THE PRESS FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP A crazy, crazy team

The team of Bursa has made another set of rivals happy in the Press Football Championship. If the team"s players played with white doves on their shoulders and olive branches between their teeth no one would be surprised. The team graciously conceded defeat again. "Better a beautiful miss, than an ugly goal", former football player Niki Dumitriu used to say. The team adopted this slogan as its motto. Aficionados of exact scores will find out that at half-time, the score was 1-1, which caused a lot of anger inside the team of Evenimentul Zilei. Since the press has enough problems as it is, it wouldn"t have been nice of the team of Bursa to cause them more trouble. The second round was tougher, "Evenimentul" brought forth its investigations, "Bursa" countered with its rigorous analyses, caustic remarks were answered with polite metaphors, many pieces of news sent outside the playing field were brought back and discussed in a completely different light. In such a flurry, there was no one left with enough patience to keep score, what was at stake was something completely different. The competition staged by Smart Olympic raises increasing passion, both on the field and besides it, which is not bad at all. All in all, it was a pleasant show, as the supporters of Bursa deserve an award for its beauty, literally. It needs to be said that the average age of the audience, of which ladies accounted for 90% was far below that of the players. The silent running of the players meshed perfectly with the noise of the supporters that were sitting down. Such a crazy, crazy team could not have expected any less from its supporters.