- Oct 17, 2008
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He’s having two weeks holiday like the rest of the players at the WC.Joking aside, he should be on the subs bench. Important game and might be needed for the last half hour if it's not going to plan.
Literally 3 wordsWelbz speaks good Spanish.
Exactly.Literally 3 words
Not having it, I demand to be offended. Argie OUTIt's not An Anti-english song though is it.
It's a pro - Argentinian song- with a silly reference to the Falklands war in it.
If you’re a Chelsea fan or journalist. In the real world around £80mHow much is he worth now then ? 40m?
Newsflash: A lot of Brits feel that the islands in the Argentinian sea should be Argentinian too, especially the Malvinas. After all, we’d been negotiating the return of the islands for 16 years prior to the war. After the war, it’s become impossible to for a political party to have a sensible debate about it because it upsets vets and the far right too much. In essence, if one of your family died protecting those islands from a dictatorship, you might believe their sacrifice is wasted if the U.K just hand back the rocks. The only solution is time. The Islands will be handed back when Britain has come to terms with losing its empire. The Brexit vote should tell you that it will take many more years for that to happen.Newsflash: Argentinians feel that islands in the Argentinian sea should be Argentinian.
You can be offended by that, of course. Or accept that people have different opinions on certain subjects.
What about what the inhabitants feel, doesn’t that matter too?Newsflash: A lot of Brits feel that the islands in the Argentinian sea should be Argentinian too, especially the Malvinas. After all, we’d been negotiating the return of the islands for 16 years prior to the war. After the war, it’s become impossible to for a political party to have a sensible debate about it because it upsets vets and the far right too much. In essence, if one of your family died protecting those islands from a dictatorship, you might believe their sacrifice is wasted if the U.K just hand back the rocks. The only solution is time. The Islands will be handed back when Britain has come to terms with losing its empire. The Brexit vote should tell you that it will take many more years for that to happen.
British sovereignty over the Falklands is an absurd imperial hangover that must end | Falkland Islands | The Guardian
Forty years after the war in the South Atlantic, common sense demands a negotiated settlement with Argentina, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkinsamp.theguardian.com