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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Is being a Football Hooligan from the Land of the Angles a positive trait in the classroom ? An astonishing number of Saudi students are 'au fait' with English Football. I suppose it is one of the few real interests that our charges have.

Personally I rather disapprove of my colleagues who show up for class wearing their 'football colours'. Maybe I would feel differently if they wore Rangers or Aberdeen strips.

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:09 am Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I can show you parts of Donegal where Glaswegian is more widely understood than English !

Both sides of the sectarian divide in Ireland have Scottish connections !

And my preference for Scottish strips is not confined to Rangers. I would even accept Glasgow Celtic or Hibernian !

007 · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: Re: English Football Hooligans

abinara · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 12 Location: cloud 10

Hi Scot47 and Cleopatra

In my limited experience i found that being a football fan was one of the few things i had in common with the students in KSA and in Libya

Along with "coffee break" ...."David Beckam" ....needs no translation.

However, I'm curious about what kind of place allows teachers to turn up in football shirts.....sounds very relaxed.

As to Rangers shirts in West Belfast...you'll find that they are just as common in East Belfast......and the Scots-Irish connections as I'm sure you're both aware are long standing, slightly more complicated than most of the world's media allows for, and have the added complication of living in the shadow of English/European power politics...historically speaking.

So, most football fans in N. Ireland support a local team...a Scottish team...and an English team.....

many of the Libyans I knew supported European teams..eg Juventus..or Barcelona....and a colleague of mine in KSA regularly used a game called "grammar football" to secure the interest of his otherwise reluctant students .

long live the "beautiful game"

007 · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:47 am Post subject: Re: football and arab students

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

Abinara is right. Male Saudis are au fait with European football and anybody coming here to teach them might find it useful to familiarise himself with the Saudi soccer scene. His students will appreciate it and it will provide material for discussion.
Interesting that Scot47 titles his post English Football Hooligans. Our latest embarrassment here in Spain was the visit of the 'Gers to Pamplona. Ineptitude on the pitch and boorishness on the terraces.

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Cleo is a left-footer. Ulster Scots are generally of the other persuasion.

I consider myself to be in the long tradition of Presbyterian Republicans.

007 · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

We seem to have strayed far from the OP's question about teachers wearing Chelsea FC strips in class.

Acceptable or not ?

Cleopatra · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

The ones advertising Newcastle Brown, McEwan's Export and Tennant's Lager should DEFINITELY be banned.