From: "Keri Malone" <ocicats-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re:Football with Darwin Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:26:52 GMT Okay.Okay.It was England. I plead guilty. I should be drawn and quartered for such slander. I do know better,but I _still_ refuse to address anything to Scotland,U.K. Cheers, Keri >Ahem . Keri, you ought to know better than that. >The "nation" whose national football team's >coach got the sack for saying that disabled >people are being punished because of their >bad karma from a previous life was _England_ . >There is not, and there never has been, such >a thing as the UK "national" football team. >But yes, it is true that the English papers >have been obsessed with this appalling >disaster (not so much what he said about >the disabled, but the fact that they had lost >yet another team coach) and it is true that >the Scottish papers have also covered this >story, out of schadenfreude (I think that's >the word for "joy at the troubles of others"). >Dave ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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