PatMcD

My main interest is (Association) football

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The World Cup

I have tried to search for the World Cup on Wikipedia, I found it under football World Cup, surely the football is unnecessary. This article will get more and more hits as kick off approaches. Now that we have all the countries the sheer global sense of the competition becomes more clear.

I often think that the sense of the world as a single community is most visible during the world cup final when the entire globe settles down before its (metaphorical) fireplace, and (real) television sets to watch a single sporting event. - Pat McDonald 19:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

It had not even crossed my mind to check for spelling variants. Thank you, though, for seeing to the page. Saints fascinate me, as their lives mostly aren't that different from the ordinary. Happy Holidays! Trjumpet 03:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

I am currently doing what work I can on the 'reds' in the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

DYK

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