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...great sorrow of Irish soccer fans, the fat lady of their sport sang on Friday, dashing what little hope Ireland had left of reviving its vanquished World Cup dreams...
...other officials in France weren't as reserved about signaling their discomfort over the tainted win. French Sport and Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot admitted that her "feelings are split between what you might call cowardly relief and great consternation." Her Cabinet colleague Economy Minister Christine Lagarde went further, telling RTL radio Friday that she found it "sad to qualify by cheating" and saying the situation merited a rematch. In apparent anticipation of FIFA's ruling against that possibility, Lagarde then said that when "rules are bad, you have to call them into question...
...Nothing matters more Quite simply, no other sporting event in the world comes close to matching the spirit of the World Cup. The Olympics may garner the attention of more global leaders and media outlets, but its myriad competitions and choreographed pageantry can never generate the unifying, almost cosmic passion that envelops the World Cup. As David Goldblatt asks in his definitive history of soccer, The Ball Is Round, "Is there any cultural practice more global than football?" It has more followers than any one religion and is more universal than any one language. Even Americans - some of whom still...
...other sport does rivalry matter more to a team and its fans, where a player’s legacy is defined by his performance against the hated archrival, where a disheartened fan finds his BMW 750 sedan torched on fire by fervent Buckeye fans because the license plate gave away that he was from Michigan...
...football team wasn’t exactly loaded with blue-chippers who could run 4.3-second forties. What bothered me, however, wasn’t how we played football, but how we—as a student body—didn’t care very much about the sport. Despite the Crimson’s absolute dominance in the Ivy League in recent years, the fan support just wasn’t there...