Sunday Football Funnies: Barack Obama 10,000-1 to Coach West Ham United & More

My vacation is ending. I'm not laughing

Maybe these will help.

This one is weird, - but true.

The main character of the Get Fuzzy comic strip is a rugby fan - it shows.

And the following were e-mailed to me a couple of months back and I've been looking for an excuse to blog them ever since:

After a visit to the doctor, the local team's striker dropped in to his local pub for a quick one. "What's up mate?" asked his friend Brian, "you look worried."
"I am," Alan replied. "I've just been to the doctor and he told me I can't play football."
"Oh, really?" said Brian. "He's seen you play too then, has he?"

An American visitor to England watched his very first football match in the middle of winter and was struck by the differences between English and American football.
After the match he struck up a conversation with one of the English players and said, "You know, over in the States, our players wear thick protective clothing. You guys must be frozen stiff in those light clothes."
"It's not so bad," said the Englishman. "Sometimes the ground is covered in snow."
"Wow!' exclaimed the American. "What do you do about the balls? Paint them red?"
"Oh, no," said the player. "We just wear an extra pair of underwear."

The top scorer of a Premier League team was tragically killed in a car accident. Seeing an opportunity for glory, the reserve striker went to see the manager.
"How about me taking his place?" he asked.
"Well, I'm not sure about that," said the manager, "we'll have to speak to the undertaker first."

The Devil was constantly challenging St. Peter to a game of soccer, but St. Peter refused, until one day while walking around heaven he discovered that quite a number of international footballers had entered the "pearly gates".
"I think I'll arrange to play that soccer game," said St. Peter to the Devil. "We have a great number of international soccer stars in heaven at the moment from which to select a winning team."
"You'll lose, you'll lose!" taunted the Devil.
"What makes you so sure we'll lose?" enquired St Peter.
"Because," laughed the Devil, we have all the referees down here."

A woman in Van Nuys was reading the Daily News one morning and said to her husband - "Look at this, dear. There's an article here about a man who traded his wife for a Galaxy season ticket. You wouldn't do a thing like that, - would you?"
"Of course I wouldn't!' replied her husband. "The season's almost over!"

Quotable:

"Soccer is a game in which a handful of fit people run around for one and a half hours watched by millions of others who could really use the exercise." - Anonymous.