Baz (NSW) replied:

Why, good for Greek Football, gunna have a few ouzo's tonight !!!!

Baz.

Member - JohnR (Vic) replied:

Member Eric is probably still in Lonsdale Street one could imagine.

It's great that the focus can change the attention from the normal achievers in European sport.

Baz (NSW) replied:

Thought you might like this.

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Baz.

Mungo Explorer replied:

Not Greek but German - King Otto's country :-)

GaryInOz (Vic) replied:

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I work nightshift..................
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GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

Leroy replied:

Czech inlaws......

Leroy

Member Eric replied:

Yes the Greek flag was flying on the high lift jack today , might take it off tomorrow before Mondays match , JUST in case lol

Member - Ruth D (QLD) replied:

Savvas - I'm not Greek but my kids played soccer and I coached and I think it's brilliant that Greece got in. Have just watched it on the news! Fantastic.
(Also watched SBS last night and the Greeks celebrating St Savvas name day - what a feast. Hope you went to that Butcher shop to get your lamb. Yum. Yum.)

Jimbo replied:

It's sad that so many people who choose to make this country their own still claim to be of another race. If you choose to live in this fine land become an Australian.

I am the offspring of migrants. I once asked my Grandfather "Grandad why don't you go back to England for a visit?" He said "Jimmy I came here 35 years ago for a better life, better opportunites. I left the place because I didn't want to be there anymore, and this place is so much better, except for the Fish 'n' Chips. Why would I want to go back to the cold, the damp, the cramped living?"

My Grandad is now gone and never returned to the Mother country. My mother arrived here as an eleven year old in 1956 and considers a visit to England as the same as a visit to Hong Kong; a trip to a foreign country (she has done both plus much more; the benefit of growing up in this fine land of opportunity). My mother sees herself as an Australian and nothing else, and she's a republican.

My cousin and his wife migrated from England in 1981 and I call him my Pommy cousin. Recently I called their son "young pom" amd his mother immediatley shut me down saying "He's an Aussie, not a Pom" and she's still got a broad pommy accent, God love her.

Funny how certain races really assimilate and others don't. Why do certain third generation Australians still consider themselves Greeks, Croations, Poles or whatever.

Disappoints me really.

Jim.