The Cup

World Cup, FA Cup, UEFA Cup, Malaysia Cup, European Cup, Thomas Cup, Singapore Airlines Cup, A Cup, B Cup , Sawadeecup ...

Cups have always facinated me, especially those that come in a pair ... like last week we had the FA cup and UEFA Cup in a week :) (Don't think I don't know what you are thinking)
I like watching the winning team caress it and every player kissing and licking up each other's saliva off the cup. It's just a piece of silver actually, so what's the big deal? It is going to end up in the cupboard anyway ... see, the Cup goes into the c-u-p-board ...

I have checked Google on how the Cup thing started, I mean why the cup and not other utensils as the ultimate prize? Why not World Fork instead? You know the fork is as important as the cup right? They tried to use the plates, I think in tennis, but then they realised people were using them as mirrors, so they stop using that already.

Well, apparently the Cup thing started when Roman Emperors would reward a gladiator's win with his own drinking cup, which of course is made of 24k gold. The handles and lids were only added much later when they started making bigger cups and they realised bigger cups would collect more dust easily ... Had the emperor decided on the spoon or fork, then most trophies today would have shaped like the farmers' shovel.

What if the World Cup was replaced by a stack of cash instead, yes, currency. Like an awesome lot of dollar notes on the table, and the winning team would just grab the money and run round the stadium with hands waving chunks of notes and piles of it strapped around their waists. Afterall isn't that what they have been working for? Nobody would want to wake up everyday to train at 4am, run 500 rounds the stadium and kick 10000 balls for a piece of silver, they want cash! So I say give them cash, not cups!

World Cash definitely sounds better than World Cup.