The Football.....

[Accy cyclist]

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Ah nice to see that you support your local team! Grrr,even though you have stolen our goalkeeper.
I've just been down my local main shopping street,wearing my Holland 1988 Euro Champs shirt. Two blokes who i went to school with snubbed me as i looked at them to say hello. Pathetic! Grown men in their 50's not speaking because i have a 'foreign' shirt on. Wait till they see me in my West Germany World Cup 1990 green away shirt. They'll probably attack me or summat!

 

[PaulB]

Wait till they see me in my West Germany World Cup 1990 green away shirt. They'll probably attack me or summat!

Do you know why Germany's away shirt was green? I await someone to come along and claim this isn't true (there's always someone somewhere, with a big nose who knows, who trips you up and laughs when you fall etc) BUT, I was informed that after the war no-one would play the Germans at football but Ireland, who were never actually at war with them, agreed to give them a game. The Germans wore the green after that as a tribute to Ireland for welcoming them back to the football fold.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Do you know why Germany's away shirt was green? I await someone to come along and claim this isn't true (there's always someone somewhere, with a big nose who knows, who trips you up and laughs when you fall etc) BUT, I was informed that after the war no-one would play the Germans at football but Ireland, who were never actually at war with them, agreed to give them a game. The Germans wore the green after that as a tribute to Ireland for welcoming them back to the football fold.

Well i didn't know that! That's very interesting! I'll tell an Irish friend who said when she saw it that it looked like an Ireland shirt. Now we know why.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Well i didn't know that! That's very interesting! I'll tell an Irish friend who said when she saw it that it looked like an Ireland shirt. Now we know why.

It's ok, it's not true.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

If you want an interesting fact about Germany, here's one:
Their first ever international match was against Switzerland
Their first international match after WW2, when they became West Germany, was Switzerland
Their first game back as Germany was against Switzerland

 

[Accy cyclist]

It's ok, it's not true.

How do you know it isn't true?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

How do you know it isn't true?

Because they played Switzerland (twice), Turkey and Austria before they played Ireland

 

[Accy cyclist]

Because they played Switzerland (twice), Turkey and Austria before they played Ireland

Ah,silly me. It was a good story though.

 

[AndyRM]

I lost a tie break question in a pub quiz about the green top thing. Apparently it's actually because green and white were the colours of the DFB at the time. Dunno if that's true, because colours for TV hadn't been invented back then, so I suspect we'll never know for certain.

 

[pjd57]

Retro shirts are popular at the moment. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/clip/21fc82e2-d266-45e6-90ec-f268cff4405f
Don't let your age or beer belly put you off wearing one!

The only one I wear is my Celtic 1967 Lisbon top.
No adverts or logos to spoil the hoops.

 

[PaulB]

Ah,silly me. It was a good story though.

See what I mean!

 

[Accy cyclist]

See what I mean!

I watched a video on you tube last night.

Watch it on 8 mins 30 secs. Are East Germany in green or is it my eyes? If they are then surely that'll mean that

I lost a tie break question in a pub quiz about the green top thing. Apparently it's actually because green and white were the colours of the DFB at the time. Dunno if that's true, because colours for TV hadn't been invented back then, so I suspect we'll never know for certain.

this is correct. Weren't the east wearing green because they'd done so way before the country split into 2 different football organisations?

 

[Stephenite]

Which World Cup wall chart to download and print out?

 

[PaulB]

I watched a video on you tube last night.

Watch it on 8 mins 30 secs. Are East Germany in green or is it my eyes? If they are then surely that'll mean that


this is correct. Weren't the east wearing green because they'd done so way before the country split into 2 different football organisations?

fark the begrudgers Accy. I wrote in my response to you you'd get someone with a big nose determined to be right. If there's an interesting story - like the Queen of Italy's eyes for instance - use it when it suits you.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

yeh, who cares if it's bollocks...