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"Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:FyrArs.IA9@lugnet.com... (...) Hence, also, the popularity of cricket, a game which _definitely_ needs a lot of space to avoid the window-smashing deal. :) david drew (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.sports)
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I remember reading a history of soccer that attributed the popularity of the game to the fact that it could be played on any patch of waste ground or street without the risk of injury, unlike other sports which required the use of a proper playing (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.sports)
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With Rugby, League and AFL (1), the ball is in the players hands for most of the time. So I don't see how it can be called Football. Call me picky but I use the term football or "footie" to mean exactly that: Game played with the foot. Bear in mind (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: New newsgroup lugnet.sports for Football/Soccer
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"Casper van Nimwegen" <neverroads@soneramail.nl> wrote in message news:Fyr5yx.H6t@lugnet.com... (...) There are many sports which feature contact between the foot and the ball. In Australia, the popular foot-and-ball sports are historically rugby (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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As far as I know it, the game is called Football in England, Fußbal in Germany and where I'm from, The Netherlands, voetbal Most countries use the term football... so why not the rest of the world? Whytcross, Benjamin <BWhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au> (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Good question that. They are not in the Expansion pack 3410, and they don't look like they'd be from 3401 (which I don't have yet). Initially I thought that graphic was representing stuff that was left over from putting the 3 packs together (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.sports)
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| | Re: Quidditch, soccor 2 (WARNING:explains about quiddich from harry potter)
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Nick We could give it a try. In the castle set we have the sorting hat, robes. In some of the town sets we have brooms?. As far as the snitch could be a bit of gold tree from some of the sets which have gold lego. The Quaffle not sure. Bludger could (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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With the upcoming harry potter theme, does anyone think there will be a quidditch field something like the lego soccer fields? In the book, if I remember correctly, there are some people who hit the ball into goals (could be made with normal soccer (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports)
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