Soccer Fun! Just Add Water!

It's two days on, and still we can't find results from Fussballwattmeisterschaft (surely you know that's German for the Mud-Soccer World Championships). It may be due to a far-reaching conspiracy by regular soccer, which wants to hog all publicity for their own World Cup. Or, perhaps, it's because in Mud Soccer, it's impossible to tell one player from another. Things we like about mud soccer:

• There's mud in places where mud ought not to be. • It's held in a place called Brunsbuettel. • It's just one event in a larger Mud Olympics. • It reminds us of the Batley Townswomen Guild's Reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor.

Oh, and half of the fun is going to the Google English translation portion of their web site (our money is on Lummerland):

16 crews out all Mr. Länder will fight on Sunday, 4 June, for the Watt championship title. Pageant not only for those, which will offer large sport in the kneel-deep Elbschlick, but also for all, which can pursue the whole from the safe dyke grandstand.

We'd watch every minute of the real World Cup if they had a safe dyke grandstand.

Whitsuntide 2006 [Wattolumpiade]