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posted 27-06-2008 11:48
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The Man U fans at work always claim Pat Crerand and McClair as lefties. I think they reckon Crerand signed up to the Anti-Nazi League.
Ferguson's apprentice strike days get him some cred.
Maradona, with his Che tattoos and loud support for Chavez and Morales must be obvious to start at no. 10?
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posted 27-06-2008 12:00
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Javier Zanetti's spoken up on behalf of the Zapatistas in the past, hasn't he?
McClair's anti-Thatcherite creds are listed here, along with a few other examples of left-leaning football types.
edit: and there's more examples in the follow-up article here, too.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:01
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Brian McClair strikes me as being a seriously cool footballer.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:13
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Mention of Thuram in the right wing thread reminds me he took some very public stands in French politics in the last few years.
The FFF (French FA) HQ was occupied by players during May 68, and a banner hung out the balcony: 'Le football aux footballeurs' but I've never seen a list of participants or if any of them were/became big players.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:17
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Mention of the Buffon shirt numbering business on the right-wing thread prompted me to look up exactly why 88 is linked with Neo-Nazism. A quick wiki search threw up the obvious (which I'd already guessed at), and linked to the number 14...
Maybe Johann Cruyff belongs in the other thread. And Thierry Henry too...
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posted 27-06-2008 12:18
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Fuck off is Fowler getting in this team. He's a property owning slum lord.
Sigh.
Yes, Robbie Fowler invested his money in property.
So did Gary Neville, but I don't suppose you've got much to say about that.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:21
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Fucking right I haven't.
Besides, Gary Neville is a union shop steward and dangerous revolutionary. His credentials are impeccable. In the team he goes. Great suggestion Rhinoceros.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:32
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Manager: Egil Olsen, surely. (sorry, did I just ruin what could have been a good side?)
Lars Bohinen boicotted a friendly against France in 1985 in protest against French nuclear testing in the pacific. Not sure if he's that left-wing really or if that was just an ad hoc action. Nonetheless, I nominate him for a place in central midfield.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:37
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St Pauli
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posted 27-06-2008 12:38
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Didn't Wim van Hanegem refuse to go to Argentina '78 in protest at torture/the Junta?
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posted 27-06-2008 12:38
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It was Steve Perryman who was the dangerous labour voter in the Spurs team.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:39
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And now that I'm racking my brain, which team was it that refused to play a match in the Santiago stadium in Chile, becuase it had been a site of torture and execution?
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posted 27-06-2008 12:41
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The USSR refused to play Chile in the second leg of the 1974 World Cup play off
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posted 27-06-2008 12:45
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Christian Karembeu protested against the nuclear testing near New Caledonia.
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posted 27-06-2008 12:48
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Refused to play in the 1982 World Cup finals in protest against the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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