italy france 3-39 we tried to outnumber the french crowd but were 1 man short. the italian squad tried to give their best but failed in the standards. when the replacement front row and troncon came on in the 2nd half, it got a bit better, but was to late to turn it around.

england scotland 42-20 the islanders arrived and we had a crowd of 30-40 rugby fans up there. scotland wanted it so bad, but made too many errors that england could use by letting wilkinson kick. he really is back, impressive play, with all the blood on his face and stuff. not what i wanted to see but an interesting match.

now i'm sitting on my sofa watching soccer on telly, sipping on my becks and preparing for tomorrow (4pm), wales vs ireland. i also found some leek in the fridge to bring to the pub tomorrow.

www.johnny-b-goode-s.sportkneipe.de

(if you don't like my grammar go and read some bbc-website)

"Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park.

“There will be nothing but baseball and football down there as long as I am mayor,” Lee Swaney, a retired owner of a heating and air-conditioning business, told the local paper. “Those fields weren’t made for soccer.”

In Clarkston, soccer means something different than in most places. As many as half the residents are refugees from war-torn countries around the world. Placed by resettlement agencies in a once mostly white town, they receive 90 days of assistance from the government and then are left to fend for themselves. Soccer is their game.

But to many longtime residents, soccer is a sign of unwanted change, as unfamiliar and threatening as the hijabs worn by the Muslim women in town. It’s not football. It’s not baseball. The fields weren’t made for it. Mayor Swaney even has a name for the sort of folks who play the game: the soccer people."

the "soccer people" of clarkston, georgia

Saturday 3rd February 2007 14:30 England vs Scotland - Old Albanians RFC (St Albans) 14:30 Wales vs Ireland - Taffs Well RFC (Cardiff) Sunday 4th February 2007 14:30 Italy vs France - La Marmora (Biella) Saturday 10th February 2007 14:30 Ireland vs France - St Mary's RFC (Dublin) 16:15 England vs Italy - Twickenham 13:00 Scotland vs Wales - Boroughmuir RFC (Edinburgh) Saturday 24th February 2007 12:30 Scotland vs Italy - Boroughmuir RFC (Edinburgh) 13:30 France vs Wales - Le Stade Guy Moquet a Drancy (Paris) Sunday 25th February 2007 14:00 Ireland vs England - Thomond Park (Limerick) Saturday 10th March 2007 11:00 Scotland vs Ireland - Boroughmuir RFC (Edinburgh) Sunday 11th March 2007 12:30 Italy vs Wales - Rome 13:45 England vs France - Old Albanians RFC (St Albans) Saturday 17th March 2007 11:30 Italy vs Ireland - Tre Fontane (Rome) 14:30 Wales vs England - Taffs Well RFC (Cardiff) Sunday 18th March 2007 15:00 France vs Scotland - Stade le Bout du Clos (Paris)