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Originally Posted by Trollheart
It was news because it was one of the biggest sporting upsets in history. It would be like if Liechtenstein (yeah I'm not checking the spelling) won the World Cup or, I don't know, Indiana won the World Series? Who knows? The point is, that no matter how much you want to pretend it wasn't, Jansz, it was huge news, all around the world. I watched Sky News the day after the title was won and I was amazed at how many languages it was being reported in, and how many cities, countries, places that you would think wouldn't give a curse about football.
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You live in Ireland and the story happened within a spud gun's distance of you. You have no idea what is on our news. And if Liechtenstein won the World Cup we would never hear of it.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
When was this? Being reported on a major news network isn't exactly indicative of something being a household name.
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My guess is it was a two-minute backup story on a Tuesday afternoon. I hate to break it to Monkey but I have literally never had or seen a legit soccer conversation in America. We do not care. I don't know where your statistics are coming from but I doubt they reflect reality. My guess is that your soccer news sites or whatever really want everyone to think that people like soccer.