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Gibraltar celebrates becoming UEFA 54th member with a 54p stamp
A stamp has been issued to commemorate Gibraltar’s historic achievement of becoming the 54th Uefa member. The Government opted for a 54p value as Gibraltar is now the 54th member country. Stephen Perera photographed the embroidered badge from a new GFA team jersey and the GFA’s founding year of 1895 is clearly visible for the world to see Read full article
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Jun 04th, 2013 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0this must be seen as some sort of Gibraltar 1; Spain 0.
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Jun 04th, 2013 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UEFA have instructed that Gibraltar and Spain will be kept apart in qualifying groups on order that Spain can pretend Gibraltarians don't exist, or perhaps to avoid a repetition of previous encounters.
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2011/07/30/outrage-as-scandalous-incident-sees-kids-football-team-abused-at-tournament/
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Jun 04th, 2013 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0... as we always suspected, the 'Draw' for who-plays-who is fixed.
... but still less 'fixed' than the UN C24.
Be a real laugh if they met each other in a final!!
Jun 04th, 2013 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spain should always refuse to met NOT another country, but some part of their own territory militarily occupied and in dispute with UK, in a football match.......its impossible to play in that conditions
Jun 04th, 2013 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5 Malen
Jun 05th, 2013 - 05:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Last summer Morocco played football against Spain at the Olympics. They didn't seem to think it was a problem.
What is your view on international treaties? Should they honoured or simply ignored at the whim of Nationalists?
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