Brotherly Love

My brother and I are big Football fans, I support AC Milan and he backs Arsenal. So naturally, coming up to todays Champions League final in Athens between Milan and Liverpool, there was a bit of niggle between the two of us. In light of todays result (Milan beat Liverpool 2-1), I thought I would post one of our email conversations for your enjoyment. And mine. Tehehe

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Curtis
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:24 AM
To: Andrew Curtis
Subject: You're going down


Just found this at Wikipedia:


· AC Milan chose to wear their all-white strip for the final in Athens, despite being drawn as the "home" team for the match. This is due to the kit being their "maglia fortunata" (Italian: lucky kit), having won the European Cup/Champions League in this kit on five out of the six times they have won it. However, they have lost finals in this kit twice, most recently against Liverpool in 2005.

· This decision by Milan means that Liverpool will play the final in their traditional home kit of red shirts, red shorts and red socks. Each of Liverpool's five European Cup titles have been won in their all-red strip, and two of these came when they were playing against Italian teams who played in all-white.

Bring it!

-----REPLY------
From: Andrew Curtis
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:29 PM
To: Stephen Curtis
Subject: RE: You're going down

3 things

a.) Big talk from a guy whose team didn’t even make the quarters. Judgment in picking a winning team is already questionable.

b.) Only losers rely on superstition to win finals

c.) Didn’t you back France to win the world cup against Italy? In case you forgot, this was a match decided by a penalty shootout which Italy had never previously triumphed in at world cup level.


consider it brung ; )


Andrew

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Ahhhh, good times.