It's all about the Diamonds

[statto]

I support Rushden and Diamonds, and in NSS3 I am willing to do whatever it took to get them as far as I could.

Our first year we stuggled but in the next year we gained promotion from the League Two to the League One (why can't you just say Third to Second) and subsequently from the Second to the First.

Early in the career I started off slowly and had to face options of being transferred into the Conference for a very low sum or to keep going with the Diamonds. I had decided not to transfer.

I also picked the 205th FIFA Country - Montserrat - as my home country. I quickly found my way into the national team in about the second season.

The first division proved a little harder but we still swept our way up into the Premiership thanks to me and our 17-year old regen striker Hugh Evans.

Once the Premership came around, I moved up the difficulty level so to not breeze through the competition and struggled a bit more, but ended up finishing fourth over the long campaign and making the Champions League.

While the CL came and went with a devastating 4-3 extra time loss to Seville in the final, Montserrat were gearing up for their first ever world cup despite only having four full time players on the squad.

We beat Spain in a close encounter but after two games everyone was 1-0-1 and we had to beat Croatia to go through and win the group... with me on the bench.

Fortunately that happened and we got through to the round of 16.

The Czech Republic got up quickly because our defense was quite shoddy, so I started playing end to end. As a result, we tied it.

In the 80th the Czechs scored again. After getting and controlling the ball, and despite my energy levels being quite low, I knew in the 89th that only I could send the game into extra time.

The shot sailed - right into the back of the net.

The manager was forced to substitute for me however which left Montserrat looking like they'd lost their head in extra time and the Czech Republic won the game 4-3, eliminating us from the competition.

Rushden finished an injury plagued season seventh, but this year would be different.

First, Montserrat has an easy preliminary qualifying group. We've already beat Barbados 6-0 and it's looking like our first CONCACAF Cup could be in order soon.

On the league front, after 20 games we lead Charlton on the top of the table by two points and just creamed Sunderland 4-1 at home, our next closest opponent. Could this be Rushden's year? Finally?

[Chas]

Our first year we stuggled but in the next year we gained promotion from the League Two to the League One (why can't you just say Third to Second) and subsequently from the Second to the First.Technically before the Premier League split from the rest of the Football League in 1992, League Two was Division FOUR, and League One was Division Three :P

There's a Rushden street in Brooklyn, but no Diamonds :(
Interestingly enough, there is a Gravesend Avenue, and a Northfleet Avenue, but they don't cross...anyway...

Keep it up!

[AfterDeath]

Wow, nice career. I like the ones where you choose the low boys, although I can find them a bit tiresome because of the other players' poor stats.

[statto]

It's really frustrating because you can't rely on your team, you have to the ball to get anything done.

Oh, Rushden now has Morientes and Cech, but they don't do much :)

[statto]

We go up against West Brom thanks to a goal by yours truly but I get too drunk and have to sit out the Reading match.

We tie Reading and win our next two on the trot before we pull into Charlton. If we win here we'll be six ahead of the nearest.

I start the scoring in the rain by putting us up 1-0. Charlton answers right back and makes it 1-1, so I run down and make it 2-1 at the half.

Charlton then score two more goals in the rain! Our defense is completely shoddy, not in the least because two of the original Rushden & Diamondsers is playing - and his stats show it.

I tie it up at 3-3 but then Charlton shoot, our goalie saves it but they score the rebound!

In the 84th I have a chance to tie the game but I hoof it. I run down to try to create another opportunity but Charlton's resident Korean Seol has already put it past the keeper for a 5-3 loss. Chelsea are now within three points, Charlton four.

I respond by crushing Bolton 5-1 with a hat trick and two assists but get red carded in the 61st for a bad tackle! With Arsenal, Chelsea and Charlton hot on our heels, a loss or tie means we will probably be out of first.

And at Molineaux that's exactly what happens. Wolves beat us 1-0. We're now tied with Chelsea.

