Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

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Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby tclviii-dyalog on Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:43 am

While you only really love the sports that you played as a kid, (and I certainly didn't play soccer); even I have an interest in the allegorical drama of this particular matchup.

... After all England versus Denmark? How could there NOT be a Dyalog Zoom gathering?
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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby AndyS|Dyalog on Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:37 am

Football, Tony, football !!

You can be sure there will be several ad-hoc internal meetings called on Thursday morning, ostensibly about Dyalog APL, but in reality a chance for some free and frank discussions about the match and the result.

We also got Wimbledon this week, a one day international between England and Pakistan (England are having to field a complete replacement cricket team) and of course the ongoing Tour de France, so plenty of other sport to discuss and to agree/disagree on.
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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby tclviii-dyalog on Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:52 pm

>AndyS|Dyalog wrote:

>Football, Tony, football

Don't blame me for calling it soccer, blame Oxbridge
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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby petermsiegel on Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:45 pm

And just for a bit of football culture you might not expect...

Here on the left coast of North America, we have the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), a professional team that plays out of a purpose-built football (soccer) stadium. Games, which are well attended, are broadcast live in English and Spanish, of course.

It's part of a professional league confusingly called MLS (Major League Soccer), which includes US and Canadian clubs. It has a way to go in world rankings, but (if attendance and sponsorship keep up) check back in 20 years.
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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby tclviii-dyalog on Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:56 pm

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if "soccer" is good enough for Jimmy Hill it's good enough for me
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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby Morten|Dyalog on Wed Jul 07, 2021 8:19 am

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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby tclviii-dyalog on Wed Jul 07, 2021 6:55 pm

Finding a pair of Nantucket reds for yesterday's Italy versus Spain game was easy, getting green sneakers to match the green shirt was hard



Today's team colors were easy
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Re: Surely, a Zoom meeting on Wednesday?

Postby Morten|Dyalog on Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:49 am

Well, what an entertaining game! It's good when the best team is also the luckiest, so you get a "fair" result, as far as that term ever makes sense in team sports with a referee, even a computer assisted one ;-).

Well done England!

I fear we'll be cheering for opposite sides on Sunday, Tony!
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