Those England flags

Try the U S of A.

Kids play it at school, and there have been several attempts at professional soccer leagues, but it's never really caught on.

Whoever wins Euro 2004 next Sunday, there will be serious street partying in Toronto, which has major Greek and Portuguese communities. The party will be on either Danforth Avenue or College Street.

"Gregory Procter" wrote

John.

Who?

Who? Difference to what? Can I go back to sleep now?

Surely Canadian Football (as in the thing with helmets, padding and throwing a ball, which was being shown in pubs when they weren't showing ice hockey players beating each other up) isn't called Association Football as well, is it?

"Arthur Figgis"

Canadian's play "hockey", not "ice hockey"! :-)

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

That's no good, I've just got back from the Maldives (yes, it was wonderful - Honeymoon) and the staff - Maldivian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Japanese and French (well, those were the ones I spoke to) - didn't seem to stop talking about Euro 2004.

Sorry to disappoint you.

Justin.

Canadian's what? :)

I was more specific to avoid anyone playing on the UK/CA difference in terminology.

No, that's the CFL. The season runs from June to October, with the Grey Cup final in November. You can't play football in 3ft of snow.

It's about time they built some stadiums (stadia?) with overall roofs, instead of trying to play in open fields.

They have those in Toronto and Calgary, but not in Edmonton or Winnipeg, which are truly the Great White North. The Montreal Alouettes changed their name to Concorde and moved to the covered Olympic Stadium, but that started to fall apart so they moved back to their hilltop open McGill Stadium and changed their name back to the Alouettes.