[Humour] Baku in the USSR

ConfusedGloryHunter

He/him/his/that muppet

Jul 6, 2011

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• Jun 16, 2021

• #1

I just heard this expert punnage from the BBC coverage of Turkey vs Wales in Baku and I just wanted to say well done. Well done indeed!

Something along the lines of this is the national stadium of Azerbaijan, a former member of the Soviet Union so this was Baku in the USSR.

Nice.

 

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Gwylan

Well-known member

Jul 5, 2003

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Uffern

• Jun 16, 2021

• #2

It is, of course, more famous in England for being the the home of the linesman who awarded England the goal in the 1966 World Cup, I believe he has a stadium named after him

 

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park

NSC Patron

Apr 5, 2014

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• Jun 16, 2021

• #3

Gwylan said:

It is, of course, more famous in England for being the the home of the linesman who awarded England the goal in the 1966 World Cup, I believe he has a stadium named after him

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Yes. And for years we thought of him as Russian. It's a bit like a Welsh linesman having such legend and being called English (as I'm sure happens).

 

Juan Albion

Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class

Jul 9, 2003

31,370

Pontypool (Not THAT Pontypool, the one with the zo

• Jun 16, 2021

• #4

Definitely in Asia though.