fao Geaux Hagen and other N. Americans

How come footballers never seem to run with their thumbs up anymore? I seem to remember the Admiral shirted sides of 82 being perticularly fine exponents of this seemingly lost art. Paul Mariner and Bryan Pop Robson had it off to a T. I think it was the complimentary hair(bubble perms still the order of the day) ensemble that encouraged a jaunty flowing stride and this was topped of with excessive thumbs up or was it just more popular like v signs, which seem to have largely given way to more modish hand gestures the middle :finger: up was almost ubiquitous during the early nineties.

AV IT.......went well with the MULLETS. BALD MICK

I'm thinking it could have something to do with the coincidental disappearance of admiral shirts. The logo does afterall look like a 'thumbs up' viewed head on. I can just imagine Paul Mariner gets the call "you're in the squad lad" He packs his passport goes the hairdressers, finds himslef in Guadlahara running along jauntily. He can feel the wind in his hair and his hair on his collar bobbing along nicely, he thinks to himself "I'm jogging along nicely here but what's missing?" looks down and sees the admiral badge and up come the s

Nowadays the fists must be firmly clenched, ready to add impetus to the "accidental" elbow to face move popularised by South Americans and Italians.

This is why yanks don't dig football(soccer) off-side etc. we've been trying to explain it in the wrong terminology.

Sceptic mirth

'A zip-two shutout for Team USA saw Mexico bested and the US elevated to eight-left status at soccer's World Tournament Monday. Cobi Jones' 40-yard speed-play upfielded for Landon Donovan to put through the scorebag on his head - equalling jubilation in the US locker-room. Bradley Friedel's blanking left Mex facing a negative score-stat scenario and brought America to a 9-6-5 close-out on the road. It's a two-zip scenario! Friedel, rostering for Kasey Keller, performed big when Mexico's offensive hitman Blanco had a net-shot opportunity late in the third quarter. And the USA defense performed hang-tough also, though a non-call on fieldman John O'Brien with 23.12 on the game-clock could have led to a Card Red ejection. Field player Donovan now has 323 out-field minutes, a raise of 71 on USA at Italy Soccer World '90. USA is now to face a sudden-death match-up with spunky Germany, who is a three-time champion looking for another World Cup ring. Last week, Team States sneaked one out against Portugal when MC Bride hit into the shot-zone, earning bragging points for years to come. Veteran coach Bruce Arena placed two cornermen in the net-box to negate Portugal firing-boots George Costa and Louis Figo, and his thinking bore heavy fruits. Free agent Jeff Agoos went ape down the 11th when whistled for a clamber on Paul Eta, but Eddie The Pope holed in from the loop for O'Brien and the bird was flown. Awesome kick-fest Elsewhere, 1966 champion England is locked in the final game of a one match series with high-shooting Brazil. England is hoping star offensive lineman Mikey Owen finds his net form and snatches the championship game off Brazil team owner Phil Scolari. The ball game sees sophomore success Ron Aldo hard up against British hope Davie Beckham. Aldo, whose face is the most-sported pin in tournament merchandising stat-history, is .654 to June 17 and has the chance to move within .087 of all-time net-shake legend Mary Dona this regular season. Beck, leader of the England team on converted set-plays, is lended from the Manchester Hot-Rods franchise over the summer semester. The midfieldman scooted through backfield Saturday to slap back upcoming Danemark on a zip-three reverse. Beck was left staring at a rap-sheet at World Tournament France four years back when he was sin-binned for stud-checking Argentine centre Diego Simeon. Now he has bungeed back to claim the top-dog collar on England's special team outfit. Freshman Daniel Mills, 24, known for landing big defensive hits, will be used on wing-plays allied to rookie Trevor St Clair to jostle Brazil's tight end - mostly strikerback Dennis Nielson. Head coach Gordon-Eric Son hints power-strikes will hit upstarts Brazil early. He hopes goaltender Dave Seaman can perform his third smother-shut of the series. The soccer World Cup, a regional show based on Major League Soccer, concludes June 30 at the Grand Series finale in Japorea.' Way to go

HANK that is superb and sooo funny,i take my wig off to you. ROCKET RESPECT MICK

whoohoohoo Now that is so fooki' brilliant!! Finally i understand football.

SHUGZV AV IT !

Denis Nielson - classic :D

I'm sure the Huntsman must of wrote that American report of the Mexico game.
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