Pray for Muamba (or any other person that's been fucked over)

[Napoléon]

Pardon me for being an American and not giving a shit about the 2nd most boring sport on the planet, but who the fuck is Fabrice Muamba????

I did say if you don't know who he is to go and find out

[Anomalocaris]

Indeed, pray to the same god that made Maumba's heart stop in the first place, so that any brain damage Muamba suffered in 78 minutes of no heartbeat would be all like a big joke played by benevolent god upon Maumba.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

. Dead for about 80 minutes?

Dead? By what definition? After 3 minutes with no oxygen,severe brain damage occurs. After 80 minutes he would be a veggie.

I don't think soccer is the second most boring game on earth. That honour goes to baseball. Cricket is first; the only game where I actually fell asleep whilst playing.

[Minimalist]

Someone must have been doing CPR on him, right? Otherwise he'd be brain dead and fit only for the republicunt nomination.

[Cinjin]

. Dead for about 80 minutes?

Dead? By what definition? After 3 minutes with no oxygen,severe brain damage occurs. After 80 minutes he would be a veggie.

I don't think soccer is the second most boring game on earth. That honour goes to baseball. Cricket is first; the only game where I actually fell asleep whilst playing.

Well we're not too far off the mark. I think baseball (an American invention, I know) is far and away the #1 most boring sport in the history of the planet.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Well we're not too far off the mark. I think baseball (an American invention, I know) is far and away the #1 most boring sport in the history of the planet.

Robin Williams once [accurately] described cricket as ''baseball on valium"

Here in Australia,we also have Australian rules football,not to be confused with Soccer,Rugby or Gridiron.

Loosely base on Gaelic football, the rules are quite simple (fortunately for the mono brow,no neck knuckle draggers who play): You kick the ball if and only if you cannot kick the man.

Because the players refuse to wear any of that girly padding,there are a gratifying number of serious injuries,but sadly, fatalities are rare.

PS Have you actually watched game of cricket? (without once falling asleep)

[5thHorseman]

First things first, soccer is FOOTBALL. American Football should be called Rugby for pussies and hairdressers.

Football is also the most popular game on the planet, by some distance. It sure beats American Football games which seems to have more ads and stoppages then action. And ffs, do they even do drug testing on them?

I still love American Football though

[Norfolk And Chance]

I don't, it's complete shit.

Unlike real football, which actually involves a foot and a ball.

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I thought we were past all this prayer helps bullshit here.

That's what makes me laugh. Shit loads of people on my facebook, people who aren't even religious, are plastering my news feed with "Let's all pray for Muamba". People just jump on the bandwagon to make themselves feel self righteous.

Was all over twitter, and I made comment along the lines of "praying is pointless, lets all hope for Muamba". I sadly only got 2 retweets.

[Chuff]

This really does piss me off, 'Pray for Muamba' was the headline on the newspaper the other day - I inadvertantly GRRRR'd through gritted teeth when I saw it and got a strange look off the woman next to me...

4 years ago when micro chuff was born, mrs chuff had big problems and developed a rare but dangerous condition called AFE - After a very scary couple of weeks, both baby and mother eventually made a full recovery.

Due to the high mortality rate, the support forum for this is called AFE 'survivors', of which Mrs Chuff is a member... The place is jam packed full of christians, praising god for the miracle, praising jesus for saving them, praising and praying left right and centre.

It makes me sick

My wife and child are only still here today because of the TEAM(there was up to 10 people working on her at times in that night) of highly dedicated professionals who have invested YEARS of their life learning the skills to enable them to make the right call at the right time to make the difference.

I find it completely offensive that these fuckheads attribute any of their good fortune to anything other than these people.

These people are my miracle, my savior and the only thing worthy of praise.





oh, and yes football is football - The beautiful game

[Napoléon]

. Dead for about 80 minutes?

Dead? By what definition? After 3 minutes with no oxygen,severe brain damage occurs. After 80 minutes he would be a veggie.

Well his heart stopped for about 80 minutes. I'm not a doctor so I guess I can't actually say that he was dead, but I thought that if you're heart stopped beating for 80 minutes you're as good as.

Then again, thinking about it, there are people who's hearts stop beating when they sleep. Yet they still wake up. Hmm, I don't really know.

Either way he was pretty fucked.

Doctors revive him after trying all that time, but the main reason attributed to his revival is god. Absolute joke.


As for "soccer" as you yanks seem to call it.

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Here in Australia,we also have Australian rules football

I tell you, I've seen some of this, it's fucking brutal. Some of the hits these guys take are insane. Far worse than anything in rugby or American football from what I've seen.