Wednesday, June 28, 2006

English Pride



Here's a heartwarming story from the World Cup. Never before have I been so proud to be English:

BEER WE GO
Germans fear we're going to drink them dry
By Jeremy Armstrong

ENGLAND's massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday.

Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters.

In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints each.

Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: "Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time."

His bar at a fans' tent in the city ran out after they drained all 32 of his 50-litre (11 gallon) barrels.

Herr Murr calculated Britons were shifting beer at a staggering rate of 200 pints per minute.

City official Peter Murrmann said: "The English proved themselves world champs. They practically drank us dry."

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

It's better to burn out then to fade away

This may seem like an extreme meltdown, but you have to remember how high the stakes are with this being a minor league baseball game.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Chewbacca the drummer

The Storm Trooper isn't too shabby on the bass, either.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Copa Mundial

I thought I should remind the American readers of this blog that there is a big sporting event going on at the moment. Bigger than the Olympics for most of the world. A game where feet actually do come into contact with ball.

Here are my overtly nationalistic predictions for the knockout stage of the competition...



Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the USA will play Iran in this year's cup. Here's what happened last time they met: