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2010-03-01 India-Pakistan

Pakistan hockey team blasted for losing to India

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Posted by ryuge 2010-03-01 06:33|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 They play hockey in Pakistan? Whoda thunk it?

Posted by Mike 2010-03-01 08:36|| 2010-03-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 When they get home, the headline could take on an entire new meaning.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-01 08:39|| 2010-03-01 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 FIeld hockey, Mike. The two nations are the powers in that sport.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-03-01 09:09|| 2010-03-01 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 As if their national sovereignty and manhoods depended on winning.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-01 09:50|| 2010-03-01 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 They play hockey in Pakistan? Whoda thunk it?

Field hockey. It is played on a grass surface, players run instead of skate and have no body armor so charges like in ice hokey are forbidden (you could say that it is to ice hockey what soccer is to rugby or to football). Afaik, India and Pakistan trust the World champion titles.

Posted by JFM 2010-03-01 09:54|| 2010-03-01 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 When they get home, the headline could take on an entire new meaning.

The funny thing si that lately hockey and cricket pakistanese teams, ie THE two sports were Pakistan is a world power and thus sources of national pride, have been increasingly politicized or more exactly religiocized with players of religious minorities alongside with unobservant Muslims being excluded of the team . Rationale was that a 100% dyed in the wool Muslim team would please Allan and he would handle victory to Pakista,.

Posted by JFM 2010-03-01 10:04|| 2010-03-01 10:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess Allan likes Pakistain as much as the rest of us

Posted by chris 2010-03-01 10:40|| 2010-03-01 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Someone needs to take up the slack since the S. Hussein clan is no longer torturing olympic athletes...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-03-01 12:32|| 2010-03-01 12:32|| Front Page Top

#9 They play hockey in Pakistan? Whoda thunk it?

I'm a big fan of the Karachi Maple Leafs.

Posted by Fred 2010-03-01 13:11|| 2010-03-01 13:11|| Front Page Top

#10 The recent Pakistani cricket captain converted from christian to muslim 3 or 4 years ago. It didn't help them, they still got thumped by Australia this summer, losing every game.

Hockey is perhaps the oldest organized sport. Popularity grew during the Middle Ages until so many people were playing field hockey that the game was banned in England because it kept people from training in archery, which was at that time the foundation of the countrys defense.

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-01 14:09|| 2010-03-01 14:09|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess Allan likes Pakistain as much as the rest of us

Given the sorry state of the Muslim world, Allan apparently has it in for his people. I really think he is Loki in disguise. Suckers!

Posted by SteveS 2010-03-01 15:12|| 2010-03-01 15:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Toque/Turban...no diff

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-01 15:50|| 2010-03-01 15:50|| Front Page Top

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