All the tries from New Zealand's emphatic win over the Great Britain rugby league team at WestpacTrust Stadium in Wellington on Friday night, including Ruben Wiki's freakish try: a little chip kick from Stacey Jones bounces off the crossbar of the uprights, and falls into a grateful Wiki's arms.
Final score: Kiwis 34 - Great Britain 4, keeping the Kiwis hopes of making the Tri-Nations final alive (dare one say, "go the Aussies!"?).
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
36 balls, and still no-one can score...
From the UK Sun...
AN FA Cup game grinds to a halt after pranksters throw 36 balls on to the pitch.
Play in Walsall's match at Macclesfield last night had to be suspended for a few minutes when the brightly-coloured balls were lobbed from outside the ground over the roof of a stand.
Kids from a nearby estate were blamed for the jape 55 minutes into the televised first round match.
Ex-England ace Paul Ince, boss of League Two strugglers Macclesfield, joked: "They will come in handy. We've only got about eight for practice sessions."
Despite the extra balls no one could score and the match ended 0-0.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
"I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist."
Following Luton's 2-3 defeat to QPR in England's Division One League over the weekend, Luton Manager Mike Newell decided the female line assistant was to blame...
Needless to say, all hell is broken loose in the UK media, Newell has since apologised (or not, depending on how you read it), and it now appears his job may be on the line as a result of his outburst. Idiot.
[Update: one of the better commentary pieces on the affair has been written by Zoe Williams over at Guardian Unlimited.]
She shouldn't be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? We have a problem in this country with political correctness - bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom. If you start bringing in women you have big problems. It is tokenism for the politically correct idiots.Replace 'women' with 'blacks', and 'sexist' with 'racist', to better highlight the sheer idiocy of this statement.
Needless to say, all hell is broken loose in the UK media, Newell has since apologised (or not, depending on how you read it), and it now appears his job may be on the line as a result of his outburst. Idiot.
[Update: one of the better commentary pieces on the affair has been written by Zoe Williams over at Guardian Unlimited.]
Willie Mason - Dick of the Year?
Ah yes, it wouldn't be a sporting week without some new piece of idiocy from everyones favourite kiwi-born Aussie league A.D.D-affected doofus, Willie Mason, this time giving Britain's Stuart Fielden a punch that broke his nose and dropped the unlucky Brit to the ground like a bag of spuds during the Poms 23-12 win over the Aussies at Sydney on the 4th of November at Aussie Stadium in Sydney.
According to Willie Mason (via BBC quotes of the week) this was the provocation that caused the blow...
End result: Mason banned for only one match and fined $5000.
According to Willie Mason (via BBC quotes of the week) this was the provocation that caused the blow...
He said 'Come on you ******* Aussie ****'. I said '**** you, you Pommie ****wit'. He said 'Let's go, let's go, I will belt you, you Aussie T***'.And, thanks to the magic of YouTube, here's two different television angles of the 'biff' for you...
End result: Mason banned for only one match and fined $5000.
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