Well .. I've always been a fan, regardless of what billionaires try to do to the sport in the name of blatant commercialisation ;o) I think this year and last have seen a huge shakeup and far more competitive landscape. Funnily enough, when Schumi retired, a lot of people figured that would be a good time to start watching again!! I guess no one is every happy in any sport if a team or person starts dominating - everyone loves the underdog story! There have been some really dumb witch hunts in recent years and idiotic decisions on rule changes, etc., but hopefully with Mosley gone much of that will calm down now. Not sure about the new points system yet ... I think it's a bit too far, but hey - it sure as hell encourages winning as we saw in Turkey!
________________________________ From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: 11 June 2010 12:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Utterly OT - World Cup I quit watching F1 when Schumacher retired, Bernie E turned it into a farce with rules changes every 2 weeks. I was a huge fan during the Prost - Senna era. I was never a huge Ayrton fan but that guy could drive in the wet like no one else, John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families ________________________________ From: Alan Davies <adav...@cls-services.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Fri Jun 11 04:32:54 2010 Subject: RE: Utterly OT - World Cup Ha ... I bet there were a few Googles for the word "soccer" just to find out what on earth it was! ;o) Football, as the rest of the world doesn't call that American pastime, has a strange history over there .. even with Beckham joining forces temporarily! F1 suffers the same fate - the rest of the world watches and the US prefers cars that only ever turn left ;P Ok ok .. enough ribbing - at least they have good Olympic athletes and take notice of that! Wander if they'll play it "safe" with a 1-0 or go all out ... Back (loosely) on topic, we're holding our breath for the first daytime England match bandwidth wise! We've even arranged a meeting room with light refreshments to try and get those who want (and are allowed) to watch it to watch it on a telly and not streamed in HD .. a ________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 11 June 2010 08:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Utterly OT - World Cup As there is no-one from the USA in my company here in the empty north of England, I just thought I'd put a quick post for all the Americans here reminding them that England will be whupping their butts tomorrow evening in the World Cup. 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