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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    What world cup are you watching?? Forza Italia, brilliant match, fantastic quality from both sides, and oh so rewarding and satisfying to see the 2-faced cheating arrogant diving git called Ballack cry at the end Italia played like world champions today - and Del Piero: legend
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Witty. Unfortunately for him, Greece is European Champion for another 2 years, so please tell him to go away
  3. There's no need for such a statement.
  4. Please do not take threads off-topic with irrelevant questions. If you have a question which has not been answered before, make a new thread. Using the Search function in your quest will be helpful
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    The rules of the forum still apply, despite the football heartbreak. Stay on topic, and don't post like a Sun/Bild author.
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    Tour de France 2006

    What a farce so far
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    "How do you say 'cheating' in French?" We could ask ask it in spanish too to make a nice billingual dictionnary including aragones' racial slurs too. I saw a quite a few fouls from the spaniards, and IMHO they did more than the french. Cheating is said "tricher"(verb) or "tricherie"(noun) in french (pronounce tr-ee-sh-ay or tr-ee-sh-a-r-ee). You're not getting the reference....
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    "How do you say 'cheating' in French?"
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Henry, you do Rivaldo proud Two-faced, hypocritical git, ESPECIALLY after his whining after the CL finale. Spain lacked bite until Garcia and Joaquin came on, and probably would have gone out regardless (sure looked that way), but Henry is the match loser for me in this one. The WC started off so nicely too, the Italians and the entire 2nd round ruined it though
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Shevchenko knows how to take apart Italian defences, should be very interesting indeed
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    What a disgrace of a match, chuck that ref out of Fifa. So much promise, ruined by a crap ref Ah well, based on todays performances, Portugal to win 2-0.
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    What a load of rubbish, Lampard had a shocker.....AGAIN, Terry (man of the match - wtf ) looked like a Conference defender facing a Premiership side, Robinson had a few howlers, and once again, wtf is up with the substitutions Sven?? Holland/Portugal, please do everyone a favour and bomb that excuse of a team out of the tournament. I want my 90 mins back, that was woeful.
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Lol, no es paisano! Soy de Grecia pero yo gusto mucho la Espana y Argentina, y las mujeres de Espana y Argentina Yo hablo poco Espanol, pero apprendaro Espanol con las amigas y con las libras y con internet. I hope that made sense News update: the Germans and their press are saying "after yesterday, we don't fear Argentina" and "argentina showed they are beatable" and, the best comment, Lahm saying "we don't need to raise our game to beat Argentina" Liebe Leute, Konfuzius selbst sagte schon: Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall! I would order some humble pie if I was you What are the bets for today? I have a feeling Ecuador will do a Greece and knock England out, though it might be wishful thinking, simple to get the tacky car-flags off the streets 4-5-1 will make it very difficult for those two Ecuadorian wingers to do their mazy runs though... As for Holland - Portugal - I anticipate a great match and a cricket score, I would probably put my money on Holland though...
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Vamos a ganar, Argentina Sorry Germany, the fun ends here
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Very disappointing match.
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    Looking for two songs

    It's on iTunes for Å0.79, or on Napster for $0.99 (in the bottom screen). For future reference - this is too OT for OT and all future music searching threads shall be closed.
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    Couldn't be bothered with the first match (went "window-shopping" in pompey instead ), 2nd one made me go to sleep, so did the third one. I think I am losing interest
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    Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

    This is quite disturbing. I thought this time they were selling tickets by profiling hooligans beforehand or something akin to that. I really dont understand why people feel the need to taunt others especially when your being hosted by that nation. Its stupid not to mention rude and it becomes stereotypical and racial when you bring in things NOT related to football like WW2. People who engage in such behaviour should be deported asap. Its a game , why dont people treat it as such. Football is war Seriously though, England won't win shit if they play like this. Germany - steady eddy, can see them struggling real bad in the back once they come up against decent opposition. Poland and Ecuador - poor. Costa Rica - I reckon they could squeeze into 2nd place. Wanchope - City legend
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    Catalunya and Athens

