Dashing Bob S
26-08-2010, 10:17 AM
UNITED STATES (EVENS)
The most powerful military machine in global history, with the technology to raze half the planet to ashes in a few days. Yet questions about their decision-making remain to the fore, as they were anoymous in WW1 and only started to show anything in WW2 at the knock-out stages. Despite their undoubted strength on paper, they have been victims of giant-killing against determined lower-league oppostion – they certainly won’t want to be reminded of that disasterous trip to Vietnam. Could this high-tech arsenal of advanced weaponry breach the famous Hearts ‘asbestos curtain’ which saw off challengers in previous World Wars? Despite those misgivings the Yankees will start of as tournament favourites.
HEARTS (7-4)
A few question marks over financing, but another debt-to-asset swap should see the Gorgie men back in full fettle and able to compete with the best over an extended campaign. There are serious doubts as to whether the Asbo Stand, an edifice which has survived two world wars, could make it through a third, and there is the considerable psychological blow of having had the clock monument at Haymarket moved to accommodate the trams. 400,000 crack troops looks good on paper, but times have changed, and it remains to be seen whether certain elements of the support (Section N in the Wheatfield springs to mind) would be as keen to take up arms to defend a multi-racial Britian as they were for the white trash paradise we undoubtedly were back in pre-war WW2 days.
GERMANY (5-1)
Runners up to Hearts twice in this tournament, they have the discipline, organisation and determination to go one better on this occasion. The Germans worry about Jambo increasing power and influence in most areas of commerce, particularly the lucrative double-glazing and call-centre markets. Thankfully the key industries of pegs, tarmacking and needle production are still in the hands of the Nazi-alligned Romany-Irish diaspora of Lochend. The Germans are said to be concerned about the growing number of Jambos, (up from an estimated 12,000 to 400,000 in just one season), so it’s probably best to give them something reasonable to cull, least that urge get out of control again. Generous odds might tempt the punters.
INVISIBLE NATION OF ISLAM (12-1)
Capable of wrecking havoc in free world with their terror tactics, yes, but could they hang in there for a lengthy campaign against the likes of ermany and HoMoFC? FIFA and Geneva Convention rules governing behaviour in the tournament have become increasingly strict, and the lack of a dedicated nation-state base could prove deterimental.
The most powerful military machine in global history, with the technology to raze half the planet to ashes in a few days. Yet questions about their decision-making remain to the fore, as they were anoymous in WW1 and only started to show anything in WW2 at the knock-out stages. Despite their undoubted strength on paper, they have been victims of giant-killing against determined lower-league oppostion – they certainly won’t want to be reminded of that disasterous trip to Vietnam. Could this high-tech arsenal of advanced weaponry breach the famous Hearts ‘asbestos curtain’ which saw off challengers in previous World Wars? Despite those misgivings the Yankees will start of as tournament favourites.
HEARTS (7-4)
A few question marks over financing, but another debt-to-asset swap should see the Gorgie men back in full fettle and able to compete with the best over an extended campaign. There are serious doubts as to whether the Asbo Stand, an edifice which has survived two world wars, could make it through a third, and there is the considerable psychological blow of having had the clock monument at Haymarket moved to accommodate the trams. 400,000 crack troops looks good on paper, but times have changed, and it remains to be seen whether certain elements of the support (Section N in the Wheatfield springs to mind) would be as keen to take up arms to defend a multi-racial Britian as they were for the white trash paradise we undoubtedly were back in pre-war WW2 days.
GERMANY (5-1)
Runners up to Hearts twice in this tournament, they have the discipline, organisation and determination to go one better on this occasion. The Germans worry about Jambo increasing power and influence in most areas of commerce, particularly the lucrative double-glazing and call-centre markets. Thankfully the key industries of pegs, tarmacking and needle production are still in the hands of the Nazi-alligned Romany-Irish diaspora of Lochend. The Germans are said to be concerned about the growing number of Jambos, (up from an estimated 12,000 to 400,000 in just one season), so it’s probably best to give them something reasonable to cull, least that urge get out of control again. Generous odds might tempt the punters.
INVISIBLE NATION OF ISLAM (12-1)
Capable of wrecking havoc in free world with their terror tactics, yes, but could they hang in there for a lengthy campaign against the likes of ermany and HoMoFC? FIFA and Geneva Convention rules governing behaviour in the tournament have become increasingly strict, and the lack of a dedicated nation-state base could prove deterimental.