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Argy-bargy as blood spilled during World Cup match


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Argy-bargy as blood spilled during World Cup match

 

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Violence erupted between a group of Thai and Chinese men during the Argentina vs Iceland World Cup match on Saturday.

 

CCTV showed the five men fighting at a restaurant near the Nawanghin intersection in Phanat Nikom, Chonburi.

 

A Chinese man was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital.

 

When Phanat Nikom police arrived they found broken bottles, smashed glasses and blood. The victim had already been taken to the local hospital.

 

Witness Phimprapha, 23, said all the men were gas fitters and had arrived together. Tempers flared as disagreements over the football mounted as the game continued at 1-1.

 

Three Chinese and two Thais started fighting, she said. They were all drunk. A Chinese man called "Leo" started it, said the witness.

 

Police are investigating.

 

Argy-bargy is a chiefly British term used to indicate a dispute. It became especially popular after the Falklands War of 1982 between Argentina and the UK.

 

Source: Sanook

 
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Argy-bargy was a late nineteenth-century modification of a Scots phrase, which appeared early in the same century in the form argle-bargle. The first part of this older version was a modification of argue. Who on earth connected this to the Falklands War? Great research and reporting....not!!

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On 6/18/2018 at 3:45 AM, Get Real said:

It says it all: Thai and Chinese figthing over a football match between Argentina and Iceland.

As usual: NO LOGIC!

There is if there were a side bet on it

 

But there again betting is illegal in Thailand so I doubt not... :whistling:

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On 6/18/2018 at 3:28 AM, webfact said:

Argy-bargy is a chiefly British term used to indicate a dispute. It became especially popular after the Falklands War of 1982 between Argentina and the UK.

A phrase that I was well accustomed too long before 1982

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Late 19th century (originally Scots): rhyming jingle based on argue

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/argy-bargy

Maybe because my Grandfather came from north of Hadrian wall 

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