Special thanks to the Gentleman on the right for his help in this weekend's upcoming Podcast, Letter to America - Chapter 40 - World Cup Fever; (photo taken at the wonderful Clements Coffee on Botanic Avenue here in Belfast, Northern Ireland).
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Does he have a cure for the fever?
Posted by: Phil | June 16, 2006 at 09:44 AM
The fever appears to be incurable. I work in an office of people, and the disease appears to be contagious.
Posted by: Dave | June 16, 2006 at 02:56 PM
Not here. Americans, I believe, receive innoculations at birth, so as not to get the fever.
Posted by: Phil | June 16, 2006 at 03:31 PM
That's no 'gentleman' (in the photo) - that's an owl in a pea-green suit!
Posted by: Chris | June 17, 2006 at 06:10 AM
Could the fever be so severe that the subject of the world cup won't be mentioned - for fear of relapse?
Posted by: Alan in Belfast | June 17, 2006 at 02:18 PM
Phil - the difference between Americans and the English/Europeans ....
Americans receive innoculations at birth, and then receive continual mis-information on what "Football" actually means.
(and I'm sat here watching the USA playing the world cup????)
Posted by: Dave | June 17, 2006 at 03:02 PM
Yes Dave, you are correct, except that mis-information is the No. 1 game in America. It comes before anything else...
Posted by: Jefferson Davis | June 17, 2006 at 05:46 PM
Well the fever has got me held tightly in its vice-like grip...to the extent that I've been blogging the tournament for the last 9 days:
http://www.fustar.org/category/world-cup/
Some fabulous stuff so far (particularly from Argentina) but I'm afraid I found the US's overly 'muscular' style tonight a bit of a turn off.
Looking forward to the knock-out stages as most of the 'big guns' should be there (unlike 4 years ago).
Posted by: fústar | June 17, 2006 at 07:57 PM