The good ol' boys give the world champions a scare

[Evenmydoghatesunited]

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/911651-espn-confuse-georgia-the-country-with-georgia-the-american-state

My wife's a septic and she didn't see this as odd at all. I had to show her an atlas before she believed there was a country' to use her own words "named after one of the states of America". AND she's a graduate FFS.

[SteveHPage]

Give her some antibiotics then. These things have a habit to get worse if untreated. You may need to amputate her ;)

[Alex Sapphire]

Presumably she thinks you support a team from Manchester, New Hampshire

[Chinners]

Thick ESPN cents ...

[PeterParker]

I left my home in Georgia, headed for the 'Frisco bay...

[Michigan Blue]

AND she's a graduate FFS.

University of Phoenix Online doesn't count, mate.

[Michigan Blue]

Michigan beat Wales 2-0 last night and we still have Alexi Lalas in our starting XI.

[Slim]

I thought this link http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/9 ... -get-bored was better.

[Original Dub]

Thick ESPN cents ...

Chinners why are you putting the word "cents" into every single post you make? I know I'm a part timer these days so maybe I missed something?

Did you promise you would never say cunts again? Very confused.

[Tokyo Blue]

Thick ESPN cents ...

Chinners why are you putting the word "cents" into every single post you make? I know I'm a part timer these days so maybe I missed something?

Did you promise you would never say cunts again? Very confused.

It is just the way they speak down south.

[Original Dub]

Oh right. I only noticed him doing it recently and wasn't going to say anyfink but it wae beginning to affect me.

Cheers

[Slim]

I thought it was "cants" down there.

[Tokyo Blue]

I thought it was "cants" down there.

Among the common types yes. Among the toffs it's a bit different.

[Florida Blue]

I'll make is simple.. when I was growing up there was the USSR and no reference to the nation-states/ethnic homelands etc contained there, the same with Yugoslavia. So that doesn't surprise me. Heck, I knew about South Georgia Island because of the Malvinas..err Falkland crisis before I heard of the Republic of Georgia. It is sad, but it is what was taught, and doesn't surprise me, The Western Hemisphere is/was? our hegemony, the east be damned....

[Nigels Tackle]

i have just noticed that a team from the capital of georgia play in serie a...

really confused now