What do you mean, that's not your flag? Who's flag is it???

[MrCoffee]

Whoopsie-daisy

N. Korea women protest over flag

North Korea's women's football team refused to start their match with Colombia on Wednesday night due to a dispute over the wrong flag being displayed.

The South Korea flag was shown alongside players' names on screens at Hampden Park instead of the North Korea equivalent when a video package was being shown ahead of kick-off.

The Koreans headed back into their dressing room in digust but were eventually persuaded to take the field and the game kicked off an hour and five minutes after it was meant to.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1127258/locog-apologise-over-north-korea-flag-gaffe?cc=5901

[ohiosmith]

1. Nice post Yankee dog!

[MrCoffee]

2. Kim Jong Un is not amused

[Dr. Strange]

3. They headed back to their dressing room in digust?

This is why soccer doesn't catch on: weird terminology. What the hell is a digust?

I bet you won't catch hockey players getting dressed in a digust.

[MrCoffee]

4. I blame the incompetent hacks at ESPN

That place went downhill after Killer left to do the Daily Show, which was way better when he hosted it.

[ohiosmith]

5. Personally, I'd rather see a female soccer player in a digust than a male hockey player in a

garter belt. But then, I'm weird that way!

[CBGLuthier]

6. Do Koreans go to the Olympics just to Pout?

[petronius]

7. I'll bet there were some lengthy phone calls back to Seoul before they agreed to play

And I bet things would have gone very badly for them if they'd just shrugged it off.


(And I know it's Pyongyang; that was my sad idea of a joke. )

[Bucky]

15. What's sad is that joke flew right past me.

What's sadder is that I'm a geography teacher.

[petronius]

17. Me too, actually - and I triple-checked to make sure I wasn't mixing up the cities!

But as I always tell people, Geography is so much more about the whats, whys, processes, and relationships - we simply don't have time to memorize every scrap of 'where' trivia. (That's what I say when I miss the blue pie question in Trivial Pursuit, anyway...)

[treestar]

8. Why wasn't the right flag there?

I mean it was the NK team, so they should have people working there who are competent, the Olympic games are all about country identification of teams, so why the hell did someone put the SK flag up when the NK team was the team playing?

No fan of NK but they are a country and we'd be pissed if our team was greeted by, I don't know, a British flag.

[loli phabay]

11. it wasnt the flag but the image of the flag on the big screen, kinda funny in a way given all the

mess ups that are happening with the SFA who are housed in hampden.

[treestar]

12. Guess the Olympics are not being run by someone competent like Mittens

[Bucky]

16. A better analogy would be a Vietnamese flag.

After all, North Korea invaded South Korea and tried to conquer them. They're touchy about the whole thing cause they got their butts kicked.

[bluedigger]

9. I would have been pissed too if I were one of them.

What a gaffe!

[Doc_Technical]

10. Reminds me of this incident:

http://www.bluejayhunter.com/2012/06/flashback-friday-upside-down-canadian.html

[geardaddy]

20. I totally remember that!

What a disgrace.

[4th law of robotics]

13. When they get home they will no doubt be penalized for such a display

to allow their names to be pictured next to the false-flag of a pretend nation (there is only one Korea!).

This is high treason.

[Bertha Venation]

14. I'd be pissed.

I don't blame them.

[linux80386]

18. +100. Me too.

Especially considering the circumstances.

[tjwmason]

19. Of all the countries to get confused

Have to say I'm with the players here.