World Cup 2002 Darwin Awards
World Cup 2002 Darwin Awards
A celebration of the World Cups biggest eejits !
DISCLAIMER : IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU WANT TO HAVE A LAUGH AT SOMEBODY ELSES EXPENSE. IF THAT SOMEONE IS YOU, THEN THATS YOUR OWN FAULT FOR DOING SOMETHING SILLY IN THE FIRST PLACE - NOT MINE.
Patrick Millar turned up at the Ireland Vs Germany game, with his son and A.N.Other (name cannot be revealed because its a HUGE secret). In his possession was his son, Hugh's, ticket for Ireland Germany. The tickets for him and A.N.Other were for Italy Vs Croatia.
The upside of the story was that it only took him 1.5 hours to BUY new tickets, one of which was at the other end of the stadium :-)
The complete downside of poor Patricks evening (like it could get any worse !) was that, because A.N.Other was at the other end of the stadium - he left after 89 minutes of the game to get the train.....Ireland scored in the 92nd minute !
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Kenny Lee travelled to Korea for the opening match....France Vs Senegal. Understandably, like we all were, Ken was very excited and wanted memories.....So he decided to scan his Opening Game ticket. 4 hours before the match kicked off, the ticket was still in the scanner - in Japan. Ken was in a Korean Barbeque, with not much of an appetite !
Happy ending.....someone gave him a spare ticket - and his memory is now the real ticket !!
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The 2 guys, leaving the Ireland Germany match in the 80th minute so "they could get a seat on the train".
Lads.....Unforgivable - I hope hearing the Irish supporters shaking the ground was worth the comfort of the train ride home :-)
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David Curry (Fluent Japanese speaker) and Alan Peedle (good looking, charming Scot) left work early on Thursday 13th June to savour the delights of their first World Cup game - Equador versus Croatia. David, with his Equadorian looks, and Alan with his Croatian body were very excited to be able to go to such an event - and lets face it, the teams playing are irrelevant if you get the chance to go to a World Cup match !
On arrival at Tokyo Station, Fluent Dave got the tickets, and they made their way to the platform singing songs such as "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" and "Ole Ole Ole Ole".
3 hours laters, the boys arrived at Shizuoka....shame really because the match was in Yokohama. They had to wait for 45 minutes for the next train back to Yokohama and missed the first 15 minutes of the match.
Some Honourable Mentions
A big congratluations to JAWOC for making a fine effort to re-allocate all of the 'spare' World Cup tickets.
The website was a raging success - and, I believe, they managed to reallocate no tickets before the service broke down !! But fear not - the Masterminds of FIFA and JAWOC would not be defeated and came up with a new solution - a telephone hotline !
Little did we know that it was literally 'a hotline' and the poor girl who was receiving 2 million calls a minute when the hotline opened is now undergoing treatment.
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FIFA stuck to their guns when they said there would zero tolerance at this World Cup. Anyone without a ticket would be turned away.
Unfortunately, the first reported incident where they had to react was to an 8 month old baby who turned up in the arms of her caring Mother. Both Mother and Baby were turned away from the game.
Sources later revealed that the baby was, in fact, a terrorist.
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