opinion de farce

petulance said:

On Jul 27, 2:38 pm, [email hidden] wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

People watch AFL? It's considered football? (yes I know what the F
stands for, but if I call a turd chocolate cake that don't make it
so). What ever will they think of next!

Quoted message said:

Please do not insult football by equating aerial ping pong to it.
There is only one true form of football and it was invented in the
British Isles.

There's no need to get all petulant.

Theo

Michael Warner said:

Quoted message said:

People watch AFL? It's considered football?

A great many more than take an interest in any other sort of football
(or runball, in the case of thugby), apparently.

More people in Australia play soccer than any other 'football' game.

Theo

"Michael Warner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:54:19 +0800, Andrew Priest wrote:
:
: > Phill Liggett has a column in today's Australian ... details at
: >
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22140376-2722,00.html>
:
: FWIW, I found Phil's article a lot more annoying and wrongheaded (he
: constantly drops clangers as a commentator, too, even though he's
: an enthusiastic chatter and reputedly a nice bloke). He's arguing that
this
: year's race is now pointless because the elite dopers are being chucked
: out, and I couldn't disagree more. IMHO this will go down as as the year
: that the Tour was saved.

FWIW the article I am reading at the link above
is a comment under the name of Jeremy Whittle
and NOT Phil
whose comments on SBS coverage have been much more positive about Le Tour

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Harng Goh said:

Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see Phil Liggett's name
anywhere in that article.

Ok, whichever [censored] it was who wrote it :-)

Quoted message said:

Garn! You have Subiaco over there in WA, the Wallabies play there
every now and then. What more do you want?

I'm not in WA, and from what I've heard they don't win very often these
days :-)

Theo Bekkers said:

More people in Australia play soccer than any other 'football' game.

Sure , but the crowd consists mostly of their immediate familes :-)

petulance said:

Please do not insult football by equating aerial ping pong to it.
There is only one true form of football and it was invented in the
British Isles.

Would that be the form where big beefy blokes shove their heads up
each other's arses and push, or the form where the players take a dive
if anyone gets within a metre of them?

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:06:33 GMT, Halcyon <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Phil Liggett's article? Methinks you guys do Phil an injustice...his
article is in the Oz tomorrow.
An easy mistake to make as his photo is alongside the article written by
Jeremy Whittle of The Times.
Halcyon

Yep I got it wrong as took the byline from the actual paper and missed
the "tomorrow" bit.

My appologies for such a significant mistake.

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On 2007-07-26, ProfTournesol (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Greg Baum
a so-called 'sports-writer' for The Age (should be sport-writer as his
knowledge and interest in sport stops at AFL) has written an error
filled opinion piece in today's Age. Never one to let mere facts to get
in the way of his opinion, he reached the predictable conclusion.
Perhaps he's also responsible for today's on-line poll on The Age site
too.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tourdefrance/where-to-now/2007/07/26/1185339167858.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

I couldn't imagine the Age allowing their cycling writer to write a
major article on footy - why do they do it?

Eh? You better put the tinfoil cap back on -- I thought it was a
reasonably well written article with a sympathetic view towards the
end.

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On 2007-07-27, Andrew Priest (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

ProfTournesol said:

Greg Baum
a so-called 'sports-writer' for The Age (should be sport-writer as his
knowledge and interest in sport stops at AFL) has written an error
filled opinion piece in today's Age. Never one to let mere facts to get
in the way of his opinion, he reached the predictable conclusion.
Perhaps he's also responsible for today's on-line poll on The Age site
too.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tourdefrance/where-to-now/2007/07/26/1185339167858.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Phill Liggett has a column in today's Australian ... details at
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22140376-2722,00.html>

Now that was a terribly written article, but it also wasn't Phill Liggett.

Hint: the byline seems to state "Jeremy Whittle"

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