    <span style='color:darkgreen'><span style='font-family:tahoma'>During the Christian-Arab wars in the course of the Reconquista in the Iberian peninsula, two powerful kingdoms emerged from under the Moor yoke – the Kingdoms of Aragon and the Kingdom of Catalunya. These two powerful kingdoms that ruled the north-eastern part of what is now modern Spain, joined forces and territories in 1137 A.D. when Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, married Petronila of Aragon (aged 2 at that time). The new combined kingdom was known as “Crown of Aragon†or “Catalan-Aragonese Confederation†and it would continue to exist for almost 600 years until it was incorporated into the Spanish Kingdom during the Wars of Spanish Succession. The crest of the Crown of Aragon Almost 70 years after the creation of the “Crown of Aragonâ€, a tragedy took place in the Eastern Mediterranean when the Fourth Crusade invaded and destroyed Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. The capture and pillage of Constantinople resulted in the complete collapse of the Byzantine Empire and the Crusaders took full advantage of the subsequent power vacuum, settling in many different parts of the once proud Empire. One of these Crusaders, Otto de la Roche of Burgundia, went to Athens and set up the Duchy of Athens in 1205. His family would continue to rule over the Duchy of Athens for over 100 years, until the Duchy passed over to Walter V of Brienne in 1308. In the meantime, the Byzantine Empire had re-established itself with Constantinople as its capital, albeit not much remained of its original splendour. Nevertheless, a new enemy had made themselves noticeable – the Ottoman Turks. As part of the ongoing war between the Christian and the Muslim world, Roger de Flor had raised the so-called Catalan Company in 1302, formed of former soldiers of the “Crown of Aragonâ€. In 1303, de Flor offered help to the Byzantine Empire against the advancing Ottoman Turks, and the then Emperor Adronicus Palaeologus promptly accepted. De Flor landed with 1500 Catalan Knights and 4000 Almogavars (Catalan-Aragonese Infantry) at Constantinople and set over to Anatolia. Following decisive victories over the Ottomans, the Catalan Company took control of large areas of Anatolia and made Gallipolli their home base. A Catalan Knight However, frictions and tensions arose quickly between the Catalans and the Byzantine Empire and the former allies soon started to wage war against each other in 1305. Though the Byzantine Forces won quick victories at the beginning, including the slaying of Roger de Flor, the tide soon turned against them and the remains of the Catalan Company unleashed the infamous “Catalan Revengeâ€, which would see them devastate and decimate large areas of Thrace and Macedonia. Five years later, Walter V of Brienne, who had been in power in Athens for 2 years, offered employment to the Catalan Company in order to vanquish his enemies in Northern Greece. The Catalans agreed and quickly won the war for Brienne. However, Brienne and the Catalans quickly fell out with each other when they started quarrelling over pay and land issues – Brienne did not want to pay them their promised wage, and wanted the region of Thessaly, occupied by the Catalans, handed over to him. These disagreements eventually led to open combat and in 1311, at the Battle of Halmyros, the Catalans destroyed Brienne’s army and killed him in combat. With Brienne’s forces routed and leaderless, the Catalans marched upon Athens and, after sacking the ancient city of Thebes, marched into Athens and claimed her for themselves. The Catalan-Aragonese Confederation at its height Since in medieval times rule could only be exercised by royalty, the surviving Catalans offered the Duchy of Athens to the Sicilese ruler, Frederik II, himself a governor for the “Crown of Aragonâ€. Thus, the Duchy of Athens was incorporated into the “Crown of Aragonâ€. The first ten or so years saw the Catalan forces of Athens battle the Venetian forces in the region until a cease fire was declared in 1319. These years also saw Catalan be introduced as an official court language and the Duchy of Athens enjoyed the existence of a virtually self-governing municipality. The 1320s saw tensions rise between the Catalan inhabitants of Athens and the Catholic Church, who grew concerned at the rising number of Catalan apostates joining the Orthodox Church. In the 1330s, the Ottoman Turks had reached the Mediterranean once again and had started to wage war against mainland Greece. The Catalans resisted successfully, however. In 1367, Turkish forces broke through the Catalan defences and almost managed to take the Acropolis, but were once again thwarted. Over the years, Catalan rule became inefficient and the Duchy of Athens became poorer and the population started to dwindle. In 1377, civil war broke out when it was unclear who the next ruler would be. Peter IV eventually came out on top, defeating forces loyal to Sicily and reinstating Aragonese control over Sicily, and assumed sovereignty over the Duchy in 1381. However, Peter ruled from Barcelona and never travelled to Athens. With the Duchy weakened by Civil war, Florentine forces set up base in Boeotia and Corinth and increased their numbers until in 1388, Nerio Accajuoli, insulted by the refusal of a Catalan countess to marry him, marched towards Athens and captured the city. The King of Naples conferred upon Nerio the title of Duke of Athens and the Duchy of Athens was thus incorporated into the Kingdom of Naples. The surviving Catalans, soldiers and civilians, fled Greece for Sicily and Southern Italy without leaving much of a trace. Athens would not be ruled by Greeks again until 1444.</span></span>
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    Catalunya and Athens

    But are Catalans Greeks? And why until 1444, what happend that year? Of course its true, I don't make history up The Catalans are from Catalunya, the region around Barcelona, so they are Spanish (although if you ask a modern day Barcelona resident, he will tell you he's a Catalonian ) and not Greeks. In 1444, after a brief spell of Venetian rule, Athens came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire again, under Constantine Palalealogus who would perish in 1453 in the defence of Constantinople. Athens would then fall to the Ottomans in 1456.
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    Cyprus Armed forces mod?

    Gokhan, that's the second time you have resurrected a dead thread and started political debate. If you wish to have a political debate, we have the Off-Topic forum for this. And please start realising that you can not open year-old topics. Why didn't anyone RTM this blatant rule breach?
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    Community: LOOK AT YOURSELVES!

    Play nice.
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    Our sympathies to greek people

    Thank you
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