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April 11, 2005
Putting the "rot" in Protestant
SI.com - Soccer - Soccer fans in Scotland jeer pope - Sunday April 10, 2005 4:35PM
I'm the first to admit that I don't understand soccer fandom. (For one thing, I don't understand why anyone watches soccer in the first place. I guess that there's a lack of new paint you can watch dry in your soccer-oriented countries.) Booing the Pope because you're largely Protestant and your rivals are mostly Catholic seems stupid even by the standards of soccer fandom.
Posted by Mac Thomason at April 11, 2005 12:21 PM
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I think it's a European thing, considering the history of Catholicism and Protestantism over there. That doesn't make it any better, but there you go.
Posted by: Paul at April 11, 2005 01:46 PM
Well, for starters, Scotland used to be part of Ireland way back when. This is a direct correlation to the Protestant Anti-Catholic stance. Also, soccer is a fast-moving sport with interesting strategies -- some of the rules are similiar to hockey. Although, minus the legal fighting.
Posted by: catherine at April 11, 2005 05:45 PM