His nose would have been put out of joint by that.
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The Germans bombed the fuck out of the North Strand
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It doesn’t seem to have ever been a particularly safe place to live.
today is white armband day, as it marks the start of another Serbian summer genocide
http://www.atlascorps.org/blog/?p=995
On 31 May 1992, the Bosnian Serb authorities in Prijedor, a town in north western Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued a decree for all non-Serbs to mark their houses with white flags or sheets and to wear a white armband if they were to leave their houses. This was the first day of a campaign of extermination that resulted in executions, concentration camps, mass rapes and the ultimate removal of more than 94 percent of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from the territory of the Prijedor municipality.
This was the first time since the 1939 Nazi decree for Polish Jews to wear white armbands with the blue Star of David that members of an ethnic or religious group were to be marked for extermination in this way.”
http://sabinacudic.blogspot.com/2012/05/stop-genocide-denial.html , by Sabina Cudic
Today people from more then 70 countries joined the campaign that started in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which aim was to give a voice to victims of mass atrocities from around the world in their struggle for the truth, dignity and remembrance. Idea was started few days ago by one of the survivors of Prijedor genocide, and within a day people from around the world joined and supported the campaign by sharing stories, and pictures of themselves wearing a white armbands.
June 3 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ECoR__tJNQ
And the cunt spent a career trying to replicate it.
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He must have had one of the worst strike rates in history for free kicks. Into the fucking wall everytime
On this day 72 years ago the allied forces began the invasion of the French beaches. Those men are real heroes. I think a few episodes of band of brothers are on the cards later today.
16 June 1996
Is there much time left, here comes Ciaran Carey, Carey leading the charge of the light brigade, 45 metres out, he has a chance to score, he’s put it high, he’s put it over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwCM3criVDU&feature=youtu.be
Hardly even a bead of sweat on the fucker.
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On this day in 1904 Leopoldo Bloom left his house in Eccles Street.
30 years ago today, 22 June 1986, the greatest injustice in World Cup history and possibly the history of sport was perpetrated at the Azteca Stadium, Mexico City.
*Unless there’s a marathon to be run.
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Indeed, how convicted criminal Terry Fenwick wasn’t sent off for his disgraceful assault on Diego Armando Maradona still rankles. Thanks for reminding us Geoffrey.
An emigrant to Australia pontificating about convicted criminals. I’ve heard it all.
If you’re referring to Maradona’s second goal in that game, it was Terry Butcher, not Terry Fenwick with the last ditch tackle/lunge.
Thats a clamping.
No, I was referring to the disgusting physical assault that convicted criminal Terry Fenwick carried out on the great Diego Armando Maradona that day, I thought that was pretty clear. It was of course just one of many assaults Diego had to endure that day from english players and yet, and yet, he went on to score two magnificent goals. Truly one of the great footballing performances in the face of unmitigated hooliganism, something I’m sure you were not proud of at the time Geoffrey.
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For someone surrounded by convicted criminals in your new emigrant’s home, you’re getting very worked up about Terry Fenwick’s drink driving conviction. The great Diego Maradona that you refer to is a serial recidivist. Convictions for firearms offences in Argentina, tax offences, suspended twice for drugs use and a fugitive from Italian justice for years after he refused to return to Naples for questioning in relation to drug possession (which triggered his first ban from the game in the early 90;s).
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Nice story here about Argentinian attention to detail.
Argentina beat Uruguay 1–0 in the round of 16 wearing blue cotton shirts that coach Carlos Bilardo believed would prove too uncomfortable in the searing Mexico City heat. Bilardo asked Argentina’s kit manufacturer to come up with lighter blue shirts for the quarterfinal, an impossible request given the short deadline. With just three days to go before the match, he sent out Ruben Moschella, a member of his coaching staff, to scour the shops of the Mexican capital for a suitable kit. He returned with two different blue shirts, which they subsequently weighed but were unable to choose between. It was then that Diego Maradona appeared and said: “That’s a nice jersey. We’ll beat England in that.” Moschella returned to the shop and bought 38 of the shirts for the side to wear in the showdown versus England. A designer fashioned some makeshift Argentine Football Association (AFA) badges, which were then sewn on to each jersey, with silvery American Football shirt numbers hurriedly ironed on to the backs.
Any way it was hardly a sporting injustice in any sense of the word.
The England team was
Shilton
Stevens
Sansom
Butcher
Fen wick
Steven
Hodge
Hoddle
Reid
Lineker
Beardsley
A team of journeymen and yeomen. Reaching the quarter finals was the summit of their abilities. Dodgy goal or not they were played off the park for 75 minutes and tagged on a consolation goal near the end.
Argentina losing would have been the injustice.
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