Flying the flag
- 31 May 06, 10:54 AM
MANCHESTER - Peter Crouch's post-goal Robo-dancing was the strangest sight at Old Trafford on Tuesday night but England fans provided the most arresting one.
As the players lined up, supporters at each end of the ground held up thousands of red and white squares to form a .
It takes a group of all day to set it up but they say it brings people together and shows national pride.
Organisers hope to back a similar display in Germany - though underhand tactics might be needed due to get round a Fifa ban on bringing "multiple bits of paper" into stadia. (The ban is aimed at ticker tape and toilet rolls etc).
Is it to be dirty undies, fresh from the fans tour of Germany, that disguises what lies in the bag underneath? Of course, I cannot blow their patriotic cover.
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At least you can recognise an England fan. After months of hard searching, I cannot (I repeat CANNOT) purchase a Trinidad & Tobago world cup top online or in the stores!
If it weren't for our Carnival style, we would officially be the most anonymous group of supporters in any World Cup. I'm actually amazed noone is complaining.
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Yesterday, I was hearing the Manchester United Supporters Trust anthem: "We're Number One". It inspired me in my support for my teams England, USA, Spain, Poland, and Angola.
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The crowd forming the cross was a great sight. Crouch's robot dance was also a great sight, but surely the funniest sight was Michael Owen walking out with a mascot who was bigger than he was! I'm sure I heard Ian Wright laughing in the background as the camera switched from the studio to the players coming out of the tunnel. Whoever matches mascots to players clearly has a sense of humour!
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I like the flag... I'm just glad, for the organiser's sake, that we don't have a flag like Brazil...
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With regards to going around the paper ban in Germany, I think the Japanese supporters have a solution:
Bring coloured plastic bags and use them instead of paper. I don't know whether you can find white and red plastic bags in large numbers at short notice, but it isn't against rules to bring them into the stadium, and they don't take up space like paper or cardboard.
Back in France '98, the Japanese fans proceeded to surprise the whole world by using their plastic bags to take home their rubbish after the match, but I think THAT's too much to ask...
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this world cup buissiness is going to far. People are going crazy about it all over the world espicially Ascension and the Falklands islands.
bye 4 now
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