hunck
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Eh?….Didn’t they just win?England invented Rugby but they can;t play Rugby...what a pie of shit ...going to stick with the NRL.
Eh?….Didn’t they just win?England invented Rugby but they can;t play Rugby...what a pie of shit ...going to stick with the NRL.
Your evidence?I've been saying for years that one of England's great talents is inventing sports for the rest of the world to promptly beat us at, at every opportunity
Ahem, golf wasn't invented by the English.Your evidence?
Apart from rugby union, rugby league, football (soccer), cricket, badminton, golf...
Ah, I see, you may just have a point. I'm sure Google could add a few more to the mix.
Good point!Ahem, golf wasn't invented by the English.
You're excusedGood point!
I'm usually pretty good at differentiating between the various nations of the UK - but it was late and I'd had some wine!
England invented Rugby but they can;t play Rugby...what a pie of shit ...going to stick with the NRL.
Ahem, golf wasn't invented by the English.
Win ugly and it's doesn't get new people watching as it's to complicated.Eh?….Didn’t they just win?
If I want to see endless kicking then I watch AFL.Eh? But even with a man down we comprehensively defeated a team rated above us in the international rankings.
That is the stuff of legends!
You can blame the idiotic rule-changes, that dish out red cards like confetti, for changing the nature of the game.
With contact now being discouraged, we will certainly see more of a return to the kicking game (which rugby used to be back when the scoring was standardised with a try worth only 1 point and drop-goals, penalties or kicks from a mark worth 3 points).
England just seem to be early adopters of these new-age kicking tactics and I applaud them for it!
I love to see long-distance, spectacular drop-goals, just as in football, I much prefer to see a 35 yard shot screaming into the back of the net rather than the yawn-inducing "tippy-tappy" football, with teams trying to pass the ball into the net.
Well the R&A is based at St Andrew's, and that sounds like Fife.No. It was invented by the Hobbit Bandobras Took who "took off the head of the goblin king with a wood club, causing it to fly through the air for 100 yards and fall down a rabbit hole; it is said that this is how the game of golf was invented."
And it's TRUE.
As West Ham lost 5-0 they were probably glad to miss it.Ha! Ha!
Boat carrying West Ham fans gets wedged under London’s Hammersmith Bridge
The boat carrying West Ham fans became stuck beneath the Hammersmith Bridge on Sunday (Mortlake Brewery/PA)
A boat carrying West Ham football fans became stuck underneath a suspension bridge on the River Thames as it travelled to a football match on Sunday.
The vessel, MV Emerald of London, was due to take the West Ham supporters to a Premier League match against Fulham at the Craven Cottage stadium but it was forced to turn round after becoming wedged beneath Hammersmith Bridge in west London.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41288227.html
Margaret Court was in attendance?
While the guy was fast, the Kenyan runners were paid to 'throw' the race.The Kenyan said four runners had been contracted to help He break the Chinese half-marathon record of one hour two minutes 33 seconds, and that one of them did not finish the race.
He missed out on the record with a time of 1:03:44, one second ahead of the trio, who tied for second place.
I take no interest in sport and had dismissed the Enhanced Games as an April Fool jape.James Magnussen to make swimming 'world record' attempt taking banned drugs
Ex-world champion James Magnussen says he will take banned drugs in an attempt to swim faster than a world record.
The Australian, 32, will come out of retirement to compete in the Enhanced Games, where doping is allowed.
Magnussen will try to swim faster than the 50-metre freestyle record, though it would not be official because there would be no drug-testing regime.
"I'll juice to the gills and I'll break it in six months," said Magnussen, who will be paid $1m (£792,000).
The men's 50m freestyle world record of 20.91 seconds was set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in 2009, though he was wearing a performance-enhancing, non-textile swimsuit that was banned a few months later.
The Enhanced Games was founded by Australian businessman Aron D'Souza in 2023 and would not be subject to World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
Via BBC Sport
I love the idea of this!
I wonder if there's an open class?
Me: "I would like to set a new world record for the 100m while simultaneously taking ecstasy, a gram of whizz, and sprinkle of Special K to even it out."
Olympic Official: "For what sporting purpose, sir?"
Me: "Sporting what?"