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[pumpernickle]

Look, it hasn't failed to cross my mind on a number of occassions that football teams exist in Cyprus. A number of them. And they have their own stadiums, supporters and everything!

Is this some sort of joke, or a prelude to a new era in genetic engineering.

Come on people - how can Paralimni have its own football club. It's demographics paint a colourful picture of a bunch of old women carrying sticks, men smoking fags in working mens clubs, and grizzly ex-soldiers sitting in cafes trying to read I Simerini.

The rest of the folks there are English Ex-pats and failed businessmen on the tax dodge.

Where the f**k are the 18-30 year old men to choose from in order to make up a squad?

Most place in Cyprus require a blood test from their inhabitants in order to prove or disprove in-breeding. Are you telling me the gene pool is big enough and healthy enough to support an entire league of fit, healthy and active football teams?

Either the answer is 'like fu*k!', or Cyprus is the testing ground for strange eery sciences.

Let's face it, footy is a multi million pound business. If you can clone an Henry or a Terry, you are laughing! What if the testing phases of this is happening right under our noses?

Cloned young people are currently playing football for Cypriot clubs, probably given a makeover before they appear on pitch, and maybe a fake beard.

They run on pitch, nobody is any the wiser, and you have a full squad out n order to complete 90 minutes of utter, excrutiating dog turd.

The bigger picture could be interesting. Just need to see if the clones don't have a heart attack any time soon. After all, Paralimni life is life on the edge as we know it.

[cypezokyli]

pumpernickle ..this is cyprus problem section

you are right about football. this afternoon i tried after years to listen through the net the game apollon-apoel and i had difficulties in listening cypriot names.. and these teams are from nicosia and limassol!!! so it has nothing to do with demographics.

ocfource can paralimni have its own team. its perfectly healthy for a village to have one, especially if they dont play in the first division. first division means more money, higher targets, and more foreign players.

as for the demographics of paralimni... i dont have a clue. i was never there to be honest.

[pumpernickle]

Nicosia, Paralimni, what's the diff?

They still have to wait for the three spotty 13 year olds to pick up their I-pods and pepsis and clear off the field before they start practising.

No wonder they rioted 2 months ago...the fans were probably fighting over the same 4 seats, tucked precariously between the emergency exit and the hotdog stand. You know, the one that opens from 11am till 12 noon, then shuts till 7pm for a 'siesta' before re-opening for a last blast till last orders at 7.45.

I'd love to know how much they get paid. Is it like in Russia in 1917? they get paid in bayonets, stale loaves and vodka, cos the money is tied up in 'fighting the enemy within'.

And before anyone turns this into a boring debate about politics, no. It's not going to happen. Its about football in cyprus. And I don't care if its in the wrong forum. Tough.

*toys leave pram hastily...*

[cypezokyli]

you cannot talk about football in cyprus without including politics ?

from your team one can understand what party you vote
its kind of sick but we ll get over it... once we forget football and start with tennis