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ArkRoyal wrote: In any case, you would not catch me dead in that middle-class kak yellow they wear. South Africa wear green and gold because they are the colours of African nationalism (black). Why do we wear them?

Green and gold are the offcial national sporting colours are they not? Golden Watte...

bazza: they are rubbish; they could equally play in red white and blue. I will grant that the soccer team sometimes plays in a dark green/blue shirt which I like.

The cricketers only wear green because, in the past, the eastern staters argued over the shade of blue to wear in test matches -- even the South Australians had a blue cap well into the 1960s. I

Mate all our national teams wear green and gold dont they,

Rugby union and league, socceroos, matildas, kookas, and more.

yes, mate I know -- I watched the soccer game tonight; Bob Hawke made it official apparently, but Joe Darling started it around the trun of the twntieth century. I don''t mind the Rugby League strip, but as I say, that looks nothing like the Rugby Union version -- thank goodness.