Leicester
City fans were out in force this weekend to represent their
club at the IFA's annual Worldnet tournament.
Internet
Football comprises of football teams from all over the world.
Each team is made up of fans from official football clubs,
and are brought together through e-mail mailing lists (the
Leicester list can be found here)
representing those fans.
64
teams were up in Leeds this weekend to catch up with old friends,
put old rivalries to bed (except for Pompey who couldn't resist
writing "Scummers!" on the notice board under Southampton's
name) and try to play football with the worst hangovers in
the world.
The
weekend is about making friends, having a good time and building
bridges between fans. There's also some football. Leicester's
team, the Internet Foxes, had a great tournament, winning
their group and only going out to the eventual winners of
the whole tournament, AC Celtic, through a golden goal.
Saturday
- Group Stages.
Internet
Foxes 2 Southampton 2
Internet
Foxes 1 Rangers(B) 0
Internet
Foxes 2 Ayr United 1
Table:
Team
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P
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W
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D
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L
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GD
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Pts
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Leicester
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4
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2
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1
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0
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+2
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7
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Ayr
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4
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1
|
2
|
0
|
+1
|
5
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Southampton
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4
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
+1
|
4
|
Rangers
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4
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
-4
|
0
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Saturday
- Evening
In
true Worldnet tradition the team set out for a curry and too
much alcohol. A certain Internet Foxes captain had to get
out of the taxi on the way back to the hotel to be violently
sick after many shots of different flavoured vodkas in Revolutions,
including the infamous chilli vodka. It took him 2 hours to
walk again.
Another
member of the team got thrown out of a nightclub he was too
drunk to remember the name of but it had a revolving dancefloor
in it which he fell off.
Sunday
- morning
Thankfully
all squad members were alive, half of them managed breakfast,
and they had all stopped throwing up. Compared with the look
of other teams, the Internet Foxes looked in good nick.
Sunday
- knockout stage.
Internet
Foxes 1 - Colchester 1
(went to extra time, golden goal to Leicester)
Internet
Foxes 0 - Celtic 0
(went to extra time, golden goal to Celtic)
Celtic
went on to win the tournament, beating Inter Milan's team
1-0. (the first time there's been an Italian team represented
at Worldnet) A massive well done to AC Celtic for being the
first Scottish team to win Worldnet.
Photos
from the tournament:
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The
Foxes' Jamie warms up...
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as
does super striker Smiffy...
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And
Buster. (Buster's on the left)
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Buster
gets ready to come on
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Yes,
this was really the best we could come up with to
represent our fine club
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The
Internet Foxes and AC Celtic get together to compare
notes on how irritating Martin O'Neill is when he
stalls on his new contract.
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The
Foxes defend another corner against AC Celtic
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A
massive well done to all those who organised Worldnet so superbly
again, and thanks to LCFC for the kits, and Sheila and Dilly
in the laundry room there for washing them.
If
you want to play for the Leicester team you can. It doesn't
matter about age, sex, fatness or fitness. Drinking vast quantities
of alcohol is also absolutely no impediment to being picked
and will probably aid your assimilation into the squad. See
the Internet Foxes
pages for more details.
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