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[gabaston]

ptg

quite right

i apologise to all arse anal fans

[petethegreek]

ptg

quite right

i apologise to all arse anal fans

[Bananiot]

Two banana republics in Latin America that went to war over footbal and a headline in the "Sun" tabloid hardly makes me feel any better for what some people seem to think about a mere sporting event. Of course the "Sun" and other tabloids write rubbish in the UK but there there are the "Times" and other papers of that statue and the BBC which does not start its main news with 15 minutes on a football match. In the UK and in other serious countries there are large chunks of the population that get high on football but there are also many other diverse activities which are of the highest cultural calibre for those not interested in football, to be concerned about.

Marx said that religion is the opium of the masses and paraphrasing this, one could easily say that football, in all banana republics, is the opium of the masses. I am sad that Cypriots are more concerned with football than other aspects of our civilisation that appeal to the spirit rather than the sheer crude sentiment. Try to go to the thearte in Cyprus and you will get depressed to see always the same few people. The shows that attract some more viewers need to be bad-tasting comedies which again aim at the primitive sentiments. We live in a desert in Cyprus and if I complain about this, may be, it is because I love this place a bit more than some people in this forum.

[gabaston]

bananiot

i do not entirely disagree with you and have indeed posted the opium has been replaced by the football.

i must say though that i do enjoy football.

what saddens me though is supporters willingly dishing out vast sums of money to buy their team shirts every year, and then even more to buy a players name for it.

there are kids starving in the world, and this moron money could feed one such child for six months.

ah this is the world we live in though.

[Bananiot]

I also enjoy watching football, it is a very exciting game, but I leave it there. Kids in Cyprus, because of the propaganda, think that football is the most important god-sent gift to people. They know all the players of all 4 divisions in Cyprus and the players of the major football countries of the world. They seem to know also many personal habits of these players. This pastime is distroying their mind like cancer. They have no time or energy for the real heroes of this world, who excel in culture, (philosophy, arts, science etc).

[gabaston]

in cyprus too

sad huh

[petethegreek]

The 2 teams that went to war over a football match were not South Americans.

They were Honduras and El Salvador.

[efe]

correction: there were no ataturk speeches during the game. it was only some random guy who was trying to pump up the crowd.

also i want to ask. the people who come to the game can bring their GREECE flags. (i still think its wierd but it is acceptable, they can bring american flags too if they want.) but when anorthosis's OFFICIAL club website has a huge greek flag on top and has many hellenic nationalist slogans on it, how do you expect the TCs to support a cypriot team?

when i see this, i say to myself, the best solution is division.

[Main_Source]

Sorry, two CENTRAL American teams.

[Yiannis]

A related point: did Mr Christofi see the Anorthosis game against Trabzonspor a couple of weeks ago, where there wasn’t a single Cypriot flag in the stands, only Greek flags?

Just for the sake of clarification VP and not that im saying that it makes any difference, there were many Cyprus flags too but not the majority.