whoops, wrong link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Motson
"For those of you watching in black and white, Tottenham Hotspur are
playing in yellow"
"No goalkeeper in the world would have stopped that!"
"The Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club!"
"England versus Germany games have often caused the teacups to topple
off the table, so those of you at home watching tonight be careful
with the crockery"
Also
http://dangerhere.com/issues/issue19-240901/bonmottys.htm
On 28/06/06, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> curling, shmurling ... I've always gone for Aussie rules hurling
> m'self. Pass the bucket, nurse!
>
> I'm worried now that there're a lot of culturally deprived people on
> petc - people who may have read Dante and Pound but who've not had
> the exquisite pleasure of listening to Mottie dissecting the offside
> rule ... For those so deprived,
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3797259.stm
>
> For some real toe-curling: http://www.footballpoets.org/
>
> Roger
>
> On 28/06/06, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Shurely you mean hurling, all those brooms and frosty cold...
> >
> > No, that's curling ...
> >
> > > And is
> > > there a World Cup for it? Like the "world series" for this thing
> > > involving a "base" and a "ball".
> >
> > Well, it's an Olympic sport, and the Scottish Women's team won the gold
> > medal at the last Winter Olympics.
> >
> > Hurling (I misspelled it initially) is a bit like shinty (the Irish name for
> > it, if it's not the other way around) -- hockey with lethal force.
> >
> > Robin
> >
>
>
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>
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