in the match of aresenal v/s west brom why were maby fans wearing orange jerseys????
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After 11 tremendous years service, Dutch striker Dennis Bergkamp is set to play in a star-studded testimonial in his honour against his former club Ajax, in the curtain-raising match at Emirates Stadium, which has provisionally been planned for July 22nd 2006.\n\nThis announcement coincided with Dennis Bergkamp Day - Saturday April 15th against West Bromwich Albion - a special themed matchday chosen by the supporters in the Dutchman's honour as part of the Club's Final Salute celebrations to Highbury.
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It means it is not a competitive match with league points or progression in the next round of a Cup competition.  All they are playing for is pride!
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Who cares ??  It's just a game.\nWhy do people get so wound up about who wins or not, and then you see the fans get into the deep past about the religion and politics of each team.  It's just and excuse for guys to fight as far as I can see.  You can support a team without hating the other team or it's supporters.\n\nWhat I find stupid is that one week your throwing insults at the players or fans from the opposite team, and then next week when Scotland are playing, that same opposite fan is sitting next to you and your best friend and the player is suddenly a hero !!
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Well their away kit is a royal blue with small elements of red trim.\n\nFootball teams here in Britain don't tend to wear uniforms, they are reserved for the armded forces, police and fire etc.
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Closely to it. Look at the fans: How bad their national team may be, they will still support it. What happened to "may the best team win"???
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You shouldn'y bea band-wagon hopper(ie. supporting a team just because they're winning) Support your own country if their not in it then just pick out of a hat. Or support Portugal along with me!!They have great looking players like Cristiano Ronaldo (ever heard of him) they're great players, made it to the finals of the Euro 2004, yes they have a great team kit - dark green and red.
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At the moment, hanging out of mt sons bedroom window is a HUGE England flag (I mean HUGE...never seen a flag this size b4!!) he wears either England t-shirts or his England football shirts or England kit with his England trainers, England baseball cap, 2 England wristband things, he can tell u who scores, what minute the goals have been scored in-he goes in to the scoring footballers entire life story near enough.....think its safe to say that we know who he is supporting and hes only 9 years old! On the other hand, my Dad who is from Scotland makes a joke out of the England & The World Cup!! He has had a few t-shirts with Scotlands Flag on the front and on the back it says 'We arent there, So we dont care!' Hanging from one bedroom window he has the England flag....only it has 'Scotlands Subsitutes' written across it.... so i suppose u could say he's half heartedly joinin in!! At the end of the day, he really supports Rangers and Falkirk so only really puts the England flag up 4 my son!! Fair play to him, at least he's tryng eh-which is more than what some miserable sods do!!
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This is the sort of thing a typical Argie-hater/English person would say when they are scared.. I know this from experience. I and a lot of other fans had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shake Diego Maradona and the selections' hand when they came to Sydney in the 1990's for the World cup qualifier against Australia. Needless to say Argentina won, but at the games there were many English fans shouting the same bullshit about the Malvinas and the 'Desaparecidos' of the 1970's, talking political shit just to bring us down because they have nothing else to throw at us.. CHEAP. I also remember as a child attending an endless amount of soccer games in Sydney in the early 1980's(being that my dad played for Independiente Mar del Plata back in the mid to late 60's),again, with Aussies poms shouting out the same shit just to intimidate us.. Holding up huge signs at the entrance to the stadium about the disappearance of thousands of people in Argentina back in the 70's.., about Perontistas and communism and all that other crap that has abosutely nothing to do with Football.. I remember being in the midst of a riot on the streets of Sydney and Argie fans picking up cans and making music and shouting out Argentinian cheers and songs and the police arresting my dad for being hit in the head with a beer bottle, by a group of drunk Aussie and pommie supporters.. calling us wogs and telling us to go back to our own country..lol.... whatever.. And yes i think Argentina has a very good chance of winning. We have numerous players with more potential than hhmm ..lol.. Beckem...lol.. Okay so Maradona messed up.. but has there been anyone like him yet? Has any other player done what Diego did in his prime??? Poms, your are acting scared.. This is a new generation of scared.. a fear that will never leave your blood.. Stop using poilitics for your advantage, this is a sports game, If there is one thing pommy fans lack it is SPORTSMANSHIP, ever heard of it pommies???
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Why are you such an idiot?? What gives you the right to assume that all English football fans are idiots?? I'm a England fan, but certainly not an idiot. Don't you just hate generalisation's....
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The match has been played on daylight.\nHere is a rare picture, showing it.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/photo_galleries/football/1963308.stm
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WELL SAID !!  As someone who has recently posted a couple of questions myself taunting england supporters.I totally agree,this is supposed to be a bit of banter,but what happened today has totally sickened me.....my best mate at work is a cockney ,so i am not anti-english,but it does not stop us ripping the pish out of each other over our teams.As i said a bit of banter.\nOn behalf of all true SCOTS and not these MORONS i send my deepest apologies to both families.
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The same thing happened in the match between England and Paraguay.  It still went in Ukraine's goal, whether it was from a Spanish or Ukrainian player.
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Could it be that they had three new players again? My son watched the game and he said they just didn't look in the mood. They were lacking in team spirit or maybe high spirits as such. They didn't look as confident as they always do. We are very strong Springbok supporters, but it must be said that Ireland played really well, their game was of a higher standard than usual.
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Its a scorching day, and It was the first game. I dunno about you lot, but I wouldnt be much good running In this heat, after all I`m human like the English players. Theres been so much on the news, In the papers, building England up, all the media hype...you ever heard of the saying " trying to hard to please"? The whole world Is watching, everything they do, or dont do, they know they get slagged off for. I agree, England were`nt all that today, but...3 points Is what matters, As for swapping teams after 1 game, 1, where Is your loyalty? 2, Dont go by the first game. 3,Brazil have`nt even played yet, and If they do and lose to an underdog team, you gonna revert back to England again when It suits you?. I dont think your being a good role model for your son, Its as If to say " England are losing, sinking, lets jump ship" Nonsence....You watch our next few matches....If England get further than you expected or If England win....I hope you tell your son, "Daddy Is a plonker"!!!
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Yeah... UEFA have around 18,000 I believe. This is gonna be THE game when the dignitories outnumber the supporters! It's HIGH time supporters got some kind of union going to put a stop to this kind of insult. UEFA?... Useless, Extortionat, Faggots, Association. And WHY?... are they taking the biggest game in Europe to a stadium that holds just 35,000 people?. Madness!
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It's almost been 24 hours and I still can't believe this.  Shaun Wright Phillips is left off the squad.  Defoe is on the reserve squad...but Walcott is on the starting squad.  Gamble or dumb move?  I think it's a dumb move.  Here in the states, Bruce Arena is smart enough to leave Freddie Adu out this year....because he is too young with too little experience.  But the Swede selects Walcott.  Unbelievable!  Total slap in the face to SWP.
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I read a report this morning, about those shoes, and how the newest ones that most players are wearing are not as supportive as the older styles which give more protection.  I have to agree that the shoes were the reason.  If you watched the match...and saw the replay, you'd see that his foot just buckled under the fall, and I believe with stronger support on the shoes, that wouldn't have happened.  The report can be seen at the link below, and it's just one man's opinion...but it makes sense, considering David Beckham, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Danny Murphy and Scott Parker have all suffered this injury in the past couple of years, whereas before the newest style of boots was around, this injury was not as prevalent.