Iceland Vs Holland

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Tunbridge Wells

• Oct 13, 2014

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Waghorn's amazing trivial football facts, - Of the 22 members of the Icelandic squad facing the Dutch tonight, all but one have a surname ending in son, the exception being Solvi Ottesen. It's currently 2-0 to Iceland, Get in there my sons.....

 

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Pogue Mahone

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• Oct 13, 2014

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Iceland v Netherlands

I have just turned on SS1 to see that with twenty minutes left Iceland are 2-0 up in this game. And looking good!

 

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Pogue Mahone

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One minute before me. With over seventy gone. Unbelievable, Jeff.

 

The Wizard

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Would be some result for them. As a side note, I think in Iceland pretty much every males surname ends in 'son' for some complex family reason.

 

KJP

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Goring-by-Sea

• Oct 13, 2014

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Their surnames are their fathers first name plus son on the end

 

edna krabappel

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The Wizard said:

Would be some result for them. As a side note, I think in Iceland pretty much every males surname ends in 'son' for some complex family reason.

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Complex? It just means "son of". Thordar Sigurdsson's son might be Gudjon Thordarsson. Gudjon's son Erik would then be Erik Gudjonsson, and Eric's son Magnus would be Magnus Ericsson.

Women in Iceland nearly all have the suffix "dottir", meaning "daughter of" their father. Thus: Hanna Thordarsdottir in the first example given above.

 

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Marxo

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• Oct 13, 2014

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In Iceland they have an App to make sure of no close family ties when a couple wish to marry.

 

edna krabappel

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More people live in Bristol than in Iceland.

That said, the Soccernomics people reckon that, in terms of participation and viewing habits, the Icelanders are the most fanatical football fans in Europe.

 

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Goring Gull

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• Oct 13, 2014

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I hope they qualify only narrowly missed out on the World Cup. Great country as well been twice and loved it hopefully going back again next summer.

 

kevo

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Amazing result. Iceland only has a population of 300,000 - considerably less than perennial whipping boys, Luxembourg.

 

edna krabappel

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Goring Gull said:

I hope they qualify only narrowly missed out on the World Cup. Great country as well been twice and loved it hopefully going back again next summer.

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Me too. Easily my favourite country of the ones I've visited in Europe.

 

Mowgli37

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Sheffield

• Oct 13, 2014

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Absolutely love the place, delighted to see them do so well

 

Man of Harveys

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• Oct 13, 2014

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Fantastic result, delighted for Iceland. Great to see such cheating little tarts like Robben losing while wearing GLOVES.

 

edna krabappel

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Man of Harveys said:

Fantastic result, delighted for Iceland. Great to see such cheating little tarts like Robben losing while wearing GLOVES.

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Pssst! One of the Icelanders was wearing gloves too. And I thought there was a remarkable absence of cheating in that game, from both sides. At least from the bit I saw. I noted the home fans were booing Robben: didn't know if that was because of something in the game, or just because they could.

 

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Goring Gull

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The Dutch are up against it now to qualify early days but not the start they will have wanted and knowing there fragile mentality could well implode.

 

Prince Monolulu

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The Race Hill

• Oct 13, 2014

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How's that work then? I've started so I'll finish.

 

Ali_rrr

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• Oct 13, 2014

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Love watching them play. They really are heroes in Iceland and were so unlucky to not qualify for the world cup. I reckon with the right group, they'll be the dark horses in the Euros.

 

edna krabappel

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Elsewhere, Norway brought on a 15 year old, Martin Odegaard, as a substitute in their qualifier against Bulgaria tonight. He was born in December 1998. What were you doing then?

 

Paris

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edna krabappel said:

Elsewhere, Norway brought on a 15 year old, Martin Odegaard, as a substitute in their qualifier against Bulgaria tonight. He was born in December 1998. What were you doing then?

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I was bringing up the Branston after a Christmas party.

 

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Goring Gull

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edna krabappel said:

Elsewhere, Norway brought on a 15 year old, Martin Odegaard, as a substitute in their qualifier against Bulgaria tonight. He was born in December 1998. What were you doing then?

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How to feel old I'd have been 21 and working for NTL generally making a bollox of fixing peoples cable TV, Analogue at that none of this digital tv in 98.