Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
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Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Sophie Wilmès is the first female Prime Minister of Belgium.
According to Wikipedia, she is married to an Australian called Chris Stone.
According to 3AW that is former Saint Chris Stone.
Mind officially blown.
According to Wikipedia, she is married to an Australian called Chris Stone.
According to 3AW that is former Saint Chris Stone.
Mind officially blown.
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
This doesn’t look like a reliable source but:
https://www.wirenewsfax.com/the-new-pri ... al-athlete
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
didnt he wear goggles when he played? Late 70s?
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Pretty sure he did.
I looked him up on LinkedIn. It’s the same guy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-stone-72806735
I looked him up on LinkedIn. It’s the same guy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-stone-72806735
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Now we've got a strong link to Belgium it's time to make it count.
Romelu Lukaku would make a fine CHF and our new Saints PM needs to make that clear to him.
Romelu Lukaku would make a fine CHF and our new Saints PM needs to make that clear to him.
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Verthongen and Alderweireld would be handy key defenders.roskilde wrote:Now we've got a strong link to Belgium it's time to make it count.
Romelu Lukaku would make a fine CHF and our new Saints PM needs to make that clear to him.
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
I remember the prescription goggles, he was the first and lsst to ever wear them
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Didn't help him much..
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Was a district cricketer too!
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Think he caused Mike Patterson to get the sack when he collided with another player.
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Time to go back to Red Yellow and Black?
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
I was in Belgium earlier this year and I thought it was very welcoming to put the vintage Saints flags up for my visit.
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Wow he has certainly kicked on!
The rest of Australia can wander mask-free, socialise, eat out, no curfews, no zoning, no police rings of steel, no illogical inconsistent rules.
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
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https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/ ... 1d5d928fef
"Before recent events in Belgium, Chris Stone was best known as the last footballer to regularly wear glasses, or goggles, in VFL games.
A 23-game player with St Kilda from 1978-81, Stone these days is a highly successful businessman who also happens to be married to Sophie Wilmes, Belgium’s first female Prime Minister as of October 27 this year.
Stone, 60, reflected on an interesting life this week after he returned to Belgium with his wife after attending the NATO conference in London.
Jon Anderson: Let’s go back 40 years and those goggles.
Chris Stone: In my first game against Collingwood in 1978 I came on late and my first kick was a right-foot goal. My second kick, on my left foot, was also a goal. So the next match I started in the 18 on a half-forward flank opposed to Alex Jesaulenko. Jezza kicked the ball as I was pushed in the back, the ball hitting me in my eye. I was taken to hospital and missed a fair bit of football.
JA: Hence the squash goggles?
CS: Not quite. Over the summer I was playing district cricket with St Kilda, fielding at silly point, when a batsman cut the ball straight into the same eye before the days of helmets. So off to the same hospital and same doctor. I came back with some modified squash goggles and was christened “Zorro” by Gary Colling.
JA: Maybe drawing a long bow, but the story goes in Round 2 of 1980 you and a teammate ran into each other, prompting president Lindsay Fox to sack St Kilda coach Mike Patterson.
CS: I don’t remember which of my teammates I crashed into, but I know it was at Moorabbin and I was tagging Hawthorn’s Peter “Felix” Russo. It was quite embarrassing. I was focusing so much on my role that I didn’t notice my teammate. The press got hold of it and within the week Mike Patterson had been sacked as coach with Alex Jesaulenko to take over.
JA: How do you go from there to being married to a PM?
CS: In 1982 I played with Newtown in Sydney under Sam Kekovich. I then went back to Caulfield Grammarians and played a few games for the Victorian rep side and got All-Australian. I then moved to Sydney with work and played at North Shore under Barry Breen before work took me to London for six years where the Earls Court Kangaroos won a couple of flags.
JA: You still hadn’t met the budding PM?
CS: No. I moved to Brussels in 1994 and formed the Brussels Saints after getting some kit from St Kilda. Sophie and I met 20 years ago in a bar in Brussels. These days it would have been Tinder, but back then it was a bar.
JA: What is it like being married to a head of state?
CS: Fairly mundane (laughter). We were at Buckingham Palace this week where we met the Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, Princess Anne and Donald Trump at cocktails. Quite surreal. Then we had dinner at 10 Downing St.
JA: Had you ever met a Prime Minister previously?
CS: Yes, I have met a few of them, but I haven’t slept with any other Prime Ministers (laughter).
JA: When will you bring the PM and your four children to Melbourne next?
CS: We are coming back to Melbourne in July. I will catch up with people like Bruce Eva, Jeff Joseph, Glen Casey, Mark Kellett, Michael Nettlefold, Rod Butterss and Ken Sheldon."
"Before recent events in Belgium, Chris Stone was best known as the last footballer to regularly wear glasses, or goggles, in VFL games.
A 23-game player with St Kilda from 1978-81, Stone these days is a highly successful businessman who also happens to be married to Sophie Wilmes, Belgium’s first female Prime Minister as of October 27 this year.
Stone, 60, reflected on an interesting life this week after he returned to Belgium with his wife after attending the NATO conference in London.
Jon Anderson: Let’s go back 40 years and those goggles.
Chris Stone: In my first game against Collingwood in 1978 I came on late and my first kick was a right-foot goal. My second kick, on my left foot, was also a goal. So the next match I started in the 18 on a half-forward flank opposed to Alex Jesaulenko. Jezza kicked the ball as I was pushed in the back, the ball hitting me in my eye. I was taken to hospital and missed a fair bit of football.
JA: Hence the squash goggles?
CS: Not quite. Over the summer I was playing district cricket with St Kilda, fielding at silly point, when a batsman cut the ball straight into the same eye before the days of helmets. So off to the same hospital and same doctor. I came back with some modified squash goggles and was christened “Zorro” by Gary Colling.
