#7

There are cricket and rugby world cups which are essentially empire games. So chill the fuck out saps, or I smack you down, pal!

#8

Fixed that for you.

#9
  • cuba
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#10

looking forward to the shinty world championship next year.

think scotland could do well.

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#11

Hmm. You already said Cuba. Carry on.

#12

Thought so.

#13

you didn’t fix the space in between ‘no’ and ‘body’

#14

Yeah, I know. I discovered this about ten years ago in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhAWaZUfdw. They say it at 1:00. I was so shocked I’ve not been able to mention it till now.

#15

Neither of those are real sports.

#16

Shit sport, bloody love a triumph like this though, it’s fucking brilliant.

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#17

Thought everyone knew it is not named after the world as in the planet

#18

There’s no proof that it isn’t. If you’re talking about the World newspaper, that’s not necessarily true.

And “world champions” still kind of implies something, no?

#19

Noone cares

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#20

I stand corrected

#21

Interesting point - Back to the Future 2 was only one year out on the Cubs winning the “World Series”. One of their more successful predictions, even if it was mostly lost on British people.

#22

the only actually global sports are tennis and football, everything else needs to take a long hard look at itself

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#23

And South Korea. And several other Caribbean nations.

#24

golf maaaaaaaan

#25

too dominated by americans, guess it’s 3rd though

#26

Plus I saw some blokes playing baseball in Eaton Park in Norwich.

The list goes on.