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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v AZ Alkmaar

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  1. The Changing Man

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    Surely it should be Aah Zee then not Aah Zed!
     
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    So the claim is that they're not saying "R" they're saying "AH"? Thanks for clearing that up.

    (Although I suspect some of them really are saying "R", possibly the ones still saying Jack Wiltshire.)
     
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    The Dutch pronounce the last letter in the alphabet zed.
     
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    tut tut
     
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    It can be confusing if a Dutch or German person is spelling a word for you. Many years ago, I got on the wrong tram because I mistook AH for R . :biggrin:
     
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    The club Youtube highlights have the whole move for the third goal:

    Not sure why TNT decided to start halfway through.
     
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    It's not consistent though....eg surely it should either be Bayern Munchen or Bavaria Munich.
     
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  8. HamburgSpur

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    It is Bayern München officially, Bayern Munich is a commonly used form though outside of Germany, especially in English speaking countries.
     
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    That's why I watch football. When the poetry happens, it stays in the memory. We often see great individual goals but great team goals are rarer. Everyone in the right place at the right time. Everyone's touch perfect and that little bit of extra magic, in this case provided by Solanki.
    For most of footballs existence this would not have been recorded but this was. We can run it again and again and remind ourselves that this is the Spurs we want to see and every so often it happens.
     
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    Was that Grey with the turn and bringing the ball out of defence ? That was a thing of beauty, the way he let the ball run
     
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  11. The Changing Man

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    That was Maddison, Gray received the ball initially from Vic
     
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    And Maddison I would argue. Letting the ball run through and running away from the attempted fouls was excellent. The pass forward was exactly right too.
     
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    That's right, everyone played their part. Maddison made it happen everyone else picked that up and finished it great team work.
     
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    Normalise calling them Bavaria München!
     
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    I think it's just stuck now.
    Sporting Lisbon and Inter Milan are similar in that neither are their actual names.
    AC Milan is right though, as they were formed by a bunch of Englishmen.
     
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  16. PowerSpurs

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    AC is just the equivalent of FC though so it should just be Milan. I don't think many Italians would put the AC in....
     
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    I don't think Italian pundits say the Merseyside Derby is between Liverpool FC and Ever Liverpool, but ours have said the equivalent for the Milan derby for decades

    It's as inept as calling an MLS franchise Real Salt Lake
     
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    You'd think so, but there's not much of a standard in Italy, for some reason.
    A lot use FC at either end of their name and there are lots of exceptions to that, too.
    SS Lazio, SSC Napoli, Genoa Cricket and Football Club (CFC), US Lecce, AS Roma...
    I think Monza might be the only AC in Serie A and that's due to a rebrand after bankruptcy in 2004.
     
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  19. KingHotspur

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    Or The Harry Kane team
     
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    Funny thing.Trump wants USA to speak English as their national language.I'm from London and they can't understand me sometimes.......because they speak AMERICAN,a screwed up type of English!
     
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