Euro-Railway changes orange strip to avoid Dutch mixup (Reuters)
Published 6/20/2008 at Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Switzerland's national railway
has told its workers to stop using their normal orange
reflective vests after confused Dutch soccer fans started
following them on to the tracks.
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