Apparently, when Arafat was wheeled out of the French hospital, he was draped in the Palistinian flag. Sadly, the flag got caught in one of the trolley wheels - resulting in his legs being exposed and, to the horror of his wife, he seemed to be wearing a pair of football boots! I don't know how true this is, but I've heard that when she pulled up the Palistinian flag that was covering the rest of his body, Arafat was wearing the full England football uniform - complete with white shirt, blue shorts and socks.
Allegedly, when his wife asked who had dressed him like this, one of the doctors spoke up, claiming that it was his last request, and that the last words out of his dying body were...
"Bury me... in... Gazza strip..."
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