Rugby v Soccer

Having watched two rugby internationals last night and the Italy-USA football match this morning, you cannot help but compare the two codes.

If these sports were war movies, Rugby is "Platoon" and Soccer is "MASH". The number of times the stretchers came onto the field to remove supposedly critically-injured players, only for these wounded to majically jump to their feet and continue did remind me of the Korean War comedy classic. While rugby players who have their brains knocked sometime into next week just get up and soldier manfully on.

If I said one of these games had three players sent from the field, which one would you choose?

A couple of weeks ago our NZ soccer captain demanded more respect for the football code. It would be easier to do so if the players involved actually played the game rather than auditioning for movie roles.

And while on the subject of humour (which I class football as), I came across this pisstake on blogging which I found rather amusing. Apparently I'm in the minority - others have found it childish and churlish. Lighten up.

And Xman from Pandasport has a nice joke as a signature which I haven't seen before:

A guy asked me to take part in a charity run. I said "Piss off". He said "Go on, it's for blind and spastic kids". I thought "F**k, I could win this".