🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:37:03 -0600, G. Morgan wrote:

> Aardvark wrote:
> 
>>Liverpool just won the Carling Cup final, playing against Cardiff. the
>>score was 1-1 at full time. Extra time of fifteen minutes each way was
>>played, resulting in a 2-2 score line.
>>
>>It went to penalties. Cardiff scored twice, Liverpool scored three
>>times.
>>
>>First bit of silverware LFC have won for something like 6 years.
>>
>>Everyone here has a wide smile.
> 
> I didn't understand a fucking word you wrote!

Well, most of you USAians just can't wrap your head around 'the beautiful 
game'. As a famous former Liverpool manager, Bill Shankley, said about 
the game, 'It's not a matter of life and death- it's more important than 
that'.

:-)

When two teams play in a cup final and the scores are equal after ninety 
minutes, they then play fifteen minutes each way. If, at the end of this 
further thirty minutes of play the scores are still level, then it goes 
to penalties.

Each team may take turns at kicking the ball at the goal from the penalty 
spot for a total of five goes each. If, at the end of this penalty 
session the scores are *still* level, it goes to 'sudden death'.

The teams take turns taking penalties and the first team to score wins 
the match, and thus the cup.

Yesterday it became more tense right up to the final kick. The Cardiff 
goalie *had* to save the shot, the Liverpool player *had* to score, as 
both teams had previously scored two goals each during this stage.

As I said- nail-biting stuff right to the end.   



-- 
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved 
in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom 
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".
-John Donne (1572-1631)