28.8.05
THE PASSED
- A Blow?
- BEIJING 9. Relaxing in the park.
- Beijing 8. Mother and son.
- BEIJING 7. History speaks loudly in Beijing. (they...
- BEIJING 6. According to my friend, the oldest brid...
- BEIJING 5. The Olympics..are you going?
- BEIJING 4. The city in the distance.
- BEIJING 3. Beijing buddy.
- BEIJING 2. Walking in the hills
- BEIJING 1. hutong life is slow and peaceful
4 Comments:
I say you should really have some caption competitions with photos like that.
"Come on then Didier. My muscles are so big, this shirt doesn't even fit me properly!"
(says Dez whilst eating Baskin & Robbins Pralines & Cream Ice Cream)
Good idea...msybe once a week I'll post a prem pic. and you can do the caption?
You aint never going to be fat dez (unlike me). so carry on.
I'm almost over it now.
James (youth group) can join in too!
Just in case - you're interested:
"Can anyone tell me why the Spurs emblem is a chicken on a beach ball?" asks Fang Xiwen, in Beijing.
Ken Ferris's book, 'Football: Terms and Teams', published in 2005, can probably best deal with your query, Fang. "The club badge consists of a cockerel standing above a football marked with the initials THFC, flanked by a lion on each side, taken from the Northumberland family crest," explains Ferris. "The badge is related to Harry Hotspur's riding spurs, since fighting cocks were once fitted out with miniature spurs. The full club crest clearly shows these.
"The cockerel and ball first appeared in 1909 when former player William James Scott cast a copper statue to perch on the new West Stand," he adds.
"The cockerel motif has been used on the shirts since the 1921 FA Cup final when Spurs became the first and so far only amateur team to win the trophy. The badge also includes at the top left a representation of Bruce Castle, the sixteenth-century building that now houses the local council's museum covering the history of Haringey. The museum is situated off Bruce Grove, a couple of miles from the ground. At the top right are seven trees planted at Page Green by the seven sisters of Tottenham after whom Seven Sisters Road and the Tube station are named."
(Sorry if you knew all that.)
Thanks dez! I didn't know all that. I knew about harry hotspur and the fighting cocks but not the local info, and Sven's sisters etc.
Cheers Dez. I don't like to guess about the 'Red Devils' at old Trafford!!!
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