[SOC] Desecration

[Ian C. Purdie]

David Evans wrote:
> Now I'm provoked
> 
> Crikit is the game the Brits invented so that the rest of the world could beat us at it - just like football (Soccer for those in the US).

Fair suck of the Sav David [Saveloy for those not in the know]. Don't we 
all just take turns beating one another?
> 
> Perhaps the USA might take it up (Cricket) and add to our misery!  After all it is no more esoteric than Baseball.

Well there used to be a cricket team, mostly comprising ex-pats though.

With football [not soccer], years ago they used to annually field a 
competitive team in the very entertaining Rugby League "Coca Cola 
Sevens" competition.

That was a season curtain raiser held over a weekend but once money 
entered the game, Sydney coaches would only field third graders rather 
than risk their "stars" suffering injury.

I always used to put my hard earned down on one of the Pacific Island 
teams. To them it's not a game but a religion.

Teams [seven a side] from all around the world, playing two halves of 
ten minutes at a frenetic pace over a Saturday and Sunday.

Immensely entertaining and the venue always sold out three months ahead, 
everyone else settled down for almost non-stop football broadcast on TV 
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Money ruined it like everything.


Thanks! :) 72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
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