Quidditch World Cup - Irish vs English

antoshachekhonte antoshachekhonte at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 27 00:04:40 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 97041

> Geoff:
> It is usual in the UK that, if Ireland is mentioned in a sporting 
> sense - football, Rugby Union etc - it is usually the Republic being 
> discussed. Ulster would normally be referred to as Northern Ireland.
>  \\

Antosha: 
Um, another point--Scotland, even though a member state of the UK (much to the 
disgruntlement of many Scots I know)--competes with it's own team at the football 
(soccer, that is) World Cup.

So that doesn't give us much to go on.





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