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  1. PowerSpurs

    PowerSpurs Well-Known Member

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    This is going to sound a bit pedantic but you shouldn't use AC as a short title for AC Milan. It would be like using FC as a short title for say Liverpool FC.
    AC means 'football club' in Italian.
     
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  2. Wandering Yid

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    Very pedantic!

    Perfectly common way of differentiating between 'AC' and 'Inter', who incidentally use F.C.
     
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  3. PowerSpurs

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    Only in England! In Italy they are called Milan and Inter. The English spelling of Milan is deliberate as they were called that in honour of the inventors of the game.
     
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  4. humanbeingincroydon

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    Turns out we're not the only sports team in the world with ludicrous allegations of racism against us - in the NFL, middle class white people are saying how offensive it is that a team is called the Washington Redskins, yet the Native American community don't find this offensive in the slightest, due to not believing the term is offensive and pointing out they've been called much, much worse.

    When members of one minority are telling members of another minority what they should find offensive, be it the hand-wringers in the case of the Redskins or the likes of Peter Herbert and David Baddiel with us, it underlines how utterly baseless their "concerns" are and how pointless it is to give them airtime.
     
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  5. totsfan

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    They are the nfl team i support,have done since the 80's when American football was on channel 4 on Sunday afternoons
     
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  6. littleDinosaurLuke

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    Yes <ok> and Inter are Internazionale - no mention of Milan. The Milan reference has been added by others as Glasgow has been added to Celtic and Rangers, to define them geographically.
     
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    Not entirely accurate, IIRC. They were formed by Englishmen as a cricket club, like all the great sides... <whistle>
     
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  8. littleDinosaurLuke

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    Yes, Alberto Heckmondthwaitini used to come in at no.11, but finished up opening the batting.

    What are cover point and square leg in Italian? :huh:
     
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  9. PowerSpurs

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    I think you are right about their original name but their own web-site now calls them FC Internazionale Milano and their badge has FCIM so I guess that changed.
     
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  10. PowerSpurs

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    According to wiki they were forced to use the Italian spelling by Mussolini's government but have since changed back.
     
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  11. SpursDisciple

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    I am fast becoming a big fan of Holtby

    [video=youtube;0bm9lKmA-TM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0bm9lKmA-TM[/video]
     
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  12. humanbeingincroydon

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    Yes, i'm hated!!<cracker>
     
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  14. No Kane No Gain

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    Speaking of tricky Schalke players they've got another one coming through - Max Meyer. Looks like one to watch.
     
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  15. The Mighty Thor

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    Chiriches to Chelsea in the gossip already. What's the lure of Chelsea these days and why do they want our players, we don't seem to want many of theirs do we?
     
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  16. notsosmartspur

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  18. humanbeingincroydon

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    I sincerely hope Virgin's planes work a lot better than their internet connection does...
     
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    I could not agree more. They're pretty disgraceful.
     
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  20. No Kane No Gain

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    Yeah, I switched over to Sky, it's not quite as fast but it's never gone down. With Virgin it was every couple of months it would be down for a few days because of a fault or maintenance.
     
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