West Ham comes to Nene Park. I can't infiltrate their thick defense until the 54th, when I blast it home. We're doing really well... until the 70th, the Hammers get down at the south end and put one past the keeper!

The joker Morientes refuses to pass the kickoff, and the Hammers get it, waltz pass the defense -- and we're down 2-1!

And to top it off, no one can pass me the ball! I'm making good runs and they just dump it to a defender - Morientes has the last chance for a draw, I'm calling and wide open, and he hoofs it. It was at this point I got up from my seat and kicked a sleeping bag across the room. Cech, Morientes, Kewell, Rommedahl, and the rest of the Rushden squad shuffle off the pitch. Arsenal won, Chelsea lost (to Spurs (!)) and Charlton won.

The race for the title now looks like this with 9 games to go until the run-in:
Arsenal 56, +11
Rushden 55, +20
Chelsea 55, +18
Charlton 55, +14
Sunderland 49, +18
Spurs 47, +14

Liverpool and Newcastle are fighting for Relegation. West Ham would have been down there but for their gift of three points... (AAAH!)

BTW Division Three South... That's where it's at :)

[statto]

I serve a yellow card suspension but we're through to the next round of the cup, 2-0 away to Sunderland without me.

Spurs are up next, at White Hart Lane.

We run out there and I get the feeling that it's going to be one of those games.

In the 16th minute, I pass it to my young strike partner - who slots one home! 1-0!

Defoe strikes in the 34th because of the **** defense and the halftime stats come up - 11 shots to Spurs, 1 to Rushden - our goal. I haven't got a shot in.

Second half I get a shot in the 54th but it's saved. The defense is thick and I can't put the shakes on them.

In the 78th Defoe heads another one home, 2-1 to Spurs. I pass another to Evans in the 90th because I have three defenders blocking the shot...and he hits the post. Game over, third league loss in a row.

Arsenal killed Man U 4-0, Chelsea beat Sunderland, and Charlton tied Ipswich, so now we're alone in fourth. Spurs are five back for that Champions League place. Sunderland are in sixth now.

8 to play... and its only January! Come on Si...
Arsenal 59
Chelsea 58
Charlton 56
Rushden 55 **
Spurs 50
Sunderland 49

ROUND 31
Arsenal v Leicester (20th)
Rushden v Chelsea
Sunderland v Reading (10th)
Brighton (9th) v Charlton
Portsmouth (12th) v Spurs

Chelsea at Nene Park... a tough team to snap your winless streak against, and Gudjohnsen scores in the 17th. Cole makes it 2-0 and I need to start playing a lot better...

But out of the blue, our winger passes to me! I miss it, but it goes right through to Hugh Evans, who slots it home! 2-1 at halftime.

Chelsea's team was thuggish. I can't get a shot on goal in the second half much less touch the ball until I start dropping back into the midfield and challenging Geremi. The game ended 2-1, seven left, seven behind. Only two games left against top ten opposition though... can we do it?

Arsenal 2 1 Leicester
Rushden 1 2 Chelsea
Sunderland 1 0 Reading
Brighton 1 0 Charlton !!
Portsmouth 2 1 Spurs

7 to play
Arsenal 62
Chelsea 61
Charlton 56
Rushden 55
Sunderland 52

32nd Round
Rushden v Portsmouth (12th)
Charlton v Arsenal
Reading (10th) v Chelsea
Plymouth (13th) v Sunderland

We need to beat Portsmouth. They take the kickoff, I get the ball, run down and score in the 4th minute, not wasting any time, and again in the 30th. No suspense here, I try to put one past Ashdown all of the second half but can't quite pull it off as Portsmouth changes tactic after tactic trying to get one by our Cech.

Rushden 2 0 Portsmouth
Charlton 1 0 Arsenal **
Chelsea 1 0 Reading
Plymouth 1 0 Sunderland

Chelsea 64
Arsenal 62
Charlton 59
Rushden 58
Sunderland 52

So our Champions League cushion is there... I'm still looking for my first trophy after getting the runner up award. However, we only gain on Arsenal, and it's going to take us two games and a couple of goals to dethrone Chelsea.

