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BBC World Cup Stories

  • 12-06-2006 3:21am
    #1
    kinaldo
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    Did anyone happen to catch Italy: The Enemy Within on BBC2 last night? I was absolutely glued to the TV for an hour and was sorry I no longer own a VCR for I fear this won't be repeated for another 4 years. The interviews and footage of Italy's 30's triumphs during Mussolini's fascist regime were fascinating, as was Paulo Rossi's amazing comeback in Spain '82. This was the last in a series of six documentaries all of which I'm sorry to have missed. I'd particularly loved to have seen the Argentina and Germany ones.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/4977066.stm

    RTE also showed an interesting documentary on Germany's road to victory in '74 last week. I could watch that sh1t all day.


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  • #2
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,225 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    kinaldo wrote:
    Did anyone happen to catch Italy: The Enemy Within on BBC2 last night? I was absolutely glued to the TV for an hour and was sorry I no longer own a VCR for I fear this won't be repeated for another 4 years. The interviews and footage of Italy's 30's triumphs during Mussolini's fascist regime were fascinating, as was Paulo Rossi's amazing comeback in Spain '82. This was the last in a series of six documentaries all of which I'm sorry to have missed. I'd particularly loved to have seen the Argentina and Germany ones.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/4977066.stm

    RTE also showed an interesting documentary on Germany's road to victory in '74 last week. I could watch that sh1t all day.

    so far all those programmes were much more entertaining than the games so far(baring germany and argentinas wins)


  • #3
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Also, I'm sure there's a good reason for it but I could never understand why Italy always wear blue. I love how they wore blackshirts against Les Blues, in France!


  • #4
    Ponster
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    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051819504

    The Italian national team wear blue because it is the colour of Savoia, the ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until the end of the second world war, the Italian flag always had the Savoy coat of arms in the centre, and it was only after the family were overthrown,and the Italian Republic established in 1946, that the plain tricolor was adopted as the national flag


  • #5
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Ponster wrote:
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051819504

    The Italian national team wear blue because it is the colour of Savoia, the ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until the end of the second world war, the Italian flag always had the Savoy coat of arms in the centre, and it was only after the family were overthrown,and the Italian Republic established in 1946, that the plain tricolor was adopted as the national flag

    ok then, so why do Japan always wear blue?


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