Austrian Fans Start Petition to Ban their team from Euro 2008

Ahh, the life of a disgruntled football fan. You spend hours suffering through your team’s miseries with only the promise of more misery to come. Rather than sit back and watch their national team embarrassed on the world stage some fans in Austria have decided to try to do something about it.

They have created an online petition to try to get their team banned from the Euro 2008 competition. Yes, the very same competition that Austria and Switzerland will jointly host.

In an open letter, its creators explain: ‘Dear friend. Your entering this site is no coincidence.

‘It means you care about attractive football. It means you appreciate a blind pass that actually reaches its destination. It means you thoroughly enjoy amazing dribbling skills.

‘It means you jump for joy when a free kick is expertly bent into the far corner of the goal. In short: it means you love this great sport for the sheer beauty of it.

‘However, it also means you fall into a dismal state of depression when watching a match featuring the Austrian national team.

‘For all those displays of true skill, on a field taken by our team, occur about as frequently as meteorite impacts.’

Even though the petition will in no way, shape or form actually lead to Austria’s ban, you have to admire its moxie.