33RD ROUND - 6 to go
Newcastle (16th) v Rushden
Arsenal v Bolton (15th)
Portsmouth (13th) v Chelsea
Wigan (18th) v Charlton
Sunderland v Man United (7th)

So we need to win this game, basically. My energy isn't full because of a sponsors meeting...

I feel pressured to perform early, and I net two in the span of six minutes, 19th and 25th.

I batter the goal all game and don't get much, but Newcastle doesn't get much either because they're all defending.

Until there's a good clearance, Owen feeds Luque who points it past Sheppard (who couldn't catch a cold). 2-1 to the Diamonds.

I get subbed in the 75th and start praying.

Everything goes ok for 6 short minutes. Then, Luque gets the ball, and our defense just parts. The radio commentary for you:

Luque's got a clean break!
He's one on one with the keeper!
HE SHOOTS!!!
SHEPPARD BLOCKS IT!
Luque picks up the rebound!
PARRIED AGAIN!
And the diamonds clear it.

I swear my heart skipped a beat. Rushden make a late offensive run and that's game.

I got Man of the Match!

Arsenal 2 2 Bolton
Newcastle 1 2 Rushden
Portsmouth 2 2 Chelsea
Wigan 1 2 Charlton
Sunderland 0 0 Man United

They were all held to draws against weak competition! Well, not Charlton, but still we gain ground.

So with five to go, here's the table:
Chelsea 65 +21
Arsenal 63 +15
Charlton 62 +15
Rushden 61 +21
Sunderland 53

Sunderland are going to have to have a miracle to catch our Champions League spot now, so they're done. CL it should be!

Before our next match against Liverpool, I get a new contract worth $132,000 a week. How Rushden makes this kind of money I do not know :)

ROUND 34 - FIVE TO PLAY
Charlton v West Brom (17th)
Chelsea v Plymouth (12th)
Wolves (9th) v Arsenal
Rushden v Liverpool (14th)

NOW UPDATED!
It's snowy on the pitch at Nene Park and we need to beat Liverpool. Basically, we need to win as many games as humanly possible out of these five, and maybe we'll stand a fighting chance of winning our first ever championship!

Liverpool comes out tough with Crouch (not as tall in the game as he is in real life) but they can't score. In the 12th, I strike and it's 1-0. In the 18th, I'm running in the box and am brought down! The Nene Park faithfuls hold their breath... and I convert it to the left of the keeper. Piece of cake, 2-0. I get my hat trick in the 2nd half, get brought off and Liverpool grabs one back via Pongolle.

Charlton 1 2 Wigan - Wigan's survival hopes stay alive!
Chelsea 3 0 Plymouth
Wolves 1 1 Arsenal - We're in 2nd!

Chelsea 68 +24
Rushden 64 +23
Arsenal 64 +15
Charlton 62 +14

12 possible points left, a Sunderland loss or Rushden win means Champions League for sure - but we're more concerned about the Championship. We play Ipswich (10th, we won 3-0 earlier away), Brighton (who are 7th and who beat us at Withdean earlier in the year), Arsenal (ugh, but we won 4-0 last time around) and close it out at home against Wigan, who tied us 3-3 in a cracker of a game where I scored the equalizer in the last minute of play.

Chelsea have Newcastle away (3-0 win earlier), Man United (1-1 draw away), Liverpool (2-1 home win), and Leicester (last place, who they magically lost to last time around!) If we match the results, Chelsea goes 2-1-1 for 7 points, we go 2-1-1 as well, and we're four behind them at the end of the year.

Oh well, let's take some silverware!

ROUND 35 - 4 TO PLAY
Ipswich v Rushden
Newcastle v Chelsea
Arsenal v West Ham
Sunderland v Charlton

[AfterDeath]

Oooh, I love title fights. I just question why on earth Man United aren't up there, as they appear to be a better side than Arsenal... then again, JJU/Nicky knows about that. ;)

Anyway, yeah, really good career so far. It sounds like a good side actually. Rommedahl, Kewell, Cech... who's in defence for you?

