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Fratton Fred wrote: »
I like to think I am gracious when it comes to football........
...after you have a few snide digs first of course.
But don't worry to much Fred, it's only a bit of craic at the end of the day. 0 -
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Fratton Fred wrote: »Good for you.
Which country won the "World series" this year?
Well it is international
Canada have a team in TorontoDo those sports even have international teams?
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I'm actually the other way around - I cheer for England because I like to see ignorance take one in the eye.
The English media are nowhere near as arrogant as they used to be, every half-decent pundit said England would be gone before the semi-finals, and none -f them thought for a second that they'd win.
I always suspect peopel who automatically cheer against England to be still smarting from 800 years of ****e, but don't have the balls to come out ad say it.
Yes, they've toned down the arrogance...on the BBC. But I listen to and read a wide range of stuff coming out of England. And the same old arrogance and sense of entitlement is there. Had they won tonight the BBC wouldn't have been able to resist.
Did you hear the 'beaten by a West Ham reject' comment by the BBC commentator?:D Brilliant! At times he and Mark Lawenson sounded like a sketch from Apres Match.
It has nothing to do with 800 years of anything, just my lifetime listening to their illfounded yearning. I'm the same with Germany, America or anyone else displaying unwarranted arrogance. Like Europe winning Ryder Cups when golfers arrive on tee in army fatigues. That kinda '****e', you should try it.....very satisfying.;)0 -
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Don't read it then?
No reason to read it unless you support an English team.
But I enjoy it, have you not been reading a word I've written? :rolleyes:
It's fun, it's like somebody who reads romantic novels, you know the outcome and that heart break is inevitable,
Maybe you should follow a sport where everybody draws?
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Happyman42 wrote: »But I enjoy it, have you not been reading a word I've written? :rolleyes:
It's fun, it's like somebody who reads romantic novels, you know the outcome and that heart break is inevitable,
Maybe you should follow a sport where everybody draws?
Or maybe you're a mongo that devours the English sports media, inhabits a fantasy world where you think you are a 'manc' or 'scouser' but still gloat endlessly about England losing.0 -
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Happyman42 wrote: »But I enjoy it, have you not been reading a word I've written? :rolleyes:
It's fun, it's like somebody who reads romantic novels, you know the outcome and that heart break is inevitable,
Maybe you should follow a sport where everybody draws?
why are you so happy they lost? do you feel the same about any other country?0 -
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Happyman42 wrote: »Yes, they've toned down the arrogance...on the BBC. But I listen to and read a wide range of stuff coming out of England. And the same old arrogance and sense of entitlement is there. Had they won tonight the BBC wouldn't have been able to resist.
Did you hear the 'beaten by a West Ham reject' comment by the BBC commentator?:D Brilliant! At times he and Mark Lawenson sounded like a sketch from Apres Match.
It has nothing to do with 800 years of anything, just my lifetime listening to their illfounded yearning. I'm the same with Germany, America or anyone else displaying unwarranted arrogance. Like Europe winning Ryder Cups when golfers arrive on tee in army fatigues. That kinda '****e', you should try it.....very satisfying.;)
Not havgin British TV, no - sorry. But I can andd do read online stuff and the consensus was that England were never goign to win.
I never accused YOU specifically of the 800 years thing, but there is something deeper in this anti-ENglish thing that is beign covered up. No one complains when Ryle Nudgent goes overboard abotu "the greatest sporting acheienvement since Delany in 56" (Leinser winning the Heineken Cup, apparently).
Hate golf, can't comment, but if this is your attitude, who the hell is left to support...??Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.
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Not havgin British TV, no - sorry. But I can andd do read online stuff and the consensus was that England were never goign to win.
I never accused YOU specifically of the 800 years thing, but there is something deeper in this anti-ENglish thing that is beign covered up. No one complains when Ryle Nudgent goes overboard abotu "the greatest sporting acheienvement since Delany in 56" (Leinser winning the Heineken Cup, apparently).
Hate golf, can't comment, but if this is your attitude, who the hell is left to support...??
There are those in Ireland so politically correctly up themselves they can't enjoy anything competitive between the two islands lest they be called rabid IRA dogs. It's a game of footie, ffs
I reckon if you took a vox pop of sentiment in England before Germany played somebody like Sweden then you would find some fairly deep grained predjiduces?
I wouldn't worry too much about it, it's all just good old fashioned tribal rivally. Our oh so PC brigade don't do tribal stuff...so gauche!0
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