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    Kevin Harmse spent part of his professional soccer career with Tromsø IL, which holds the position as the northernmost top-level football club in the world.

    Fuck!

    http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Troms%C...image&resnum=1

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    Which day is it a fact of, when you post it at 3am?
    “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calvin View Post
    Kevin Harmse spent part of his professional soccer career with Tromsø IL, which holds the position as the northernmost top-level football club in the world.

    Fuck!

    http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Troms%C...image&resnum=1
    I'm familiar with Tromsø, I looked up information on the club when Stamatopoulos was loaned to us on August 3rd 2007. The team has lost once at home in the last 3 years or something because the pitch is frozen half the time. Maybe if TFC' s home record is like theirs, reporters will stop complaining and be satisfied (see today's news thread).

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    ....and I bet you they have a grass pitch!

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    What, no love for FC Malamuk? They play in the Coca Cola GM, Greenland's top (probably only) league. Their home city of Uummannaq is a full degree north of Tromsø. They are sponsored by Carlsberg, maybe we'll play them for the Carlsberg Cup.

    http://www.malamuk.gl/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eastend View Post
    ....and I bet you they have a grass pitch!
    I think they do actually, which actually probably makes the situation worse because the pitch probably plays like those rumble strips you see on the road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jaahuuu View Post
    What, no love for FC Malamuk? They play in the Coca Cola GM, Greenland's top (probably only) league. Their home city of Uummannaq is a full degree north of Tromsø. They are sponsored by Carlsberg, maybe we'll play them for the Carlsberg Cup.

    http://www.malamuk.gl/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eastend View Post
    ....and I bet you they have a grass pitch!
    beat me to it ---exactly my first thought too
    wow 2016 and things are looking up --- come on you reds lets go

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    According to wiki, their stadium is 2000 capacity, but the city only has 1500 population. Sounds like Hoffenheim Though it does say all league games are played in Nuuk (capital).
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk_Stadium

    Apparently the surface isn't grass, nor astroturf, but dirt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eastend View Post
    ....and I bet you they have a grass pitch!
    Actually, the pitch at Alfheim Stadion is field turf, though grass lines were artificially drawn on. Even with the effects of the Gulf Stream moderating the climate in Norway, Tromso is just too far north (69.5 degrees) to support a proper grass pitch.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfheim_stadion

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    Quote Originally Posted by werewolf88 View Post
    According to wiki, their stadium is 2000 capacity, but the city only has 1500 population. Sounds like Hoffenheim Though it does say all league games are played in Nuuk (capital).
    If all league games are played in Nuuk, then Tromso is the most northernmost top-level club in the world. Tromso is a good 5 degrees north of Nuuk.

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    Tfc Fun Fact Of The Day... The Referee From The Chicago Game Is From Illinois.. Yeaa Go Mls

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    here are some fun facts for ya:


    • China has more English speakers than the United States.
    • Dueling is legal in Paraguay so long as both parties are registered blood donors.
      (see Human Blood)
    • Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
    • If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
    • The average human eats eight bugs or spiders in their lifetime while sleeping.
    • The Pentagon in Arlington, VA, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of [COLOR=#009900 ! important][COLOR=#009900 ! important]Virginia[/COLOR][/COLOR]
      still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
    • The word racecar and kayak are the same whether read left to right or right to left. (also known as Palindromes)
    • Lyme Disease is named after Lyme Connecticut where it was first recognized in 1975, NOT the fruit.
    • The nickname Limey was applied to the English sailors who were routinely supplied with limes to prevent scurvy.
      (see Fruits and Vegetables and Vitamins)
    • The dot over the letter "i" is called a Tittle.
    • The [COLOR=#009900 ! important][COLOR=#009900 ! important]Dead [COLOR=#009900 ! important]Sea[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
      is the lowest point on Earth.
    NOTICE: Wager with STB: OVER 2 shots on goal in the First half wins a Pint at HT.

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    TFC Fun Fact:

    Mo Johnston has moved Serioux 5 times in his career:

    - Picked up Serioux while with Metrostars
    - Traded him from Metrostars to Houston
    - Picked him up in Entry Draft for Toronto
    - Traded him to Dallas for Ronnie O'Brien and a 2nd round pick
    - Traded for him from Dallas

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    Danny Dichio (Millwall 1) vs Carl Robsinson (Sheffield UTD 2) - 2004

    Both mentioned in the Article
    http://www.sufc.co.uk/page/MatchRepo...~23406,00.html

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    so it doesnt bother anyone that the MLS assigned a ref from illinois to referee a match between a team from illinois and a team from a different country

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    The 4th official for the match, Silviu Petrescu has refereed a number of our games in the past, and he lives in Waterloo.

    I guess in the MLS, it just 'happens'. Deal with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Technorgasm View Post
    here are some fun facts for ya:


    • China has more English speakers than the United States.
    • Dueling is legal in Paraguay so long as both parties are registered blood donors.
      (see Human Blood)
    • Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
    • If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
    • The average human eats eight bugs or spiders in their lifetime while sleeping.
    • The Pentagon in Arlington, VA, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of [COLOR=#009900 ! important][COLOR=#009900 ! important]Virginia[/color][/color]
      still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
    • The word racecar and kayak are the same whether read left to right or right to left. (also known as Palindromes)
    • Lyme Disease is named after Lyme Connecticut where it was first recognized in 1975, NOT the fruit.
    • The nickname Limey was applied to the English sailors who were routinely supplied with limes to prevent scurvy.
      (see Fruits and Vegetables and Vitamins)
    • The dot over the letter "i" is called a Tittle.
    • The [COLOR=#009900 ! important][COLOR=#009900 ! important]Dead [COLOR=#009900 ! important]Sea[/color][/color][/color]
      is the lowest point on Earth.

    Another fun fact.

    If eveybody in china linked arms around the equator.

    two thirds of them would drown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratven View Post
    The 4th official for the match, Silviu Petrescu has refereed a number of our games in the past, and he lives in Waterloo.

    I guess in the MLS, it just 'happens'. Deal with it.
    Yup. It happens all the time in professional sports league.

 

 

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