I was actually trying to be funny - I checked United's historic kits in case you still wore the much classier Newton Heath yellow and green halves but they changed to red in 1905 or sometime. The founding date of Zenith was all I could come up with...
Newell's Old Boys in Argentina. You don't get much more English-sounding than that - the club was named by ex-pupils of the English High School of Rosario in homage to its director and football coach, English immigrant Isaac Newell.
Panathinaikos : In 1918, player Michalis Papazoglou proposed that the club adopt the shamrock as its emblem. He used to have it sewn on his shirt since he was competing for a club in his native Chalcedon, Constantinople. Papazoglou was inspired by William Sherring, an Irish Canadian athlete who had won the Athens 1906 Olympic Marathon wearing a white shirt with a big green shamrock on it. The team's jersey colours are green and white, although the white sometimes is omitted, used as trim or as an alternative. During the first years after the establishment of green as Panathinaikos' primary colour, players were wearing green shirts, white shorts and green socks. Since then, the uniform style has changed many times but green has always remained the team's primary colour.
Someone told me it was a pair of boys from paisley that introduced football to Brazilians, anyone know if thats a heap of ****e or no?
What happened between 1939 and 1945 was just a minor skirmish similar to the US war in Vietnam in 1982.
Probably i also got told they where doctors or some ****e like that so chances are they where chibbin' them. Could've been worse it could've been priests buggering them.
Archie McLean - football played to the samba and schooled fae the toon. I assumed ER's 48 thing was deliberate. While we're on the subject of British sounding names for foreign teams.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Darkies
No I obviously knew you were taking the piss but just pointed out Zenit weren't around then. Anybody know if Young Boys of Bern have any ties to a British team?
Yeah - sure I posted about this before. Boca Juniors wore black and white hoops (along with another Buenos Aires team) and played a game to see who got the rights to wear the colours - Boca lost and the owner said they would take the colours of the next ship to enter the harbour - the next ship was Swedish. Also, Boca and River Plate both originated in the Boca region (hence River's port-related Anglified name) but a similar game was played and the losers (River) agreed to move out of Boca. Thought of another South African team with a cool name please log in to view this image
