Football fans

[Amy Z]

Catherine wrote:

> Oh come on Amy, we're not that bad! <g>.  What you really have to 
be 
> careful of is England/Germany matches or even England/Turkey 
matches 
> after last year's fiasco.  I am not defending the English 
hooligans, 
> but it is a very small minority.  These people aren't even football 
> fans - they just go along to incite

Oh, I know.  These things seem to become traditions in certain places 
with certain groups of troublemakers--e.g. why do certain U.S. cities 
have riots after basketball championships while others, just as 
troubled in their day-to-day existences, don't?
 
> Anyway, to the point...
> Gazza is the nickname of Paul Gascoigne.  

Sounds like a sad character.  It puts me in mind of my own beloved 
Doc Gooden, wunderkind pitcher for the Mets in the 80's, the collapse 
of whose personal life might be what sent him downhill as a player 
too.  He's a journeyman pitcher now, nothing to sneeze at but never 
coming anywhere close to his performance of 24-4 in 1985.  That under-
2 ERA . . . those 15-strikeout games . . . I'll shut up now before 
the baseball haters start throwing tomatoes.

Amy Z