No Blood For Footcer
Tomorrow I get to live the footcer dream in Columbus, OH seeing Fulham play on United States soil against the Columbus Crew. Well, really the dream would be watching Fulham play the Chicago Fire in my back alley (though they'd have to use indoor footcer rules because it's not a very wide thoroughfare). But watching Fulham (hopefully) beat up on the Crew in a "private" friendly (clutches imaginary FulhamUSA membership card to chest) is a close second.
Getting ready for the little over seven hour car trip from Chicago (it's a long story involving horrible planning), I totally neglected to realize that the Champions League second round was happening today.
In a result that isn't really a surprise, Liverpool beat Lithuanian champions Kaunas 3-1.
The only thing really important coming out of this match was that Milan Baros did not play since if he had played for Liverpool, he couldn't play for any other team in the Champions League this season. The deadline for Champions League qualification of players is coming up so the Czech should be somewhere else very soon.
There was a more evenly matched event and one with great political significance in the Champions League today. It marked the first time a team from Cyprus had met a team from Turkey. The team from Cyprus, Anorthosis Famagusta, won 3-1 in a huge upset.
But the biggest upset of all was the win against violence at this match. Cyprus is divided right in half with Turkey and Greece ready to go back to war over it at a moment's notice. Geez the Champions League is living life on the edge this year! Only 1,500 Turkish Cypriots were willing to cross the Green Zone to see the match.
What's next. A match between an Iranian and an Iraqi team as guest invitees?
Speaking of the Iranians, in a simply brilliant move I didn't know about, Milwall invited the national team of Iran to play a friendly in London.
Now there's a difference between Inter Milan cancelling their group of English friendlies (which is back on thank goodness) and inviting danger. Who does Milwall think they are, UEFA? I mean if you're going to risk the lives of Britons, at least the friendly can involve someone of the caliber of Tottenham (or to be fair and self-effacing Fulham).
No blood for Colaship teams! :)
Oh, never mind, the Iranian national team also played QPR (how could I not be paying attention to that) with that London also-ran winning 3-0.
Let me rephrase...
No blood for a Colaship tour! :)
Of course, being a fuzzy liberal, I do have to state that the last jokes about Iran were done purely in gest. And, after all, violence amongst fans or players knows no boundaries. Just look at Manchester United's match against Beijing Hyundai where yet another European side got in yet another scrap with a far east Asian side.
Then again, it is Manchester United. Perhaps the members of FC Car Company were just trying to get tryout with FC United by showing that their hatred for the Red Devils knows no bounds. :)
Getting ready for the little over seven hour car trip from Chicago (it's a long story involving horrible planning), I totally neglected to realize that the Champions League second round was happening today.
In a result that isn't really a surprise, Liverpool beat Lithuanian champions Kaunas 3-1.
The only thing really important coming out of this match was that Milan Baros did not play since if he had played for Liverpool, he couldn't play for any other team in the Champions League this season. The deadline for Champions League qualification of players is coming up so the Czech should be somewhere else very soon.
There was a more evenly matched event and one with great political significance in the Champions League today. It marked the first time a team from Cyprus had met a team from Turkey. The team from Cyprus, Anorthosis Famagusta, won 3-1 in a huge upset.
But the biggest upset of all was the win against violence at this match. Cyprus is divided right in half with Turkey and Greece ready to go back to war over it at a moment's notice. Geez the Champions League is living life on the edge this year! Only 1,500 Turkish Cypriots were willing to cross the Green Zone to see the match.
What's next. A match between an Iranian and an Iraqi team as guest invitees?
Speaking of the Iranians, in a simply brilliant move I didn't know about, Milwall invited the national team of Iran to play a friendly in London.
Now there's a difference between Inter Milan cancelling their group of English friendlies (which is back on thank goodness) and inviting danger. Who does Milwall think they are, UEFA? I mean if you're going to risk the lives of Britons, at least the friendly can involve someone of the caliber of Tottenham (or to be fair and self-effacing Fulham).
No blood for Colaship teams! :)
Oh, never mind, the Iranian national team also played QPR (how could I not be paying attention to that) with that London also-ran winning 3-0.
Let me rephrase...
No blood for a Colaship tour! :)
Of course, being a fuzzy liberal, I do have to state that the last jokes about Iran were done purely in gest. And, after all, violence amongst fans or players knows no boundaries. Just look at Manchester United's match against Beijing Hyundai where yet another European side got in yet another scrap with a far east Asian side.
Then again, it is Manchester United. Perhaps the members of FC Car Company were just trying to get tryout with FC United by showing that their hatred for the Red Devils knows no bounds. :)
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