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May 2

mourinho's unbeaten home record (Q moved from Humanities desk)

is it a world/european record for a manager? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.189.217.151 (talk) 08:10, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Major and the Minor

There's a quote in the Ginger Roger's movie called "The Major and the Minor", and I've gone through, Wiki, IMDB, and TCM, and I can not find this quote I'm looking for. It's about "Strategy" and each time it's been said, it was to go in for a kiss. It'd go something like "and the Germans go to Belgium" and a boy kisses Ginger Rogers. What is this quote? I can't get it out of my head! Thanks. Moptopstyle1 ("I Feel Fine.") (talk) 08:40, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[1] meltBanana 13:26, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's in itty bitty letters, so here's Milland's explanation of how the Germans captured Sedan: "Now the flank of the German Army swung around the Netherlands and Belgium. Then a panzer division smacked right through here." [kiss] Clarityfiend (talk) 21:33, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, the link helped! WOOT WOOT! Moptopstyle1 ("I Feel Fine.") (talk) 04:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Monaco national football team

Why is Monaco's national football team not recognized by FIFA? The country itself is widely recognized as sovereign and the IOC seems to have no problem with them. What's FIFA's beef? —D. Monack ^talk 22:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is no correlation between sovereignty and recognition of a "national" team. FIFA recognizes the national team from Wales, for example, and Wales hasn't been a sovereign state for centuries, well before the invention of Football. With regard to the specific question, however, presumably FIFA has certain qualifications before a national team gains specific recognition, and Monaco apparently does not qualify, or has not been officially sanctioned by the appropriate governing body, presumably the FIFA Executive Committee or FIFA Congress. See also N.F.-Board and Non-FIFA football. --Jayron32 23:25, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Two reasons: (1) Monaco have never applied to join UEFA (despite the fact they are well qualified), and (2) if they were accepted they would be worse than Luxembourg: there are few if any good footballers that are eligible to play for Monaco. This is quite ironic as AS Monaco are one of the better teams in the French league (not surprisingly, they have no Monagesque players, although they did in the past), the UEFA Super Cup between the winners of the Champions League and Europa League is played in the Stade Louis II, and the Champions League draw is also held in the state. Xenon54 (talk) 23:45, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]