[statto]

...

ROUND 35 - 4 TO PLAY
Ipswich v Rushden
Newcastle v Chelsea
Arsenal v West Ham
Sunderland v Charlton

In the meantime we play Charlton in the cup. I put us up 1-0, Evans makes it 2-0 but Seol the Charltonian ties it up by halftime.

In the 74th I fire home the sure winner. 88th Minute, up 3-2, I call for a free kick right on the midfield line, accidentally pass it backwards, it hits off of me, bounces to Seol, who kicks it - and it's 3-3, extra time.

I am determined to not let this one go to 5-3 Charlton again, like our league match early in the season, and I don't. From the kickoff I go down and make it 4-3. Then, due to fatigue, I get pulled off and face a nervous 15 minutes - but Evans scores and makes it 5-3! We should go through! 116th minute and Seol has the ball again... the keeper flails about. Oh no... it's 5-4! But we hang on for the win and we are in the cup final! And against 1st Division Crystal Palace no less (they knocked off Spurs in penalties, Chelsea in extra time, and Leicester in six rounds so they could be tougher than anticipated).

Our league game is against Ipswich. I score the first in the 7th and quickly realize it's not about winning, but by how much. A hat trick and McDonald's first ever goal (he's a regen) make it 4-2 in favor of us (our defensive line of Ian Evatt, Garner (a regen), Daniel Grainger (an original Diamond) and regen Paul Makel lets in two).

So a hat trick and yet another man of the match... what did the other teams do?

NEWCASTLE WINS! Chelsea loses 2-1 to Newcastle and with three games to go we are now only a point away from greatness.

Arsenal win easily over the soon to be relegated Hammers of West Ham and Charlton get killed, 4-1, by Sunderland!

So it now looks like this:
Chelsea 68 +23
Rushden 67 +25
Arsenal 67 +17
Charlton 62 +11
Three games to go... and this should be the lowest point total by a champion since Man United's 75 a ways back.

International Time - I score 7 for Montserrat in our 11-1 thrashing of Barbados. Proof our defense is so bad: Barbados only had one shot on goal. Montserrat now has as good a goal difference (+25) in four games as Rushden does in 35. Oddly, the other game in our group finishes goalless :)

I'm no longer including Charlton in my notes.

ROUND 36 - THREE GAMES LEFT
Rushden v Brighton
Chelsea v Manchester United (!) (9th)
Spurs (6th) v Arsenal

So it's Brighton and for the first time I am not the hero. I get a penalty and hoof it (my finger was on the wrong button), and in the 32nd I kick it off the post. It falls to my midfielder, who lobs it to Evans my strikepartner - he heads it home.

Later in the half I pass it to Evans via a shot on goal - and he gets the rebound, 2-0! We are now in control of the game.

In the 86th I have a chance to score, but I'm on the wing - and I see Evans wide open. I try to get him his hat trick - a perfect cross-pitch pass - and you know what he does? He passes to Rommedahl, who scores. He passes up the hat trick for the goal.

I then get subbed off and Brighton nab a consolation goal off a header in the 91st. We haven't had a clean sheet since the Portsmouth game. 3-1 Diamonds.

Let's see how the opponents did:
Chelsea 2 0 Manchester United
Spurs 2 1 Arsenal
Rushden 3 1 Brighton

So Chelski win, but Arsenal lose - so Arsenal have to win out and hope Chelsea draw and lose or lose and lose to win the title. And Rushden, via Highbury er whatever their new stadium is called, stand in their way.

Chelsea 71
Rushden 70
Arsenal 67
Two games to play.

