What is a Ricky Gervais lookalike doing in the box?
There’s a giant apple missing from that picture.
What exactly makes this great?
Was thinking the exact same. Not the first time he’s made a baffling “contribution” like that on this thread either.
This thread has moved on quite some way from the “great” of its original post, its merely a thread now to post midly relevent, recent and novel sports photographs. In reality, this thread moved from its original purpose around page 4 or so.
Also, why would two players, from what appears to be opposing teams, both be celebrating?
Look deeper mate.
Pervert.
And here’s the story behind it -
Real Sociedad 5-0 Athletic Bilbao, Anoeta
Spanish league, 5 September 1976
The moment General Franco was dead a year but Spain was still coming to terms with the idea of – let alone introducing – democratic freedom. Indeed, it was still illegal to speak Basque and Catalan or even fly the region’s flags. The figurehead may have been gone but, to a significant degree, Spain still felt under fascist control.
So, remarkably – and perhaps fittingly given the histories of the teams in terms of local cultural representation – it was Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao who started to strip down the old constraints.
Before their first meeting of the 1976-77 season, Real Sociedad player Josean de la Hoz Uranga convinced both teams that – as representatives of the Basque country – they should make a stand. As they entered the field, captains Inaxio Kortabarria and Jose Angel Iribar were jointly carrying the Ikurrina – the outlawed flag of the Basque country. It was an act that may have still been illegal but it was also hugely emotional: the Anoeta crowd went wild.
They said
“A lot of people cried when we came out with the flag.” Josean de la Hoz Uranga, the Real Sociedad player who came up with the idea
“We were all Basques who had come through the youth system, both teams. We felt we had to do something.” Uranga
What it meant Politically, a huge amount. The simple, single act is credited with quickening Spain’s transition to democracy as well as the autonomy and self-expression of the regions. But the act would also foreshadow a shift in football terms too. By 1980, the clubs would begin a period in which they shared four league titles between them, with both winning consecutive titles. It represented the longest time Real Madrid had gone without a league since 1953.
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And here’s the story behind it -
Real Sociedad 5-0 Athletic Bilbao, Anoeta
Spanish league, 5 September 1976
The moment General Franco was dead a year but Spain was still coming to terms with the idea of – let alone introducing – democratic freedom. Indeed, it was still illegal to speak Basque and Catalan or even fly the region’s flags. The figurehead may have been gone but, to a significant degree, Spain still felt under fascist control.
So, remarkably – and perhaps fittingly given the histories of the teams in terms of local cultural representation – it was Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao who started to strip down the old constraints.
Before their first meeting of the 1976-77 season, Real Sociedad player Josean de la Hoz Uranga convinced both teams that – as representatives of the Basque country – they should make a stand. As they entered the field, captains Inaxio Kortabarria and Jose Angel Iribar were jointly carrying the Ikurrina – the outlawed flag of the Basque country. It was an act that may have still been illegal but it was also hugely emotional: the Anoeta crowd went wild.
They said
“A lot of people cried when we came out with the flag.” Josean de la Hoz Uranga, the Real Sociedad player who came up with the idea
“We were all Basques who had come through the youth system, both teams. We felt we had to do something.” Uranga
What it meant Politically, a huge amount. The simple, single act is credited with quickening Spain’s transition to democracy as well as the autonomy and self-expression of the regions. But the act would also foreshadow a shift in football terms too. By 1980, the clubs would begin a period in which they shared four league titles between them, with both winning consecutive titles. It represented the longest time Real Madrid had gone without a league since 1953.[/QUOTE]
cracking moment…up there with the day Ireland grew up as a nation when God Save Our Queen was sung at croke park for the rugby match against England…
we’ll ignore the fact that Adolfo Suarez was already in power and had started La Transicion …
Disgusting lack of class. I fucking hate psg and everything about them .
That’s the problem with new money.
Credit to José for not reacting. That is despicable carryon.
Context, bro.
Mugged off twice in five days.
I’ve made my mind up and I’m not for turning.