Soccer In Sudan: Guns And Soldiers Required

New York Times:

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The streets emptied at sunset. Twitchy-faced soldiers hit the pavement, literally thousands of them, wearing all stripes of camouflage, blues, greens, grays and browns. They twirled clubs and AK-47s and plastic pipes and ragged old beating sticks. Their giant trucks with four-foot-high wheels blocked the roads. This did not feel like a major sporting event. It felt more like a presidential coup.

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Comments

[Da-king]

12:58 PM on 11/19/2009

OK HP, if you guys are going to report on soccer or real football don't post stuff that only has some kind of controversy in it, its childish and insulting to soccer fans. Don't post about soccer if you guys aren't knowledgeable about the game, geesh when someone reads your blog they would think that soccer is all about controversies.

[Da-king]

12:58 PM on 11/19/2009

OK Huffingtonpost, if you guys are going to report on soccer or real football don't post stuff that only has some kind of controversy in it, its childish and insulting to soccer fans. Don't post about soccer if you guys aren't knowledgeable about the game, geesh when someone reads your blog they would think that soccer is all about controversies.

[KIVPossum]

01:44 PM on 11/19/2009

Oh, come on. Americans love to bash soccer and this will give them a good opportunity. ;)