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There ain't no mistake. As much as we would all hope it was a mistake, it wasn't.
Yeh that is quite s**t. So was the rest of it. Not only what you saw in just one photo.
77 Brazil goalsAh well, at least got Neymar crying tonight. Can’t have it all. Messi was so close.
Any tin foil hats about the passing of US football journalist Grant Wahl?
U.S. soccer journalist Wahl dies at 48 in Qatar
Grant Wahl, a prominent US soccer writer, died early Saturday while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.www.espn.com
He made a few posts early in the week indicating poor health, but the timing of it all is interesting to put it mildly.His brother is on record suspecting foul play.
Oh please....He made a few posts early in the week indicating poor health, but the timing of it all is interesting to put it mildly.
The red and white checkerboard design was part of the Ustasha insignia. The Ustasha were Nazi Germany's official police force in the Balkans and were made up of Croatian Fascists/Supremacists. Their stated aims were to converting one-third of Serbian Orthodox to Catholicism, expel one-third and kill one-third and they managed to kill one third at least.
In the Balkans, the red and white checkerboard design brings fear to millions of people. The Ustasha death squads would go into villages, ask children to cross themselves and if they performed the cross from left shoulder to right shoulder, they were OK, if they did the cross from right shoulder to left shoulder as the Orthodox do, they shot them there on the spot. German officers in the Balkans reported back to their superiors that the Ustasha were barbarians, that they butchered and slaughtered innocent men women and children regardless of age. They used the words terror and atrocities to describe the Ustasha behaviour towards human beings. These were German officers!
It wasn't only the Orthodox that they butchered. They murdered Croatians, Slovens, Jews, Gypsies as well as Serbians. As Tito's partizans were becoming an increasing irritation to the Nazi's, Hitler ordered the Ustasha to kill one hundred people for every one German soldier that was killed or even injured by the Partizans and the Ustasha would round up one hundred people, Croatians, Serbians, Slovenes, whoever it didn't matter, got them to dig a trenches and then shot them dead in those trenches. This is why many Croatians also joined Tito's Partizans. Tito was a Croatian himself.
The Ustasha emblem was: View attachment 1570965 the badge that appears in the middle of the Croatian shirt at chest height is:View attachment 1570969.
Not only is the shirt predominantly red and white checkerboard but in a crude attempt to hide their allegiance to the Ustasha, they changed around the colour scheme and added a soccer ball to the bottom to turn it into a U, the Ustasha symbol.
In this World Cup where man's inhumanity to man has been brought into sharp focus, it is only appropriate that overt Croatian Fascism is also called out.
If anyone is in any doubt as to where the allegiances of the Croatian players lie, then look no further than the disgusting, heartfelt belting out of Fascists anthems by Modric, Lovran and co after Croatia played in the last World Cup Final.
I must stress that not all Croatians can be tarred with the same brush. In the Croatian diaspora in Australia, there are some wonderful human beings but by the same token, there are many, many far right supremacists as can be seen from large sections of the Sydney United fans during the FFA Cup Final who booed the Welcome To Country Ceremony and chanted Fascist filth as well as as giving Nazi salutes.
Why Croatia are allowed to get away with such blatant displays of Fascism both on their football shirts and by their players is beyond me.
I'm just waiting to hear of a Novichok link...Oh please....
The actual usage of the Croatian checkers dates back to like the 1400's.The red and white checkerboard design was part of the Ustasha insignia. The Ustasha were Nazi Germany's official police force in the Balkans and were made up of Croatian Fascists/Supremacists. Their stated aims were to converting one-third of Serbian Orthodox to Catholicism, expel one-third and kill one-third and they managed to kill one third at least.
In the Balkans, the red and white checkerboard design brings fear to millions of people. The Ustasha death squads would go into villages, ask children to cross themselves and if they performed the cross from left shoulder to right shoulder, they were OK, if they did the cross from right shoulder to left shoulder as the Orthodox do, they shot them there on the spot. German officers in the Balkans reported back to their superiors that the Ustasha were barbarians, that they butchered and slaughtered innocent men women and children regardless of age. They used the words terror and atrocities to describe the Ustasha behaviour towards human beings. These were German officers!
It wasn't only the Orthodox that they butchered. They murdered Croatians, Slovens, Jews, Gypsies as well as Serbians. As Tito's partizans were becoming an increasing irritation to the Nazi's, Hitler ordered the Ustasha to kill one hundred people for every one German soldier that was killed or even injured by the Partizans and the Ustasha would round up one hundred people, Croatians, Serbians, Slovenes, whoever it didn't matter, got them to dig a trenches and then shot them dead in those trenches. This is why many Croatians also joined Tito's Partizans. Tito was a Croatian himself.
The Ustasha emblem was: View attachment 1570965 the badge that appears in the middle of the Croatian shirt at chest height is:View attachment 1570969.
Not only is the shirt predominantly red and white checkerboard but in a crude attempt to hide their allegiance to the Ustasha, they changed around the colour scheme and added a soccer ball to the bottom to turn it into a U, the Ustasha symbol.
In this World Cup where man's inhumanity to man has been brought into sharp focus, it is only appropriate that overt Croatian Fascism is also called out.
If anyone is in any doubt as to where the allegiances of the Croatian players lie, then look no further than the disgusting, heartfelt belting out of Fascists anthems by Modric, Lovran and co after Croatia played in the last World Cup Final.
I must stress that not all Croatians can be tarred with the same brush. In the Croatian diaspora in Australia, there are some wonderful human beings but by the same token, there are many, many far right supremacists as can be seen from large sections of the Sydney United fans during the FFA Cup Final who booed the Welcome To Country Ceremony and chanted Fascist filth as well as as giving Nazi salutes.
Why Croatia are allowed to get away with such blatant displays of Fascism both on their football shirts and by their players is beyond me.
Applying Occam's razor tells me that its not too surprising a middle aged man who likely spent several sleepless and stressful nights covering the world cup, who may or may not have had an illness, suffered a heart attack, it happens. As an American citizen, his death will be scrutinised by the relevant agencies and it will be marked down as an unfortunate, random event.Any tin foil hats about the passing of US football journalist Grant Wahl?
U.S. soccer journalist Wahl dies at 48 in Qatar
Grant Wahl, a prominent US soccer writer, died early Saturday while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.www.espn.com
People saying Martin Tyler doesn't get excited should watch the replay of the England v Argentina round of 16 match from 1998.
He got pretty damn excited when an 18 year old Michael Owen scored for England, he's an England fanboy at the end of the day.
Tyler wasn't deliberately being unexcited with Netherlands goals imo. The pitch of his voice etc was the same for both teams during the match.
If Morocco wins this then the winner of France/England have one hand on the cup already.