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A festival of cricket for the Falklands
The cricketers of the Falkland Islands may become regular visitors to Scotland if plans for further stagings of the 'Festival of the Three Falklands' cricket festival are realised, according to a report from the Live Cricket web site. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesArgentina's much closer, and our teams (Hurlingham, Lomas Athletic, &c) would be happy of having you here. Question is if ours are up to standard. Not much is played here lately, I'm afraid...
Aug 13th, 2010 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No-one in their right minds goes to Argentina. Particularly not Falkland Islanders!
Aug 13th, 2010 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and definitely not with cheats, who will invariably storm of if they lose,
Aug 13th, 2010 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oops originally posted on the wrong article.
Aug 15th, 2010 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argie seems to forget that last year the Falkland Islands Cricket Club was due to tour South America, after all sport shouldn't get in the way of politics. Pity Argentina didn't feel that way as they spat their dummy out and had the tournament stopped.
It was an ICC sanctioned tournament in Chile. The Chileans invited us and were keen for us to play. The Argentines said if we played they wouldn't. Like the kind people we are we did not wish to embarass our Chilean friends and withdrew, allowing the tournament to proceed.
Aug 16th, 2010 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Funny isn't it, when Bielsa became the Arg Foreign Minister with Nestor K. one of his first utterances on the Falklands was that in the long term interest Argentina had to make itself attractive to the people of the Falkland Islands. He then started listening to that silly old fart Garcia del Solar and for ever since Argentina has been doing exactly the opposite.
One day somebody will finally wake up with a brilliant new idea about being attractive............then we might see you at Hurlingham, but don't hold your breath...
(5) Stillakelper
Aug 17th, 2010 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0“One day somebody will finally wake up with a brilliant new idea about being attractive............then we might see you at Hurlingham, but don't hold your breath.....”
We are not..... ..........And you better begin to plant some veggie gardens as the honorable Emma proposed the other day.......
6£ for a lettuce.... it's a scandal!
It appears that I'm not conversant with this sports' present mishaps with the country which saw me playing cricket... ahhh... 55 years ago! Sorry chaps.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never mind, Argie. Move to the Falkland Islands. Live, and play cricket, with proper people.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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