etwas verspätet, aber egal:

Of the handful of totally incompetent teams at the World Cup, God Bless America is the one the Fiver likes best. Because it was Bruce Arena's butcher boys who put Point 1 of the Fiver's Football Manifesto into practice. To wit: "Since the merest whiff of contact will cause Italians to hurl themselves to the ground claiming to have been brutally fouled, you might as well brutally foul them. Constantly."

und:

NEWS IN BRIEF White-coated boffins from John Moores University in Liverpool have discovered the scientific formula for taking the perfect penalty: (((X + Y + S) / 2) x ((T + I + 2B) / 4)) + (V/2) -1. Yesterday, Mexico's Omar Bravo mistook the middle I for a 1. The fool.