Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working classes, who vent the national rage by beating up on people. Or the unemployment argument: more than a million young Britons out of work, cruising for a battle they can win. In more general terms, these soccer riots might even be pinned on politics: the European Cup seen as Europe's latest intramural war. Or sex: Could the scene in Brussels be the re-enactment of the rape of Italy by a frothing, snorting herd? Or chance: if you cannot control the outcome of a game, at least you can control the fight. Who, in such a discussion, would...
...cause and effect sits gasping human will, flailing about in an effort to rationalize events that, in the end, cannot be rationalized. In 1969 a full-scale war broke out between Honduras and El Salvador that began with soccer fans clashing during the elimination round of the 1970 World Cup and concluded with bombing raids, troop movements and, eventually, 2,000 dead. Where does the historian search for the onset of that war: in the stadium or in the genes...
...claimed the national five, six-and nine-man championships, dropping barely any games, much less matches, along the way to the feat. The women earned the Ivy title and the Howe Cup (the de facto national title) in the same year for the first time in the team's history...
...final whistle had sounded. Before a crowd of 80,000 in Peking's Workers' Stadium, Hong Kong had knocked China out of contention for the 1986 World Cup, and the Chinese players, humiliated by their 2-1 defeat, stormed off the soccer field without so much as a handshake for their opponents. Then the real action began. From the stands, angry fans unleashed a volley of soda bottles. Soon hordes of spectators poured onto the field in pursuit of the victors, forcing the Hong Kong team to flee to a room reserved for dignitaries. Others besieged the home team...
...truckers are lining up for seconds at the breakfast buffet (all you can eat for $3.99 -- biscuits with chipped-beef gravy, fruit cup, French toast with syrup, bacon, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, doughnuts, Danish, cereal in little boxes...