Marta Sahagun, looking ever
so chipper by his side?
In soccer, there is nothing to impede the view. No football helmets or
baseball caps. No shoulder pads. No hockey masks.
Tell us again why this sport isn't more popular in the United States,
because women of the world are onto this and have done excellent work
virtually scrapbooking soccer beauty.
If Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is your fave, you can go to
buffononline.com and download screen savers, or click into the chat room to
bond with other soccer lovahs, who'll go dig up and post pics of "new
hottie" Luis Garcia, if you ask.
At www.alliwantisronaldo.com, learn that Brazil's Ronaldo has a preferred
method for gearing up for a big game: a lovey-dovey bedroom session with his
wife. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what's called "rubbing it in."
Get a little Googly with Italy's Francesco Totti, and you can discover he
"likes girls with dark hair and dark skin," and that "when he is with his
girl, he forgets all the problems, difficulties and controversies of
everything. He comes back to (being) a normal boy." Oh, Francesco, how we'd
love to help.
God bless the constantly updated photos on espn.com.
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Posted by Kate Dicey on July 9, 2006, 10:39 pm
small change wrote:
>
>>James wanted France to win, but Italy was better on the night. And
>>certainly better behaved!
>>
>
>
> No kidding.
> If you gals weren't watching at least SOME of the WC, here's a great article
> about what you were missing...
Hehehehe...
I have to admit to being profoundly uninterested in footie and the World
Cup, and still less in the tennis. I was cheering Scotland in the Six
Nations, earlier in the year. I prefer rugby players: better legs and
bigger shoulders! And generally less temperamental.
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by jacqui on July 10, 2006, 2:04 am
> > No kidding.
> > If you gals weren't watching at least SOME
> > of the WC, here's a great article about what
> > you were missing...
> Hehehehe...
Ditto -- I think that was hysterical!
> I have to admit to being profoundly uninterested
> in footie and the World Cup, and still less in the
> tennis. I was cheering Scotland in the Six Nations,
> earlier in the year.
*nodnodnod* Yeah, I can't say I'm any sort of fan. But I did watch a
couple of the World Cup games with the husband (he's not a big football fan
either, but he'll watch a few of the "big" games), and was rightfully amazed
at some of the footwork.
> I prefer rugby players: better legs and bigger shoulders!
> And generally less temperamental.
After watching some of these games -- Portugal-Italy comes to mind, not to
mention Zidane's disgraceful headbutt last night -- I've been wanting to see
a bit more rugby to see if the saying is true: "Soccer, a gentleman's game
played by hoodlums; rugby, a hoodlum's game played by gentlemen." I was
rather dismayed at some of the poor sportsmanship -- this is, on a lesser
scale, why I don't watch ice hockey. Just play the game! Err, anyway ...
I really like sumo wrestling, too. :)
-j
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Posted by Kate Dicey on July 10, 2006, 4:26 am
jacqui wrote:
>
>
>>>No kidding.
>>>If you gals weren't watching at least SOME
>>>of the WC, here's a great article about what
>>>you were missing...
>
>
>>Hehehehe...
>
>
> Ditto -- I think that was hysterical!
>
>
>>I have to admit to being profoundly uninterested
>>in footie and the World Cup, and still less in the
>>tennis. I was cheering Scotland in the Six Nations,
>>earlier in the year.
>
>
> *nodnodnod* Yeah, I can't say I'm any sort of fan. But I did watch a
> couple of the World Cup games with the husband (he's not a big football fan
> either, but he'll watch a few of the "big" games), and was rightfully amazed
> at some of the footwork.
Have you ever seen 'Bend it like Beckham'? Great film - even if it is
about girl's footie! Our Mr Beckham if famous for his footwork as well
as his looks.
>
>
>>I prefer rugby players: better legs and bigger shoulders!
>>And generally less temperamental.
>
>
> After watching some of these games -- Portugal-Italy comes to mind, not to
> mention Zidane's disgraceful headbutt last night -- I've been wanting to see
> a bit more rugby to see if the saying is true: "Soccer, a gentleman's game
> played by hoodlums; rugby, a hoodlum's game played by gentlemen." I was
> rather dismayed at some of the poor sportsmanship -- this is, on a lesser
> scale, why I don't watch ice hockey. Just play the game! Err, anyway ...
>
> I really like sumo wrestling, too. :)
Can't share that one, but a good Budo match... :) James can hardly
wait to get to grammar school and try rugby and hockey. He does love
his football, but I feel with his size he may be better suited to Rugby.
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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