Tweeting has become the new booing almost in that you know that tweeters are probably subjecting people to inane utterings. Tweeting reminds me of a great Denis Thatcher quote (and there weren’t that many!) that: it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt!
Anyway it’s Multicultural round…and with the Olympics not too far away…let’s salute the national/regional flags in our AFL teams’ colours…some took ages to find. All c/- flags.net on google. Fremantle couldn’t actually be confirmed (via CIA website, flags.net, Qatar search on google…)
Adelaide Romania, Chad
Brisbane Colombia and Venezuela
Carlton Scotland
Collingwood Brittany and Corsica – provinces in France
Essendon Albania
Fremantle Azores? Qatar? – the jury is still out…Italy too with a splash of purple in past years…
Geelong Finland
Gold Coast Spain, Macedonia and Vietnam
Greater Western Sydney Northern Territory
Hawthorn Murcia in Spain…the closest. Possibly rusty colour…
Melbourne Haiti, Samoa
North Melbourne Greece, Honduras, Israel, UN and Micronesia
Port Adelaide Estonia, Botswana…closest – more pale blue than teal.
Richmond Baden-Wurrtemburg in Germany
St.Kilda Germany (yes – know your history people*!), Yemen, Trinidad and Tobago, Maori flag(NZ), Aboriginal flag (Australia)
Sydney Japan, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, England, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Poland, Latvia
West Coast Sweden, European Union, Ukraine
Western Bulldogs Serbia, France, Croatia, Cambodia, Chile, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Holland, Iceland, North Korea, Norway, Russia…..and god know how many others!
* St.Kilda used to wear the Cheltenham FC colours of red, black and yellow. The white replaced the yellow soon after WWII due to the German legacy.
In all seriousness/curiosity, would be interested to know if this is why amateur club AJAX wears black, red and white….? Anyone?
Re GWS: imaginative, and very close, but no cigar.
Ochre + black =/= orange + charcoal.
Greater Western Sydney’s colours are actually closest to those flaunted on World Harmony Day, so rather than being restricted by the artificial constraints of national borders (which are, truth be told, only recognised by one species on this planet), it’s more a case of giant hugs all round, for everybody – everywhere.
(C’mon, feel the lurve!)