[LMB] Football on Barrayar [Was: Sports on Barrayar]

[Doctor Nightfall]

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What am I doing here
half asleep
and the rest of me
still in bed
making coffee
with tea bags...?




>From: John Campbell Rees <jwcr at gardd-lelog.org.uk>
>Reply-To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>To: lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk
>Subject: [LMB] Football on Barrayar [Was: Sports on Barrayar]
>Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:43:53 +0100
>
>To my mind Barrayar was an European colony, with Russia, Britian,
>France and Greece being the main sponsor countries. the predoninant
>version of  Football  played there would therefore be Association
>Football, given its dominance in present day Europe.  However, given
>the British influence, I definitely see Rugby Football, both the
>League and Union variants being played (since the 1990's when
>professionalism was introduced into Rugby Union, there has been a move
>towards Union being the Winter game and League being the Summer game,
>which will probably continue on Barrayar).
>
>John.
>

I quite agr