Long ago, some of us mooted the possibility of a fight to death using nothing but predictive skill, knowledge and time commitment. Over the course of the past year, those mighty warriors who displayed exemplary ability in these skills have persevered to win the day.

It may have come to certain of our members' attention that, with the defeat of our Association Football collective at the hands of the Tsarists, England are in grave danger of not qualifying for next year's European Championships in the Austro-Swissenland.

In this brief pamphlet, we seek to advance the thesis that this may, in fact, be no bad thing.

Bit disappointed actually.

Germany's playing Italy tonight which means no one will shut the hell up about the game. Most people are dressed in the national colours (and combinations of red, black and gold/yellow really make the haute couture designers cream their jeans). Little work is getting, even less here in the Cube of Hate^® due to interruptions and general prattling on from my cow-orkers along with idiocy from IT.

Most of the talk centered around the fact that Torsten Frings is banned from tonight's game for supposedly hitting an Argentine after the match was over. Except every damned photo and video shows him defending himself from a hit by an Argentine player. See for yourself.

Like I care about footie.

x-posted to the blog sans poll.

Much to the chagrin of those who care nothing for football, the world cup proper kicks off in quarter of an hour.

# We've on-ly just be-guuuuun ...

Inside: FREE unofficial HuSi world cup draw chart.

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It's a'Fooccer!