Re: drsquare is a useless troll was Re: What does everyone reckon our chances are for the Euro 2004 qualifying?

Jonathan Ball <jon...@mindspring.NS.com> espoused:
>Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> Dutch <n...@email.com> espoused:
>> 
>>>"Jonathan Ball" <jon...@mindspring.NS.com> wrote
>[...]
>>>>You don't know what you're talking about.  Any idiot
>>>>can run around on a field kicking at something; even
>>>>you can probably do it.  Let's see you even *stand* on
>>>>ice skates, let alone take a shot at the puck without
>>>>landing on your fat ass.
>>>>
>>>Now that we're thoroughly off-topic I might as well say my bit.
>>>
>>>I've played the major sports at the medium amateur level, men's inter-city
>>>basketball in Timmins/Noranda, Junior football (18 years old), and industrial
>>>league hockey. I've only kicked a soccer ball around a few times. There's no
>>>
>> 
>> These are only major sports in one or two countries.  Elsewhere, they're
>> minor at best.
>
>You're an idiot.  Ice hockey is played throughout 
>northern Europe, Canada and the U.S., and many of the 
>countries of the ex-USSR.
>

Please don't be abusive.

Ice hockey is taken seriously in approx 6 or 7 countries
in the world, but let's call it 15 if you want.  

There is no Northern European country where Ice Hockey gets
even a fraction of the following of Football.

I currently have an au-pair from Slovakia, a major power in
Ice Hockey, with a population of less than 2 million.  That
should tell you something.  I have a boatload of family in
Canada, and am aware of the strong following for Ice-Hockey
there.

Football, however, is played seriously in around 200 countries.  
Just because Ice Hockey happens to be popular where you are does
not make it even vaguely significant in terms of world sport -
it's just not on the radar.

More countries play Cricket at a high standard than Ice Hockey,
for example.

-- 
Mark Kent
                                               Take out the ham to mail me.

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