Favourite Soccer Team

[Platypus]

I had a team in every league at one stage, but I can't remember most of them.

Favourite: Australian national team

A-League: Melbourne Victory
Chile: Magallanes
Argentina: Rosario Central
EPL: Liverpool
Scotland: Hearts
Netherlands: Feyenoord
France: OL
Spain: Barcelona
Portugal: Porto
Italy: Lazio
Germany: Bayern Munich

No rhyme or reason for most of the picks.

[Platypus]

Also Feyenoord, the club whose hard-core fans have a history of less than ...tastefull chants.

'Alle joden aan het gas' ('All jews on gas') stands out as especially memorable.

"Jews", in that sentence, being code for Ajax fans.

Same tradition with Arsenal vs Tottenham... so yeah, why Liverpool and not Arsenal? Why Barca and not Atletico?

OL is the club in France that shites it money all over everything, so they belong on the list. Can't judge about the southron clubs, of course.

Most of it comes from choosing teams when I was in grade 4, based off a combination of:

a) FIFA Futbol Mundial club profiles
(Porto, Lazio; not that they were good profiles, just that they had profiles at all)
b) Teams that Andrew Mazuras, a school friend, didn't like
(Liverpool, Barca)
c) Teams that I played in FIFA '97
(OL, Bayern)
d) Teams who I liked the name of
(Hearts, Feyenoord)

Of the other three, Melbourne Victory is the home team, Rosario Central I saw live in Argentina in 2006, against San Lorenzo, and Magellanes cos the family who ran the hostel in Santiago had massive Magellanes flags all over the place.

I'm happy with my teams, even if they are an odd bunch, and I never actually follow anything about them.

[Platypus]

Very sad.  The Blue Whales were defeated tonight.

Blue Whales:  0            Fireballs:  1

Sadder still is the fact that Hannah Montana was injured.  By my son.  Her own teammate. 

Saddest of all is that he was dicking around when it happened.  Swinging from the goal during water-bottle break and accidentally kicked her in the head.  Ah, she'll be okay, but it probably cost them the game. 

I had him apologize, and he has lost his TV and bicycle privileges for two days.  Hopefully this won't happen again. 

The blue flag flies at half mast tonight. 

I once got smashed in the head by a (field) hockey stick by a teammate. About 100m from the ball. I was around 10, and she was swinging around the stick, and it hit me pretty strongly, I had a fair lump. She was my sister. Bitch.