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February 17, 2004
There's always hope.: Local paper sees light at the end of a loooong tunnel for Northern Ireland (1,242 scoreless minutes and counting).
posted by aaronscullion to football at 07:57 AM - 13 comments
Oops.. terribly sorry. Strange - as an Irishman, I would usually say soccer anyway..
posted by aaronscullion at 09:37 AM on February 17, 2004
Only 30 minuntes away from the all time world record.
posted by dng at 09:53 AM on February 17, 2004
Yes, nearly 14 games without a goal has got to be disheartening.
posted by scully at 09:59 AM on February 17, 2004
I read that article and after seeing the names of the strikers came to realize that this is simply an effort by the local paper to give some hope to its readers as there's almost no chance at all this set of non-top level forwards will go net against Norway.
posted by billsaysthis at 11:39 AM on February 17, 2004
I imagine that 1,242 min is an understatement if I am correct in my assumption that the injury time added on at the ends of halves is not officially counted in this total. say 14 games x 5 min of injury time per game = another 70 min. Not to rub their noses in it.
posted by gspm at 04:01 PM on February 17, 2004
Despite the possibility for confusion, the protocol here is to use the "soccer" topic for the beautiful game. And yet, strangely enough, despite the possibility for confusion, TPTB persist in using "football" for American football. /snark.
posted by salmacis at 12:31 PM on February 18, 2004
The 1982 and 1986 world cups seem a long long time ago, now don't they? Seriously, when you consider the quality of the players available to Sanchez, it looks like the IFA (or is it the FAI??) ought to be scheduling a match with Andorra if they want a win. I'm surprised no Americans have challenged the author's view that Maik Taylor has been better than Timmy in the Premiership this year. Personally I couldn't say. I try not to watch either Birmingham City or Manchester United.
posted by salmacis at 12:36 PM on February 18, 2004
I guess it's not happening today. 3-0 and it's only the first half.
posted by worldcup2002 at 02:57 PM on February 18, 2004
They finally got one. Too late to prevent the world record though...
posted by dng at 03:39 PM on February 18, 2004
Well, at least they scored. And got the world record. ;-)
posted by worldcup2002 at 04:18 PM on February 18, 2004
Hurrah for N.I.!!!
posted by billsaysthis at 07:14 PM on February 18, 2004
OTOH, they scored one more goal today thann the Americans did in their match. I cannot believe our boys didn't play better, especially after the embarrasment in Mexico last week. Of course, my fecking cable box played tricks on me today and I didn't get to tape this either.
posted by billsaysthis at 07:16 PM on February 18, 2004
Aastonscullion: Despite the possibility for confusion, the protocol here is to use the "soccer" topic for the beautiful game.