2014-06-13
11 分钟Hello and welcome to No Such Thing as a Fish presents the World Cup of Facts.
This is the only football podcast out there that makes absolutely no mention of the sport whatsoever.
Brought to you by the QILs in association with VisitEngland.com.
My name is Dan Shriver and joining me today is Andy Murray,
James Harkin and Anna Czazinski and today's match is Spain vs Netherlands.
Okay, let's kick off.
What's quite interesting about Spain?
I want to mention the most brilliant festival in Spain.
Baby Jumping,
it's a traditional Spanish holiday that dates back to 1620 and you lay out babies on the street and people jump over them as far
as they can and it's supposed to rid the babies of sin.
Which is pretty damn cool.
Brilliant.
Unless it's your baby.
I have a matching festival which involves goat tossing.
It's celebrated in Mancaneses de la Polvarosa and a bit of the ceremony is where a group of young men throw a live goat from the top of a church and then a crowd catches it in a big sheet.
Animal rights groups got very annoyed about this.
The health and safety got mad.
The practice was banned but they did throw one in the 2014 celebration.
They have rat tossing as well.