From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: More Footie
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:21:42 +0100



From: Dave Coull <d.y.coull-AT-dundee.ac.uk>


Andy wrote

>Hang on a minute, as you were formerly a Malone,
>you have to support Mick McCarthy's boys against Turkey.
>It's a sort of birth/tribal thing that transcends any desire
>for peaceful cooperation and mutuality.  You can't swap
>allegiances to the Scots through marriage [!].

Look, you troublemaking Sassenach marriage-wrecker,
my wife's granny was Isobel Robertson, from West Lothian.
Keri is a fully paid up member of Clann Donnachaidh.

>We're talking religion here.

Religion ? Hmmmmm?

Religion doesn't come into it. The only reason Nadja
isn't going to Saint Fergus's school is because, when
I saw their school team playing, I didn't like their colour
scheme, and they seemed to be kicking with the wrong foot.

Dave


England could do with a few left-footers. Though it pains me, as a Chelsea
supporter, to say it, Le Saux isn't that good and Guppy was a bit peripheral
against Belgium. Are the Dundee teams divided on sectarian grounds?  I once
painted a Subbuteo team for Clydebank [bet no-one else had one]  because at
the time they had a cool red diagonal stripe on the shirts.

Andy