http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/09/world_cup_apocalypse/

The economic apocalypse begins quietly enough: employees increasingly sidelining business-critical tasks to indulge in online fantasy football World Cup leagues; a noticable increase in workplace drunkeness as England supporters go into vital pre-match training ahead of tomorrow's clash with mighty Paraguay; a perceptible slowing of your network as the BBC's live broadband streams come online...

Fast forward two weeks: business-critical tasks are on indefinite hold because your entire workforce is either drunk, unconcious as a result of excess alcohol, or hospitalised through drink; your network has crashed under the sheer weight of live broadband streams; your sysadmin is powerless to act because he's in the pub, drunk, and your IT system is accordingly exposed to attack by hackers, crackers, phishers, phreakers, phiddlers, pheltchers and other phelonious phu*kwits; your email server is carrying out a denial of service attack against the Kyrgyzstan Interior Ministry website after Russian spammers gained control of it by bot infection via an email masquerading as a free World Cup final ticket offer, which was inadvertently opened by a temp secretary while drunk...

bring it on !