What link is there between the English soccer club Nottingham Forest, an Italian patriot born in France and, indirectly, the slaughterhouses of Argentine?

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Red shirts Nottingham Forest were founded in 1865 by a group of shinty players[2] shortly after their neighbours Notts County, (thought to be the world's oldest surviving professional football club), in 1862. The club's committee decided that Forest's colours should be Garibaldi Red, named after the Italian patriot who headed the redshirts party. They joined the Football Alliance in 1888, and won the competition in 1892. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nottingham-Forest-F.C. Garibaldi was born on July 4, 1807 in the city of Nice ("Nizza" in Italian), at that time the capital of the French department of Alpes-Maritimes, before it was given back to the House of Savoy, the rulers of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in 1814 with Napoleon's defeat. Though there is no contemporary mention of them, popular history asserts that it was in Uruguay that the legion first wore the red shirts, said to have been obtained from a factory in Montevideo which had intended to export them to the slaughterhouses of Argentina. It was to become the symbol of Garibaldi and his followers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi Feb 09 09, 12:48 AM