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August 18, 2003
How to stay up in ten easy stages.: The guardian is back, with a host of special reports.
"...the mysterious Eastern European tycoon who appears to have fished the GDP of Spain out from down the back of his sofa (warning: may have "ideas" about team selection; may also turn up unexpectedly deep-frozen in remote warehouse storage facility)." I've been wondering about this for a while. The age of obvious involvement by crime (non-white collar crime, of course) lords seems to be over in N.Amer sports. How are these shady teams dealt with? Is the ownership feared by the league and its own players? Any suspicious incidents that ring of cement shoes and missing digits?
posted by garfield at 09:09 AM on August 18, 2003
It's obvious Wolves and Spurs are the leading contenders for relegation. I was, however, surprised by Leicester and Fulham's strong showing.
posted by worldcup2002 at 09:50 AM on August 18, 2003
Stupid Guardian kept trying to install some kind of shite software on my box, puh-leeze! Very amusing writeups of the individual team but I'm with tieguy, did not understand much at all of the first link.
posted by billsaysthis at 11:09 AM on August 18, 2003
HEY! It tried doing that to me too!! Fucking Speedblaster...what the hell is that shit?!
posted by StarFucker at 11:31 AM on August 18, 2003
What! The Guardian is turning into Soccernet? Actually, Soccernet appears to have learnt their lesson and stopped putting up those durn popups.
posted by worldcup2002 at 11:53 AM on August 18, 2003
That was no pop up...that was some kind of bullshit that began to install itself before you could do anything about it...
posted by StarFucker at 12:19 PM on August 18, 2003
Ah, I'm using Mozilla so I don't see all that rubbish. Apologies.
posted by BigCalm at 12:21 PM on August 18, 2003
Sigh. I wish I understood all the inside jokes there :)