Chelsea: @ Liverpool, Leicester
Rushden @ Arsenal, Wigan

[adam_the_scouser]

ARGH dont leave me hanging!!!! Even though I am a scouser born and bred I lived in Rushden for a few years and saw their transformation into the diamonds and I always keep an eye out for their results so I consider myself a fan. I had a free ticket which was given out to the residents there for the first ever game but I never went. I went on a stadium tour though. Nice!!!

[Chas]

I just read the history of the team(s), and now i see why there appears to be an American flag in the bottom of the badge!

It must be tough having to go through a merger at first. I'm a Croydon FC fan, and i know i was strongly against a merger between Croydon FC and Croydon Athletic even though it could have meant biggers things for both clubs (fortunately it hasn't gone through, and hopefully it never will. I would hate to lose our badge and quartered-style kits).

Were you around for the 1992 merger? Which team did you support before then?

[AfterDeath]

Wow, this is so close. I still don't see why Nick made United so awful in this game. :P

Please return statto, we'll give you presents! What a fantastic title fight.

[statto]

Chelsea 71
Rushden 70
Arsenal 67
Two games to play.

Chelsea: @ Liverpool, Leicester
Rushden @ Arsenal, Wigan

So Arsenal are up and they need a win to pass us. Henry is out so that helps us a little bit.

Our defense is really shoddy and Lupoli, who I think is Arsenal's regen striker, heads it home in the 16th. I get double teamed near the net and have multiple chances just wide starting from the 4th minute onwards - so in the 39th I try for the assist. McDonald traps it and puts it past Arsenal!

In the second half, it's all Arsenal. I don't get very many chances at all; Lupoli goes off the post; I am running low on energy and our players can't pass to their own men. The pressure is withstood - and I get the ball back in the 90th - we need to win the game - but I am tackled at the edge of the penalty box by two players! I appeal but to no avail. The game ends 1-1, and with a Chelsea win, we'll be three points behind.

So we check the results from Liverpool...

2-0 to the Reds! Chelsea have dropped one!

And we were only a point back!

So now, with only one game to play, here are all the teams with a mathematical chance of winning the title:

1st Rushden 71 +27
2nd Chelsea 71 +23
3rd Arsenal 68 +16
4th Charlton 68 +13

All we need to do now is beat Wigan... who are already relegated. Chelsea need to beat Leicester by five goals more than we beat Wigan, or get a better result than us to win.

Arsenal need to cream Portsmouth and hope everyone ahead of them loses for the title; so does Charlton, but those are the four Champions League teams for the next season.

But before that, the English Cup final.
Crystal Palace (1st Division, 11th) v Rushden (going for the double)!

I have energy problems and choose not to buy an energy drink, so I sit out the first ten minutes. In which Crystal Palace's Dougie Freedman evades our defense and scores, much to everyone's surprise.

Everyone is still surprised at halftime, when it's 1-0, and Rushden are overmatched. Our ****py players are slower and can't tackle. Once one Rushden defender passes right to a Palace player - with no one else around for miles. It's absolutely pathetic.

And so, Palace go up 2-0. Then 3-0 with only a third of the game to play.

Just a handicap, right? After all, they are a second division team. I pass to Evans, who scores easily. 3-1. I smell a Liverpool...until the Crystal Palace do a give and go past our completely ass confused defense. 4-1. 20 minutes left.

Crystal Palace tackle me in the box and I convert easily. Then, I run down and score with 4 minutes left. 4-3. One more goal, need to steal the kickoff.

But Rushden were so inept, we didn't steal the kickoff. The give and go happened again, even though I tried to intercept it I just blocked it. The Palace striker, Jon Macken, is at a wierd angle - but manages to beat the keeper. 5-3 Crystal Palace, final whistle. I spit on my cup runner's up medal and get really really mad...in real life.

The exciting conclusion later...

[AfterDeath]

Oh well, unlucky. I guess you can't win them all, and it's nice to see a small team win the cup.

