There’s a thin line between organised violence and sport, especially in Kerry. Things get a little hot between the minors from Moyvane and Castleisland. At aorund 0.43 it sounds like there’s shots being fired. There’s passion for you.
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There’s a thin line between organised violence and sport, especially in Kerry. Things get a little hot between the minors from Moyvane and Castleisland. At aorund 0.43 it sounds like there’s shots being fired. There’s passion for you.
Foreign Policy has an excellent list of 10 sports events that were far more important than the competition itself. In at first place is the 1936 Olypics in Berlin where Hitler was hoping to show off his elite athletes and the superiorty of his regieme. However, nobody told the Fuhrer that Jesse Owen would ruin the party.
In at number two, La Guerra de futbol (aka “Soccer War”): El Salvador vs. Honduras, 1969.
Here’s a case where sports may have helped cause a war: a hard-fought match between El Salvador and Honduras in a preliminary round for the 1970 FIFA World Cup exacerbated the existing tensions between the two states and helped spark a brief four-day war in which over 1000 people died. The war ended inconclusively and El Salvador eventually won the actual match, but was ousted in a subsequent round and did not make the finals.
According to North Korean news media Kim Jong Il is a renaissance man who has flown fighter aircraft, written operas and shot 11 holes-in-one in his first try at golf. CNN
In June 2009, only 16% of Twitter.com website users were under the age of 25. Nielsen blog
Over a 12 month period Manchester City football club has recruited 12 players from 10 different nations costing the club about £195 million ($330 million). The New York Times
PayPal, the online payments service, has about 75 million active users and is the world’s largest internet-based payment system. It handles $2,000 a second in online transactions. Reuters
Between April and June this year US consumers purchased 5.2 million new iPhones. newmatilda.com
Ask not what your team can do for you, but what you can do for your team. [thanks, Pete]
Much of the sports talk in the UK is dominated by Real Madrid’s £80m offer to buy Cristiano Ronaldo, only days after they secured Kaka from Milan for more than £50m. While much of the focus is on how Real can afford to pay for such massive transfers, Bill Wilson, a BBC business reporter, hit upon an interesting point that could have helped in Ronaldo’s move to Spain.
Another benefit, one that helps attract top name players, is the fact that tax legislation allows their [Spain] foreign players to pay tax at about 23% for the first five years that they are in the country.
From April next year, anyone earning over £150,000 in the UK will pay 50% tax on all earnings. Compared with the 23% Ronaldo will pay in Spain, I’d say it’s a smart move.
And from the Guardian football blog:
Goals are the defining currency of the sport. It’s hard to work out a precise exchange rate these days, but 91 goals in three seasons seems a fair trade, even at £80m.
[thanks, Carl]
Got a game at lunchtime today; no doubt I’ll bang in a goal of this calibre. Watch it in slow motion afterwards, after Grafite makes idiots of the defence he back heels the ball in to score. Such insouciance.
Staying with the beautiful game - welcome back Roy Keane. Total leg-bag.
