Tuesday, August 23. 2005
Why can't they just form a straight line in front of the goal post?
A third-division provincial girls football team entered the annals of Belgian soccer on Saturday after suffering a crushing 50-1 defeat because of the absence of a single but crucial player: their music-loving goalkeeper.
SK Berlaar's goal was left unguarded in a match with FC Malines after its goalie opted instead to go to a rock festival, Het Laatste Nieuws reported Monday.
"Kick-off, move upfield and in it goes. That was repeated without a halt. At half-time, it was already 27-to-0," the Flemish newspaper said, describing how 16-year-old Charlotte Jacobs tried in vain to defend the goal in the absence of the usual goal-keeper.
"We came back in the second half. We only took 23 goals and we even made one at the end. They let us score, that was nice," the teenager said.... yahoo
She is HOT. Alphademon, go and save her. Sell everything you have. Save her!
"Australians, I would have thought, through the Schapelle Corby case and the Bali nine case, would know that you want to keep drugs right away from places like Indonesia . . . and for that matter, South-East Asia more generally.
"We've got an Australian on death row in Singapore for drug trafficking.
"We've got two Australians and an Australian resident on death row in Vietnam for drug trafficking, we've got the Schapelle Corby case, we've got the Bali nine case."
Legal experts said Ms Leslie could escape a trial if she secured a top lawyer.
If the matter does reach court, Ms Leslie, who was on holiday in Bali with friends after working in Singapore, will likely face charges of drug possession that carry a maximum jail term of 10 years under tough Indonesian anti-narcotics laws.
But a Bali police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she would more likely face a punishment similar to another Adelaide person, John Julian Pyle, who earlier this month escaped with a relatively light five-month jail term for using hashish.... theage
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Listening to: Underworld - King of Snake
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