JA: Maybe drawing a long bow, but the story goes in Round 2 of 1980 you and a teammate ran into each other, prompting president Lindsay Fox to sack St Kilda coach Mike Patterson.
CS: I don’t remember which of my teammates I crashed into, but I know it was at Moorabbin and I was tagging Hawthorn’s Peter “Felix” Russo. It was quite embarrassing. I was focusing so much on my role that I didn’t notice my teammate. The press got hold of it and within the week Mike Patterson had been sacked as coach with Alex Jesaulenko to take over.
JA: How do you go from there to being married to a PM?
CS: In 1982 I played with Newtown in Sydney under Sam Kekovich. I then went back to Caulfield Grammarians and played a few games for the Victorian rep side and got All-Australian. I then moved to Sydney with work and played at North Shore under Barry Breen before work took me to London for six years where the Earls Court Kangaroos won a couple of flags.
JA: You still hadn’t met the budding PM?
CS: No. I moved to Brussels in 1994 and formed the Brussels Saints after getting some kit from St Kilda. Sophie and I met 20 years ago in a bar in Brussels. These days it would have been Tinder, but back then it was a bar.
JA: What is it like being married to a head of state?
CS: Fairly mundane (laughter). We were at Buckingham Palace this week where we met the Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, Princess Anne and Donald Trump at cocktails. Quite surreal. Then we had dinner at 10 Downing St.
JA: Had you ever met a Prime Minister previously?
CS: Yes, I have met a few of them, but I haven’t slept with any other Prime Ministers (laughter).
JA: When will you bring the PM and your four children to Melbourne next?
CS: We are coming back to Melbourne in July. I will catch up with people like Bruce Eva, Jeff Joseph, Glen Casey, Mark Kellett, Michael Nettlefold, Rod Butterss and Ken Sheldon."
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Who’s that with Chris Stone?
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Jon Anderson sourcing his stories from Saintsational.
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I reckon the club does too.
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I wrote this (Jon Anderson sourcing his story from Saintsational) in the comments section at the base of the article, the moderator did not clear my post/comment
Wasn't like I wrote anything offensive, guess they don' t like the truth at the HS.
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Sorry Goggles, one just let one rip and its awfully unpleasant at the rear end of ones carriage!
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
That is Chris trying to sign up some new members.
That is a pic of the queen telling a few eager listeners that Ratts and Hill will make all the difference for the Saints in 2020, and so they should all jump on board.
One report had him signing up Trumpy. But Donald has since declared it to be Fake News
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yep.Time to go back to Red Yellow and Black?
always the right time
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Chris who are these bunch of scrubbers you are introducing me to? Haven’t they been to a Swiss Finishing School to learn how to drink wine?
First - it’s not OK to be photographed with a glass of wine in your hand at formal occasions. Why do you think I carry a handbag with me all the time? It’s to slip my G & T into when I see the paparazzi circling with their cameras. If they have too many photos of you with wine glass in hand at functions, you’ll soon get all the magazines running stories that you’re a bit of a soak. So remember always carry a plastic lined handbag to slip the offending glass of booze into. Go to the loo for a slurp if you need to, out of the sight of prying cameras. Or at least I hope you will be.
Second - Really girls you know zilch about drinking white white. You hold the glass by the stem. Don’t put your sweaty palms around the bowl of the glass, you are warming the wine up. You are , meant to drink your whites cold, chilled, not at sweaty palm temp. Well done Angela, you are nearly there. You are holding the glass by its stem, but you haven’t completely rid yourself of the habit of wanting to clutch it with you other paw. Just focus Angela, you’ll get the hang of it.
Third - Always check what colour clothes your competition’s (ooophs, friends, heads of state etc) wearing.
Angela, did you and this lady (for want of a better word) with the over the top costume jewellery that I’m chatting to go to a fire sale & all they had left were clothes in the maudlin maroon you are wearing?
Come now girls don’t look like sheep, be bold in your colours. Or like my old mum used to do to make sure she stood out from the masses, wear something over the top, like a ridiculous feathery hat. You know behind Mum’s back, my consort Philip used to call her ‘Old Tits & Feathers. Also, don’t go to the same hairdresser you two, obviously Angela there wasn’t time enough for your hair to get blow dried and have product put into it. Old cheap costume jewellery outshone you there Angela, is that why you look like you’ve been sucking lemons?
Fourth - if you’ve been to the gym or for a dip in the pool, for goodness sake, dry your hair before you come to functions like this. I’m talking to you with the long straggly dyed black hair. And girlie I can see you are holding your wine glass incorrectly, even though you are trying to hide it from my sight.
Silly Boris Johnson, trying to Brexit us Poms from your countries with better weather than ours in the UK. I’m so concerned with what will happen to females in Europe without constant contact with us British women to educate you on class, style and how to act in public.
Now a word of advice girls, whilst I’m talking about sweaty palms. See the bloke behind Chris with the Boris hair style. Don’t shake hands with him, he’s got hot, pudgy, sweaty hands, and he holds the handshake just a little too long. Also he’s got the creepy habit of putting his hot sweaty palm on the small of your back to guide you along..... the chauvinist creep. I thought I’d got rid of pawing heads of state like that when that other lizard from Australia got chucked out ........ now what was his name? Buster Keaton I think.
Now come on girls hands off the bowl & onto the stem of the glass when drinking whites.
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Re: Prime Minister of Belgium married to a former Saint?
Sophie Wilmès (Belgium primer minister) second from right
Angela Merkel on the left.
But who is the old woman in the middle.
Could it be the Queen of Australia.
Angela Merkel on the left.
But who is the old woman in the middle.
Could it be the Queen of Australia.
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