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Argentina unfurl Falklands banner before game last night

Chris_from_Sidcup
Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,078
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Whole team posed for photo on pitch in front of a massive banner that said "Las Malvinas Son Argentinas".

So much for FIFA not allowing politics to have any place in football...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2014/article-2651800/Argentina-players-hold-banner-saying-The-Falklands-Argentine-Slovenia-friendly.html
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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,061
    That doesn't look like "the whole" Argentine team to me.

    I think they do it before every game, God knows why.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    probably coming up to an election over their or their PM is in trouble
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Doesn't deserve the attention they want. Let them have their say and waste their time on silly banners, it means diddly squat.
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    'The wishes of the Islanders are paramount. ' I wonder who said that? They are bound to want us to honour the UN agreement, but everyone wants the oil revenue. Meanwhile political football plays on........
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,967
    Let's see if they have the bollocks to fly it if we come up against them.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,993
    Doubt the players give a monkeys about the Falklands. Just politicians trying to deflect attention away from their own shortcomings, same as ours do over here.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,112
    stilladdicted said:

    'The wishes of the Islanders are paramount. ' I wonder who said that? They are bound to want us to honour the UN agreement, but everyone wants the oil revenue. Meanwhile political football plays on........

    And their wishes were verified in a recent vote.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,201
    In fact Messi did pose behind the banner, but he is too short to be visible.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,769
    A Daily Mail story . Now there is a surprise.

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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Will never be theirs
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Stan Collymore will be happy
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    1StevieG said:

    Let's see if they have the bollocks to fly it if we come up against them.

    I'm sure they will be very scared of the team that are so patriotic they have to be forced by the manager to mumble the national anthem.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,583
    What are the permutations that would result in us playing them in this World Cup

    I would be happy for them to unfurl that it would raise the temperature.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    If the Falklands aint on a video game they wont have herd of it. Mind you better that than the shit The Wife Beater spouted.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Argentinians feel very strongly about the Falklands. It's most Brits that don't give a stuff.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,649
    Vincenzo said:

    Argentinians feel very strongly about the Falklands. It's most Brits that don't give a stuff.

    I'm fairly sure that the people that actually live there feel quite strongly about it.

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,823
    Kap10 said:

    What are the permutations that would result in us playing them in this World Cup

    I would be happy for them to unfurl that it would raise the temperature.

    I might be wrong but the earliest we can meet Argentina (given that they win their group and we win ours lololol) is the semi-final. Otherwise in the final.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,112
    edited June 2014
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Vincenzo said:

    Argentinians feel very strongly about the Falklands. It's most Brits that don't give a stuff.

    I'm fairly sure that the people that actually live there feel quite strongly about it.

    Exactly. Pretty irrelevant what the general public here or in Argentina think compared to people who actually live in The Falklands, who want to remain British.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Vincenzo said:

    Argentinians feel very strongly about the Falklands. It's most Brits that don't give a stuff.

    I'm fairly sure that the people that actually live there feel quite strongly about it.

    Exactly. Pretty irrelevant what the general public here thinks.
    Pretty irrelevant what the Argies think too.

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  • DMC
    DMC Posts: 199
    I think the only chance of us meeting them is a semi final. would be great if it happened though!
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,967
    DMC said:

    I think the only chance of us meeting them is a semi final. would be great if it happened though!

    Yep, only chance is if we get a semi...............

  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Vincenzo said:

    Argentinians feel very strongly about the Falklands. It's most Brits that don't give a stuff.

    I'm fairly sure that the people that actually live there feel quite strongly about it.

    Exactly. Pretty irrelevant what the general public here or in Argentina think compared to people who actually live in The Falklands, who want to remain British.
    yes and who are british citizens...
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    What did the ulrika beater say
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,061
    edited June 2014
    nth london addick said:

    What did the ulrika beater say

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639723/Stan-Collymore-sparks-fury-rubbishing-Falklands-1982-conflict-f-ing-island-sheep.html

    Edit-please note the source
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,741
    se9addick said:

    nth london addick said:

    What did the ulrika beater say

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639723/Stan-Collymore-sparks-fury-rubbishing-Falklands-1982-conflict-f-ing-island-sheep.html

    Edit-please note the source
    He's a prick of the highest order. He's even edited screenshots in an attempt to get people done for racism

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,663
    edited June 2014
    Collymore states that he has always voted Labour.

    A genuine question to the many Labour voters on here. Why is it that the Labour party has been and is so eager to intervene militarily in foreign countries under the guise of "regime change" yet views the defence of British territory like the Falklands with contempt?



  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,488
    LenGlover said:

    Collymore states that he has always voted Labour.

    A genuine question to the many Labour voters on here. Why is it that the Labour party has been and is so eager to intervene militarily in foreign countries under the guise of "regime change" yet views the defence of British territory like the Falklands with contempt?



    Who says the Labour party view Falklands with contempt?

    Stan Collymore is not the labour party.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    One can only hope when he racks up to a game he bumps into a Para veteran of the Falklands.

  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Attention seeking mug when he is in Brazil I hope he avoids the fans

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