Wardy's twin
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thought exactly the same
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[Football] Germany v Spain
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KZNSeagull
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Shearer regularly appears in the top 10 best paid people by the BBC earning over £400k a year for not doing much on MOTD and the odd live game. I assume he is contracted to them (as is Lineker at £1.5m) so maybe in order to justify that fee, he has been asked to do more? As licence fee payers are we not allowed to question that?
Upson is streets ahead of Murray IMOI find Upson and Murray really good, but I am biased
..and as I pointed out, there would be like a 0% chance of you not being "aggressively against" the status of Dog Island or whatever its called if it was Spanish.
Your initial claim that you don't like Spain because they don't respect your belongings (Gibraltar) is just hilarious coming from someone from England.
Pevenseagull
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Odd watching players for 'big' teams in the world cup and thinking we have better.
Who are you referring to?
Amazing to think it was only at the 2014 World Cup we first saw the vanishing spray for the first time and now it’s so commonplace
Surely he was offside when he took the ball off his teammate?
Well there you go buddy
GT49er
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We don't have 'belongings' any more - that went out with Empire more than 70 years ago. Do keep up.
Almost all former colonies are (voluntarily) in the Commonwealth now; they are free to leave at any time. Some small parts of the world, like Gibraltar and the Falklands, have chosen to maintain closer links with Britain (as British Overseas Territories), and unlike some, we respect their wishes.
As for the football, come on Spain - send the Germans home!
Milano
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Your license fee goes on a bit more than Alan Shearer
Ah - ok. Didn’t know that rule (tbh, it’s a long time since I read the laws of the game)
Milano
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And there we go….within a minute of conceding a Spanish player feigns getting an elbow in the face….. so predictable.
KZNSeagull
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Well thanks for that useful reply.
Yeah obviously very easy for you to respect a part of, geographically speaking, Spain wanting to be a British Overseas Territory but it really isn't that difficult understanding why Spain aren't too keen, similar to how I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be thrilled by some part of your island belonging to Spain or Russia or Sweden or whatever.
You do read these posts selectively. Not sure I warm to the anti-English sentiment in your final line, I‘m sure you could find a better home for that than NSC.
I am also not sure I ever said I didn’t like Spain, I said I was struggling to support them In a football match ahead of Germany. And then I pointed out the hypocrisy re Ceuta/Melilla and the fact that Gibraltarians have been treated by Spain for centuries in a way that would not endear them to anyone. The population there is a melting pot of nationalities, Brits account for about 25% only I believe but it’s complicated. Your plans for them sound bizarre, we can’t just go round re-writing borders because one side aggressively wants it, and if you are as pro-peace as you claim you should know that. What should we do next, ask Putin which borders he disagrees with and then give him the green light?
On Gibraltar, incidentally, the Spanish themselves had expelled the original population from North Africa, who had arrived 500 years earlier, and held it for only around 250 years. A bit different to the Isle of Dogs. Before handing them back to Spain, this might be a good read?
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Will the shocks never end in this World Cup?
Who could have seen woeful Germany scraping a draw against the Spanish?
Who could have seen woeful Germany scraping a draw against the Spanish?