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Re: Football on Monday, January 27th at noon

 

On 01/23/2014 06:54 AM, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> Just to clarify, this is football, not the sport that some of you in
> America play which confusingly bears the same name.
> 
> While we're here, it's the pavement, not a sidewalk, you walk under a
> road through a subway but take the tube from Heathrow, and you had
> better line up your knife and fork on your plate when you're done
> eating.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On 23 January 2014 14:36, Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Every Monday at noon a few of us play football at a pitch five minutes
>> from the office for our lunch break. If you want to join in on the
>> first day of the sprint, please do let me know as soon as you can.
>> Should be a great way to shake off that jet lag.
>>
>> If you don't own a pair of astro trainers, running shoes will do fine.
>> There are showers in the basement of Bluefin, but you'll need to bring
>> your own towel and soap.
>>
>> Please do share this email on with anyone you think would be
>> interested in attending.
>>
>> Cheers!

In the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society,
the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. So, do *not* go blaming us
because you folks don't know what you call your own sport, sport.

-- 
Brad Figg brad.figg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canonical.com


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