But heck, you've still got the title... you better post soon! ;)

[statto]

First, Sociedad beat Monaco for the CL final. Remember that for the 2010/11 season :)

Second, One game left in the year:
Rushden v Wigan
Chelsea v Leicester
Portsmouth v Arsenal
Charlton v Man United

The game starts out and I am fearing a Crystal Palace repeat. Wigan take four shots on goal in the first 10 minutes. I finally get a first touch and shoot but nothing comes of it - Wigan tackle a lot (more than I was expecting for sure). In the 25th, I finally hit the post. It ricochets to Morientes, who makes it 1-0. We take it into the break level, without giving Wigan any more chances.

Finally the floodgates open. I score four in the second half before getting substituted - and we win 5-0! The drinking started at Nene Park as soon as the final whistle blew.

We just had to make sure everything was one and done with Chelsea. The Blues won, but only 2-1, and we had 8 better on them in goal difference!

Charlton came in 3rd after Arsenal lost to Portsmouth, 2-0, and Man United lost to the Addicks at the Valley, 2-1.

Sunderland, Spurs, Wolves, Brighton, Manchester United, and Ipswich rounded out the top ten.

Reading were 11th and the only team in the lower half of the Premiership with a positive goals difference. Liverpool, Portsmouth, Bolton, Plymouth, West Brom, and Newcastle survived (positioning in that order), while West Ham, Wigan and Leicester were doomed to Division One football for a year. Watford, Southampton, and Blackburn coming up.

All to do now is wait, win with Montserrat, then finally win the Champs League :)

[statto]

MY OWN RUSHDEN STORY
How did I pick Rushden then?

I remember nothing about the 1990 World Cup. I didn't even know it was going on. 1986 doesn't count, as I was much too young to remember that one. I wasn't raised a soccer fan; I was raised a baseball fan, so it failed to exist.

1994 I was a little more coherent, and the fact that there was a giant media boost because the event was being played in America worked its way into my skull. My first soccer memory is a headline: "Glorious, but not victorious" - after the USA lost 1-0 to Brazil. Maybe it was 2-0, I don't know. I still remember watching the final to my dad, watching Baggio hoof it over the net - more because it was something to do than anything else. (They must have preempted baseball for the week).

Four years passes, to 1998, when I realize I've been missing out on something special - real football, not this American ****. I quickly start rooting for England (come on, the USA sucks! - er sucked) and Michael Owen, and get really disappointed when Beckham gets sent off.

The World Cup ends and I get soccer withdrawal. Fortunately there is a two hour long EPL highlight show every Sunday, and every Sunday in front of the television, I watched it, adopting Liverpool because of Owen's WC performance.

Until one day.

Then-good Leeds United visited this tiny Northants club in the 4th round of the F.A. Cup. And on the clip show, they televised almost the whole match. And it ended 0-0.

I was in awe of this club who I had never heard of before (hell, I didn't really know how promotion and relegation worked at this time) holding Leeds to a 0-0 draw. Why didn't they get crushed? The clip show also aired the replay, where Rushden went up 1-0 at Elland Road before losing 3-1.

And from that moment on, I was hooked on minor league soccer, specifically the Diamonds. It wasn't an overnight thing, but I hadn't got attached to Liverpool that badly at the time, and I became fascinated with the Conference, the geography of teams in the Conference, etc. And for no real reason other than I had heard of them first and it looked like they had something going for them, I started checking Rushden's results online the same time I checked Liverpool's. Soon I was checking Rushden's results before I checked Liverpool's, then I really quit caring about how Liverpool did at some random, gradual point in time. Rushden just seemed like they had a lot more to accomplish than Liverpool did - a lot more than just playing the same teams over and over again and trying to get into Europe. I listened to a couple games live via the internet, was happy when they were promoted, etc etc... and just got hooked.

If I did it again I might have picked a different club, but I can't do it again. I'm now stuck. It's not like I want my 2002 home kit to be my favorite piece of apparel, but I can't help it. I've never even been to Rushden, for christ's sake, but Paul Hart's bunch of Conference duffers are for whatever, unknown reason close to my heart.

