Top players in football shirts?
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Top players in football shirts?
The Guardian's long-running football column, The Knowledge, has been carrying an item on sports stars wearing the shirts of their favourite teams during competition. Do people know of any photos of top chessplayers doing the same?
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Ivanchuk comes to mind. Is "his" team Real Madrid?JustinHorton wrote:Do people know of any photos of top chessplayers doing the same?
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Re: Top players in football shirts?
Vasilios Kotronias seems to have a strikingly large wardrobe of football shirts of various clubs.
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Re: Top players in football shirts?
Here's Lev Aronian...but what's the team?
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The shirt is, I think, Athletic Bilbao.
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Re: Top players in football shirts?
Kotronias. (Though again, what's the team?)
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I seem to remeber Paul Motwani wearing all sorts of football shirts at the British Championships.
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Re: Top players in football shirts?
David Eggleston frequently wears a Newcastle United shirt to chess events.
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I used to wear a lot of Arsenal shirts but got so much abuse going into pubs after playing chess that they are now only worn when I feel I can do so safely. After the fortnight the team have just had I would probably be far safer now though
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Re: Top players in football shirts?
That's an Ajax shirt. They've recently changed sponsor to AEGON, so the infamous vertical ABN-AMRO lettering down the side of the shirt is no more.JustinHorton wrote:Kotronias. (Though again, what's the team?)
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(Red) Devils go where angels fear to tread ,,,
A Manchester United shirt being worn at the Manchester rapidplay - at Manchester City's ground !!!
A Manchester United shirt being worn at the Manchester rapidplay - at Manchester City's ground !!!
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I certainly do not qualify as a top chess player, but I did ensure that I my photograph on the Officials page on the ECF website featured a glimpse of the appropriate shirt.
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John thats alright West Ham don't count as a football team anyway (tongue in cheek)
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Re: Top players in football shirts?
Why would chess players, when playing chess, wear clothing depicting some new-fangled sport? It is quite common for them to wear clothing depicting their team. Thus Lawrence Cooper and I both wore the same type of blazer in Beijing in 2008 as we were representing teamGB.
Did Loz not get hot wearing a lot of Arsenal shirts?
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Did Loz not get hot wearing a lot of Arsenal shirts?
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