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| Name: | Jim Weldon |
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| Location: | Beijing |
| Member since: | December 18, 2006 |
| Last visit: | July 27, 2008 |
Abiezer has posted 18 links and 79 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room.
How Soccer Explains China: China is about to bag a sackful of Olympic Golds but that won't be any comfort to Han sporting nationalists, because the country (its men's team anyway) are still crap at the only sport that matters, association football.
posted by Abiezer to football at 04:06 AM on July 25, 2008 - 1 comment
All the goals from the world's major footie leagues, as YouTube-like Flash video highlights. : The interface is in Spanish, but navigation is straightforward. Premiership, La Liga, Calcio, Bundesliga and much, much more. Eat my goal!
posted by Abiezer to soccer at 05:58 AM on February 03, 2008 - 3 comments
Walter Tull: was born into a poor family and orphaned at an early age. Conditions were tough and opinions prejudiced but by the age of nineteen Walter Tull was playing first team football for Spurs – the first black outfield player in history. Then came the Great War. Tull signed up as a private but within three years he had become the first British-born black officer.
posted by Abiezer to soccer at 02:52 PM on November 17, 2007 - 4 comments
Pyramid passion: One man's odyssey around the lower reaches of British non-league football. Lots of quirky reading about such luminaries of the game as Staveley Miners Welfare and Gala Fairydean. Much photography of various ramshackle grounds and the supporters who half-fill them. You can almost smell the Bovril.
posted by Abiezer to soccer at 06:29 AM on November 04, 2007 - 5 comments
Tartan Army takes the high road: Beating Ukraine 3-1 at Hampden to continue their unexpected Euro qualifiers group-topping run was probably more than enough to make Scotland supporters feel good about themselves. But they've gone a bit better; their half-time rendition of Loch Lomond [Amateur video] will be made into a single with uber-folksters Runrig, proceeds to charity Children in Need.
posted by Abiezer to soccer at 11:32 AM on October 14, 2007 - 6 comments
Apparently McLaren is going to use his new-found leisure time to pursue a career in pantomime playing a pumpkin - he's heard it may mean he eventually turns into a coach.
posted by Abiezer at 02:13 PM on November 22, 2007
I avoided heartbreak by laughing like a crazy bastard instead. What a shambles.
posted by Abiezer at 06:35 PM on November 21, 2007
Ten minutes to kick-off and I believe it'll be live on Chinese free-to-air telly. It's 4 a.m. here, so I hope I haven't sat up for a heartbreak.
posted by Abiezer at 01:53 PM on November 21, 2007
the only team named after an agricultural fertilizer That's not true! What about Man Ure? Groan Funnily enough, my few regularish non-league haunts don't make his ground guide; but I see he accepts submissions so I must take the camera next time I'm back.
posted by Abiezer at 12:00 AM on November 05, 2007
Not a patch on me earlier post about abandoned footie grounds in the Scottish Junior leagues and dodgy catering in sheds. Hah!
posted by Abiezer at 05:58 PM on November 04, 2007
That being said I really, really don't want England to win. But I don't want SA to win either. Maybe "sport will be the winner." Heh. Fat chance.
posted by Abiezer at 04:46 AM on October 16, 2007
Yeah, that raised a chuckle gspm. Sadly I think it was just a thick native. There was another video with the title spelled right, but the quality was even worse. Filming while joining in enthusiastically it looked like, at the sound was bad too.
posted by Abiezer at 11:14 PM on October 14, 2007
It's time for you to be frank, Shinawatra. Sorry.
posted by Abiezer at 10:24 PM on October 13, 2007
Heh. I had excitedly clicked on the linked article only shortly after it was posted, such was my interest. I merely waited until now to comment because digesting the weighty and thrilling matters I read of therein was not a matter to be taken lightly. One can only applaud the church's willingness to commit hard cash to an admirable campaign to restore dignity to the world's game in the troubled home of one of its traditional powerhouses. The old pope was a goalie, you know.
posted by Abiezer at 10:00 PM on October 13, 2007
Shenanigans at the China-Denmark match
posted by Abiezer at 01:01 AM on September 21, 2007
Not been following too closely even though plenty of the games are free-to-air here in the host nation. Can't work out the venues for the later matches. If England play anywhere close (Tianjin is not too far) I think I'll make the effort to turn up and support. Away the lasses. China look like they'll struggle to get out of their group which is not going to help crowds for the later stages.
posted by Abiezer at 06:38 AM on September 18, 2007
Then I mourn the great man all the more, owlhouse!
posted by Abiezer at 07:00 PM on September 09, 2007
Booker T and the MGs' Soul Limbo that they (used to?) use for cricket on the Beeb was always a fave for me.
posted by Abiezer at 11:29 AM on September 07, 2007
UK satirical mag Private Eye has for years run a regular feature of these sort of stupidities, called Colemanballs after a particularly gaffe-prone telly bloke.
posted by Abiezer at 01:04 PM on August 22, 2007
McClaren sacked for big loss
One the Crewe forums the consensus seemed to be Mourinho, with any objections raised being more against the style of football that would imply than him not being English, but now he's ruling himself out, isn't he? So I don't think there'd be much of a popular backlash against a foreign coach any more. Very much agree that the FA needs a root-and-branch sorting.