Now they're league champions ;)

[Chas]

Palace lift the Cup :D

We are Palace, we are Palace, super Palace, from Selhurst!

Peter Taylor's Red and Blue Army!

Top of the league IRL as well!

[Mad2Ad]

see that's what the fa cup can do. i remember a few years ago my team Leicester was playing Wycombe Wanderers in the quarter finals and i and all me friends were like yeah were in the semis but then wycombe won 2-1 with even there manager getting sent off. The polayer who had scored there winnind goal was signed of teletext i mean teletext thats unbelivable. Didn't knoiw they advertise footballers on there. lol

Also the money the smaller clubs get from these matches pays there players wages for like 4 years

Any way thats why The FA Cup is easily the best domestice cup competition in the world.

[adam_the_scouser]

Nice story Statto but i am dissappointed with ya mate dropping Liverpool completly!!!! Yeah i moved to Rushden when I was about 7 but couldn't stand it down there so I moved back to live with my dad when I was 10. Statto DO NOT GO TO RUSHDEN!!!!! It's a small hilly town.
Although you may be interested to know when Rushden merged with the diamonds my school was right by the old stadium, I mean literally across the road from us. And they let us play our home school games in Rushden's old ground. It was cool cos they had one proper stand and three terraces. It just felt special being able to play in a proper stadium with turnstiles and everything. I know American kids get to play in little stadiums in High school (don't know about younger kids) but it was great running out at 7 years old into a proper football stadium. We won all our games but one cos most of the kids were probably in awe.

[statto]

What's wrong with Rushden? I may need to see a game there eventually. Also, I gotta root for someone in the premiership ;)

[adam_the_scouser]

Rushden aint too bad it's just I moved there when my parents broke up. Just bad memories all round. Infact there is nothing wrong with the place I just wouldn't want to live there. Visiting would be cool though to go and watch the Rushden & Diamonds play. If you can drive it is also in a nice area with Cambridge not too far away. I recommend going there because they have a great sight seeing tour bus were you learn about that famous college in America which was founded by an Englishman who took his books over there. Bugger my mind is blank. The University beginning with a H I think. I remembered it's harvard. Anyway.
And they have an American air service cemetery for all the Americans who died over here in WWII which is kept in great shape and has a little chapel. There is a wall there with all the names of the people who died serving over here and those who got the medal of honour and a star of david for those who were Jewish.

[statto]

Ok, that's understandable. Sorry about the bad memories - I was worried the people would try and kill me or something :)

[adam_the_scouser]

lol no they wont kill ya. They will just look at you funny wondering what you are and poke sticks at you. There is just something weird about a bunch of English guys getting together and dressing up like cowboys and having shoot outs. They did that at our local pub.

[statto]

Did I mention that I am from Cowboy Country? I'd fit right in...

One of my lifelong friends went to visit cousins on the east coast of the USA when we were little... they thought he would be a cowboy just based on where he was coming from geographically, not realizing that we lived in the middle of an urban area!

[adam_the_scouser]

lol thats funny. Reminds me of when I returned from my holiday in Texas in 98. All my friends were like "Do they ride horses to work" and "Did you stay on a ranch"

Still I went around Pflugerville high school and spoke to the classes there and there questions were like...
Girl: "Do you guys have tv?"
Me: "We invented the tv"
Girl: "Oh"
Another example

"Do you guys have airplanes"
me: "How do you think I got here"

"What do you guys call those red double decker bus thingies"
me: "err the bus"

Was fun though and different seeing how an American high school works. there was even a bat on the floor. GO AUSTIN ICE BATS

[Mad2Ad]

Yeah i like america is cool.
I got lots of funny questions like that too. someone asked me.
"Why English is called English if America invented it." lol
" Do you have cars in England"
hehe ( i dont think there will be a country in the world that doesn't.)

I really do think that some americans live in a world of there own lol.

[Bubka]

Mad2Ad.. give this a try and see what ppl _really_ know ;)

http://uncyclopedia.org/