England V Sweeden
Posted 20th June 2006 at 10:42pm by M1ke, tagged as Sport | Commenting Closed
93:37 - Game Over - Score: 2-2.
We went into this match with one thing known - loose, and we play Germany in the Last 16. No way did we want that and we got the result we needed to make sure it doesn't happen - a nice old draw. It was looking good when we scored the opener (Joe Cole) but they equalised at the start of the second half (a Sweedish guy... probably) and we were fighting again. We did well and put another one past (Steven Gerrard) and it was looking like a win until they slipped another past us at the 89th minute (Larsson - see, I know at least two Swedes in that game). Nothing more than that but we won and play Ecuador - and I'm hoping we win that one too, obviously. More excuses to go to the pub with mates are appreciated during the exam period.
- Link to SI.com, Sweden vs England
Football Robots
Posted 14th June 2006 at 4:46pm by M1ke, tagged as Sport | Commenting Closed
A football tournament played by teams of robots has kicked off in Germany.
Definately an interesting prospect and with less grunting sweaty men - though probably with more nerdy fat men - the Robot Football World Cup has begun in Germany. Their basic aim is to have a team which can compete with and beat the World Cup winners by 2050. Whilst it sounds like a long time in the future it sure will be interesting to see the advances, and it shows uses for robots in areas other than making cars for lazy parents to pick their fat kids up from school half a mile away. Sorry for the digression but I've just done a crappy General Studies A2 paper and am still fired up.
Back to the robots though and I just want to point out one quote from the article which should so be taken out of context.
the current world champions from Germany are a force to be reckoned with in the four-legged tournament.
So true...