Argentina unfurl Falklands banner before game last night

Dazzler21

I have worn a white palace shirt... I still had my red Charlton Shirt under it though so it never made contact with the skin covering my heart.

Was playing a 6-aside game and I was moved onto the whites from the colours after they had 2 players get injured.

We were 4-0 up I had just scored for my 2nd for the colours then switched to whites and scored an oggy 'by accident' in the palace shirt. I then scored two more against the colours. We finished at 6-2 that OG for/against the whites pleased me somewhat...

Goonerhater

Neil Heaney-are you Stan Collymore ? if so how is the dogging going ?

Neil_Heaney

RedPanda said:

Neil Heaney said:

If you visit the country you realise what a beautiful place it is, how great its people are, and how good its football culture is. And holding a grudge over some absurd geopolitics in the 80s suddenly seems a bit ridiculous.

Really? Residents of Buenos Aires are renowned for being arrogant dickheads. It’s easily the rudest city I’ve been to and it was the same regardless of your nationality. Other places were a bit better.

Lived there for 6 months and got on great with them. They have idiosyncrasies that can come across as rudeness but nothing that seemed really meaningful or offensive. They were really welcoming and know how to have fun.

Neil_Heaney

Goonerhater said:

Neil Heaney-are you Stan Collymore ? if so how is the dogging going ?

I know Collymore's anti-jingoism wound up a lot of people on here so not surprised me saying positive things about a country I lived in has provoked a reaction again (the majority from those who've probably never even been there or met an Argentine).

And for the record I'm patriotic and don't mind some semi-irrational football tribalism either. Completely loathe Palace and Millwall and always will.

RedPanda

Neil Heaney said:

RedPanda said:

Neil Heaney said:

If you visit the country you realise what a beautiful place it is, how great its people are, and how good its football culture is. And holding a grudge over some absurd geopolitics in the 80s suddenly seems a bit ridiculous.

Really? Residents of Buenos Aires are renowned for being arrogant dickheads. It’s easily the rudest city I’ve been to and it was the same regardless of your nationality. Other places were a bit better.

Lived there for 6 months and got on great with them. They have idiosyncrasies that can come across as rudeness but nothing that seemed really meaningful or offensive. They were really welcoming and know how to have fun.

Yes they do know how to have fun. Buenos Aires's relentless nightlife turned me into such a wreck that I had to escape.

All_Thaid_Up

Don't understand wearing national shirts unless you have connection to them. My son wanted an Argie shirt because of Messi, I told him no. He can wear his England or Thailand shirt that's it.

The amount of Asians wearing Germany shirts now is ridiculous.