This is crazy. Its pure madness. The World cup craze fever has just rose a few degrees, and there are some individuals getting their brains fried over the world cup.
Below is an article i had just happened to come across.
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Man pulls TV from house fire to watch match
Thu, Jun 29, 2:00 PM
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing football fan refused to let the small matter of his house burning down disturb his enjoyment of Tuesday's World Cup match between France and Spain.
A fire broke out in a hutong in the centre of the Chinese capital at 3am local time on Wednesday -- kickoff time in Hanover -- and gutted the traditional courtyard dwelling, the Beijing Daily Messenger reported.
"When the neighbours shouted 'fire!', I took my little baby and ran out in my nightclothes," the man's wife told the paper.
"My husband paid no attention to the danger, just grabbed the television and put it under his arm.
"After getting out of the house, he then set about finding an electric socket to plug in and continue watching his game."
The anti-social timing of the matches broadcast from Germany, which is six hours behind China, has forced some Chinese fans to go to great lengths to follow the action.
One man quit his job in Beijing to return to his hometown Chongqing so he could watch the whole tournament uninterrupted.
State news agency Xinhua reported that the 23-year-old's boss at the IT company had offered him a pay rise, but he turned it down flat, saying the World Cup was more important than his job.
The Guangzhou Daily reported that local police were forced to release a thief arrested for stealing a mobile phone when the victim refused to press charges because he did not want to miss the start of a match.
Although there are also many female World Cup fans in China, one man in the southeastern city had to sign a contract with his wife agreeing to do all the housework during the month of the finals so he could watch the matches at night.
Another from Putian, Fujian province, took a less diplomatic approach, Xinhua reported.
When his cheers during the Argentina-Ivory Coast match woke his wife and she switched off the television, he locked her in their bedroom and settled back down to watch the game ignoring her loud protests.
http://asia.worldcup.yahoo.com/worldcup/article//060629/3/2mil2.html
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What has this world gone to?? How come there are some sane people who turn insane once in 4 years?
Soccer Fans out there, please forgive me in saying this, but i feel that World Cup is not the greatest sporting event in the world. Olympics is. Olympics involved all kinds of sports, from shooting, to swimming, to track and fields etc etc. It involves indoor to outdoor. Soccer is only about 20 men running after a ball, 2 man posed to catch the ball, 3 fellows running around, but cannot touch the ball.
True, soccer is exciting, but so is basketball, volleyball, and other ball games, (but not golf, a game which i never understand).
Talking about ball games, i got a little joke to share with you all.
Imagine a manufacturing company.
The employees (production operators) will prob play soccer during their spare time.
The Supervisors, Managers will prob play tennis during their spare time.
The Directors will prob spend time in a game of golf during their spare time.
What's the moral of this joke?
- The higher you climb up the ladder of a career, your balls get smaller.
Hmmm.... What about me? Most ball games i play are pool (consist of 16 balls) and bowling (a heavy ball).
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