things that annoy the fook out of you

The Albanian team also thought Duty Free was 'free'!

I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.

pre Madonna wrote:

I think you might be on to something there. That rings a bell and the colours don't fit in with any of the rest of their campaign.

In fact CFS have a bit of a story and are selling one of the Lithuanian shirts

https://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/1993-lithuania-match-worn-away-shirt-12-maciulevicius-v-ireland.html

Apparently, it was Albania who also had difficulties. But I cant shake the belief that Latvia also had a jersey issue.

I think you might be on to something there. That rings a bell and the colours don't fit in with any of the rest of their campaign.

Greed has won, big finance has won. Whatever small role elite clubs still play in the local communities from which they grew is dwarfed now by their position as global brands.

pre Madonna wrote:

Umbro were definitely associated more with England, in particular, and had, I think, exactly half of the original EPL contracts, but they had some big continental teams too. I'm pretty certain they had Ajax and Inter around that time.

And, eh, Brazil

The Latvia jersey used in that match is a clone of the Norn Iron 1990-1992 jersey

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pre Madonna wrote:

BigStrongMan wrote:

there’s a pic on FAI Twitter of Sheedy celebrating a goal. Who is the opposition? Fairly sure I was at the game as a nipper. Latvia?

Yeah, he go the last in a 4-0 home win in September '92. Latvian shirt was a beaut, inspired by the rave scene.

Latvia had Umbro in 92 which was rather odd considering the brand was basically confined to UK/EIRE. Malta had Umbro in 89 too

Now willing to engage with idiots for a short period of time.

there’s a pic on FAI Twitter of Sheedy celebrating a goal. Who is the opposition? Fairly sure I was at the game as a nipper. Latvia?

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Anyone else have a neighbour that's a smoker and as a consequence regularly sets off their own smoke alarm ?

The stupid prick next door loves the cancer sticks so much that he sets his alarm off three or four times a week sometimes. Can hear it bleeping through the bloody wall and it takes the **** bloody ages to turn the thing off as well. Angry

Claret Murph wrote:

The White Cafu wrote:

People trying to make a big deal over Aguero touching the lines woman on the shoulder yesterday. Embarrassed for them.

Yellow card for me as you cant touch the refs male or female

Yeah unsure if it's bad enough to warrant a red and match bans, maybe a yellow and a warning of future conduct is enough.

The main thing is the punishment is consistent, regardless of a male or female ref.

McG wrote:

The White Cafu wrote:

People trying to make a big deal over Aguero touching the lines woman on the shoulder yesterday. Embarrassed for them.

Would he have done it to a Male official? That’s the big question mark here.

The context of it is everything

And the context is not good, it was not friendly

It seems fairly obvious to me that it was an act of misogynist intimidation that wouldn't have been done to a male official

Sort of reminded me of the way Trump tried to physically intimidate Hillary Clinton when he stood behind her on stage during a debate

None of this is categorically provable because it involves non-verbal communication, and that's the point about why such acts are committed, there's an insidiousness and a deniability to it

But the implication is clear to the person on the wrong end of it

I can guarantee that if you asked 100 women and 100 men to watch the incident, the views of the women would tend to be much more categorical about what the act by Aguero signified, than those of the men

That's because pretty much all of them have personal experience of such incidents and they know the implied meaning

Whereas men tend to have a vested interest in dismissing it

I would trust the views of women on this far more

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