Try the Beige Brigade

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Basically, a bunch of cricket-mad lads and ladettes who want to be vocal and visible supporting NZ. A few years ago, someone found one of the truely god-awful tan and chocolate brown ODI shirts from the original one-day World Series of the late 70s/early 80s, i.e. about the last time we had a decent team. Liking the immediately recognisable retro thing and the history behind it, they scraped up some more, and then started making look-alikes (Using the usual addidas with 2 stripes type dodges). Being loud, keen, odd, and instantly recognisable, they've grown into a sort of uniformed Barmy Army, and some of them will pop up at pretty much all international games.

Occasionally they "out-source" to other sports, especially anything against Australia. Hence their attendance at Fulham; I'm not sure if Milts emailled them or they emailled Milts, but basically they spread the word and gave out free Beige Brigade scarves, Milts and a few other Bloc5 (Footballing equivalent) lads did a hymn sheet for the uninitiated (i.e. most of them) and we made a hell of a racket.

Posted By: Iwan Husarmi on June 24th 2005 at 21:30:38

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