InsecticonSlave wrote:Oh freaky, deaky dutchman...why do your sports team wear orange when those colours are not in your flag???
Because of two reasons:
The Flag of the Royal family (and direct relations, the Duchy of Luxemburg) Is Orange, white, Blue.
An Orange Pennant is attached to the top of the flag when the royal family is involved in the occasion for which the flag is raised.
The Orange-white-blue flag is actually older than our current red-white-blue flag. various reasons exist for the removal of the orange, but none are definite.
So, unless the house of Orange loses rule of the Netherlands, all our national representation will be in Orange.
giving us much more justification for it than say, Ireland or the Basks.