Mack Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/irish-fans-welcome-england-poland-boos-taunts-020440039.html *****, as usual.
Guest MattP Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Drunk Irishmen in being racist towards the English shocker. Didn't even know about this. Sure the reaction would have been the same from the press had a couple of thousand England fans turned up for Ireland's arrival and sang a few rebel songs.
Guest Bilo Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Just me who thinks that's quite light-hearted and well-spirited then? Hardly like the locals turned up to lob bananas at Danny Welbeck is it?
Guest MattP Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Just me who thinks that's quite light-hearted and well-spirited then? Hardly like the locals turned up to lob bananas at Danny Welbeck is it? There is always an undercurrant of nastiness to it when the Irish get involved on us, I should know, my Mum is from Mayo and some of the stuff half her family comes out with sometimes makes me sick. It's actually quite flattering we are hated that much people take time out their day in a beautiful foreign country to wait to shout at a bus. Pathetic.
Mack Posted 8 June 2012 Author Posted 8 June 2012 Just me who thinks that's quite light-hearted and well-spirited then? Hardly like the locals turned up to lob bananas at Danny Welbeck is it? There is nothing well spirited in that. It's the usual small minded behaviour that us English are always the butt of. They weren't booing when we sent them a £7 billion bail out.......... I would'nt give them the smeg from my helmet.
purpleronnie Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Wow a few boos and a few songs about not beating the irish. How dare they. Boy the english are sensitive thesedays.
Guest Bilo Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Oh come on, it's banter. This coming from somebody who thinks that word seems to give people carte blanche to behave like complete *****. You don't think England fans would have done the same if the Germany coach pitched up in Krakow? I can guarantee they would have done, probably with one or two WWII related chants chucked in as well (let it go boys), so I don't see what the problem is. Even if there is ill intent in it, which doesn't look likely to me considering England fans are also there and it clearly never kicked off, who cares? I'm pretty sure we're mature and thick skinned enough as a nation to laugh it off. Most of us laughed at that Argentina advert in the Falklands where their hockey player was doing step-ups on a British war memorial, far more offensive than a few quick bursts of Fields of Athenry and You'll Never Beat the Irish. Non-story and a bit of fun.
Guest MattP Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Don't worry Bilo it's not something that I'm going to lose sleep on!! Just think had the English turned up to the Germans done a few WW2 ditties etc it would have been made more of. Shows a lot about the sort of support we have following us away now tbh, the Paddies would never have dared pull that off ten years ago.
Guest Bilo Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Don't worry Bilo it's not something that I'm going to lose sleep on!! Just think had the English turned up to the Germans done a few WW2 ditties etc it would have been made more of. Shows a lot about the sort of support we have following us away now tbh, the Paddies would never have dared pull that off ten years ago. I call that progress to be honest. A bit of light-hearted fun being taken as exactly that and no ugliness evident, maybe if it carries on like that English fans might be treated like our Scottish and Irish counterparts in Europe rather than dangerous zoo animals. A few WWII ditties would have attracted more attention and rightly so, because they're actually offensive and tired, childish attempts at 'banter' to boot.
Dan Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Lets take pride in being the most hated nation on earth - you've got to ask why everyone's so bitter towards us despite how shit we are.
Out Foxed Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 There is nothing well spirited in that. It's the usual small minded behaviour that us English are always the butt of. They weren't booing when we sent them a £7 billion bail out.......... I would'nt give them the smeg from my helmet. a section of our fans do the same boorish stuff. who cares. laugh at how sad/funny it is and move on.
Mack Posted 8 June 2012 Author Posted 8 June 2012 a section of our fans do the same boorish stuff. who cares. laugh at how sad/funny it is and move on. I didn't hear of and England fans going out of their way to scream abuse at the Irish national team...
Out Foxed Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 I didn't hear of and England fans going out of their way to scream abuse at the Irish national team... ....
Guest MattP Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 I call that progress to be honest. A bit of light-hearted fun being taken as exactly that and no ugliness evident, maybe if it carries on like that English fans might be treated like our Scottish and Irish counterparts in Europe rather than dangerous zoo animals. A few WWII ditties would have attracted more attention and rightly so, because they're actually offensive and tired, childish attempts at 'banter' to boot. Why is an Irish rebel song about a war "light hearted fun" but an English one "offensive, childish and tired"? Because we won our one?
Jaspa Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Lets take pride in being the most hated nation on earth - you've got to ask why everyone's so bitter towards us despite how shit we are. How are we the most hated nation on Earth ? USA ANYBODY ? People should stop being so weak to this sh** There was a time where we Englishmen owned their potato munching arses
Guest Bilo Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 Why is an Irish rebel song about a war "light hearted fun" but an English one "offensive, childish and tired"? Because we won our one? Fields of Athenry is a popular patriotic song, and yes it does have rebel roots. Would you not argue our very own Rule Britannia is about Britain (note, not England) ruling the world by force due to our Royal Navy? Just because England fans sing it now, doesn't mean we still want to nip over to Africa and nick their countries. It's just a patriotic song that's deeply embedded into the national psyche, much like Fields of Athenry with the Irish. I don't think they're seriously considering ways to assassinate John Terry and Roy Hodgson when they're singing it somehow.
Out Foxed Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 the comments from the plastic paddys underneath are worse.
LcFc_Smiv Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 **** me we can't take a bit of banter can we, do we sit there and cry when Forest and Derby and Cov give us shit, well some of you do, but mostly we give it back.They didn't take it too far it was just a bit of chanting, if they were launching bricks at the bus or making threats then yes I can see why we'd be upset.
AKCJ Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 'You're going down with the Euro'... That's quite a good one.
sphericalfox Posted 8 June 2012 Posted 8 June 2012 http://sports.yahoo....-020440039.html *****, as usual. Drunk Irishmen in being racist towards the English shocker. Didn't even know about this. Sure the reaction would have been the same from the press had a couple of thousand England fans turned up for Ireland's arrival and sang a few rebel songs. As an Irishman I found this amusing. Not one bit of the songs that were sung from a small group of what looked like 15 drunken lads was aggressive. It was all done in good humour. I'm glad to see that the response from hearing that is..the Irish what a bunch of w@nkers as usual. What surprises me is that there weren't enough English fans there to drown out them out in song. If you are taking this seriously enough to let your own prejudices come out then fair enough. Living in England and elsewhere I've come up against plenty of racism. This is not racism. It's playful banter and wind-up. If you can't distinguish between the two then fook off. 'You're going down with the Euro'... That's quite a good one. I found that reply amusing.
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