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Author Topic: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski  (Read 519053 times)

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4035 on: September 12, 2023, 09:24:29 AM »
I am told by some of my Polish work colleagues that if i were going to be very careful where i drink etc...
Oh come on then ask your workmate to give us a clue, like where exactly or where not?

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4036 on: September 12, 2023, 09:29:31 AM »
Going back a few pages, Go Ahead Eagles would be my favourite Dutch team if I could be arsed to have favourite foreign teams. Based in Deventer - fantastic city and where they filmed a lot of A Bridge Too Far - they have one of the greatest football names outside Aston. Their ground is a real throwback English effort and they play in the Melchester Rovers strip. The best place in The Netherlands to watch a game.

The most polite name in football. Always had a soft spot for Den Haag myself.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4037 on: September 12, 2023, 09:39:25 AM »
ADO (proun: ahh day oh). You've got to love some of these names. Anyway, they have some sort of link to Legia I think. They also have a relationship with corruption that fits the home of government and international diplomacy. Going against the city's peace and justice image, the club attracts some who like to keep the Dutch hooligan flag flying. The game in that country could be so good if Ajax would do the decent thing and piss off.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4038 on: September 12, 2023, 09:54:08 AM »
Going back a few pages, Go Ahead Eagles would be my favourite Dutch team if I could be arsed to have favourite foreign teams. Based in Deventer - fantastic city and where they filmed a lot of A Bridge Too Far….

For one game every season, Vitesse Arnhem change from their usual kit and wear a claret and blue version. I think it is in  recognition of the Paras and the “ Bridge too Far” Battle of Arnhem. Which is commemorated this month.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4039 on: September 12, 2023, 10:16:53 AM »
Yep, it's the colours of (insert number) Airborne. Claret & blue is everywhere in the city all the time. They should just become Villa fans and be done with it.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4040 on: September 12, 2023, 10:24:59 AM »
Yep, it's the colours of (insert number) Airborne. Claret & blue is everywhere in the city all the time. They should just become Villa fans and be done with it.

They could just change their name to Arnhem Vitesse to become AVFC

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4041 on: September 12, 2023, 10:35:28 AM »
What can possibly go wrong 1700 Villa fans queuing for tickets in the middle of Warsaw!!

I am told by some of my Polish work colleagues that if i were going to be very careful where i drink etc...



If I were going - and I am not, because I have auto identified as too 'retarded' (no offence meant, I obviously mean it to mean the other thing, not that one, I thought that was clear) to understand how to pick up the tickets - I wouldn't be thinking about where I would be drinking.

I'd be working up a list of cultural sights I would like to see in a city which must surely rival any other European capital, particularly in terms of the darkest period(s) of the 20th century.

I know different people like different things but being in a new city and spending your time rammed into a pub with people who live two miles from you, singing songs you all sing every week together, I will never understand that.

We get all excited about travelling around Europe to watch football (that bit, I do get) but then treat it exactly the same as a new away in some other new part of the UK, except with cheaper beer (sometimes).

Sheesh.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4042 on: September 12, 2023, 10:42:06 AM »
What can possibly go wrong 1700 Villa fans queuing for tickets in the middle of Warsaw!!

I am told by some of my Polish work colleagues that if i were going to be very careful where i drink etc...



If I were going - and I am not, because I have auto identified as too 'retarded' (no offence meant, I obviously mean it to mean the other thing, not that one, I thought that was clear) to understand how to pick up the tickets - I wouldn't be thinking about where I would be drinking.

I'd be working up a list of cultural sights I would like to see in a city which must surely rival any other European capital, particularly in terms of the darkest period(s) of the 20th century.

I know different people like different things but being in a new city and spending your time rammed into a pub with people who live two miles from you, singing songs you all sing every week together, I will never understand that.

We get all excited about travelling around Europe to watch football (that bit, I do get) but then treat it exactly the same as a new away in some other new part of the UK, except with cheaper beer (sometimes).

Sheesh.

Yeah, bollocks to that.

You find the local town square, get in the fountain, then pavement dance to bewildered commuters.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4043 on: September 12, 2023, 10:44:53 AM »
Yeah, bollocks to that.

You find the local town square, get in the fountain, then pavement dance to bewildered commuters.

NOW you're talking.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4044 on: September 12, 2023, 11:01:39 AM »
What can possibly go wrong 1700 Villa fans queuing for tickets in the middle of Warsaw!!

I am told by some of my Polish work colleagues that if i were going to be very careful where i drink etc...



I'd be working up a list of cultural sights I would like to see in a city which must surely rival any other European capital, particularly in terms of the darkest period(s) of the 20th century.

I know different people like different things but being in a new city and spending your time rammed into a pub with people who live two miles from you, singing songs you all sing every week together, I will never understand that.

We get all excited about travelling around Europe to watch football (that bit, I do get) but then treat it exactly the same as a new away in some other new part of the UK, except with cheaper beer (sometimes).

Sheesh.

Now I’m going to be in a 1700 strong queue to get into the Warsaw Rising Museum. Thanks.

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4045 on: September 12, 2023, 11:11:19 AM »
Every week we follow,
the boys in claret and blue,
we visit sights in Europe,
from Anne Frank's house to the Louvre

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4046 on: September 12, 2023, 11:32:35 AM »
Yep, it's the colours of (insert number) Airborne. Claret & blue is everywhere in the city all the time. They should just become Villa fans and be done with it.

They could just change their name to Arnhem Vitesse to become AVFC

Applause!

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4047 on: September 12, 2023, 11:45:29 AM »
Every week we follow,
the boys in claret and blue,
we visit sights in Europe,
from Anne Frank's house to the Louvre

We've seen the Mona Lisa
Michaelangelo's David too
We even saw Manneken Pis
In Nineteen Eighty Two!

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4048 on: September 12, 2023, 11:50:59 AM »
What can possibly go wrong 1700 Villa fans queuing for tickets in the middle of Warsaw!!

I am told by some of my Polish work colleagues that if i were going to be very careful where i drink etc...



I'd be working up a list of cultural sights I would like to see in a city which must surely rival any other European capital, particularly in terms of the darkest period(s) of the 20th century.

I know different people like different things but being in a new city and spending your time rammed into a pub with people who live two miles from you, singing songs you all sing every week together, I will never understand that.

We get all excited about travelling around Europe to watch football (that bit, I do get) but then treat it exactly the same as a new away in some other new part of the UK, except with cheaper beer (sometimes).

Sheesh.

Now I’m going to be in a 1700 strong queue to get into the Warsaw Rising Museum. Thanks.

Ha ha ha, excellent!

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Re: UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski
« Reply #4049 on: September 12, 2023, 12:06:53 PM »
Every week we follow,
the boys in claret and blue,
we visit sights in Europe,
from Anne Frank's house to the Louvre

We've seen the Mona Lisa
Michaelangelo's David too
We even saw Manneken Pis
In Nineteen Eighty Two!

Excellent efforts, but a song with foreign words in it will never catch on.

 


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