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[old.user4556]

Holy fuck, what a predictable bunch of wankers.

Working, living and being half Scottish; I semi jokingly said at work today: "it won't be long until the fuckwitted 'axe to grind' Scots come out with something like 'Carlsberg don't disallow goals...' ".

Well, i'm so glad some utter tard landed straight into my prediction. I find it sad, and tbh i'm utterly humilated to have anything to do with the country I live in.

You should have read the Scottish Sun all week - it's a shit newspaper at the best of times, but the story on "Scotland flew out a special piece of scottish turf to the Croatian team today to bring them luck against the Auld enemy" took the biscuit on "HELLO WE'RE ALL FUCKWITS AT THIS NEWSPAPER" status.

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[Dillinja]

Do the people of Scotland really have nothing better to do than mock the English?

Obviously not.

 

[Mofo8]

Get a bloody grip you lot. Where's the famous stiff upper lip? That's the problem many English people seem to have for these sporting events. You set yourselves up for a big fall, with the national (i.e. not just English) TV and Press media dribbling on and on about how England could go all the way. Admit it.... if the outcome had been the reverse, you'd be dancing in the streets.... you wouldn't be saying that you robbed Portugal.

Stop treating international sporting events as if they're the Battle of Trafalgar, Waterloo and the whole of the bloody Second World War rolled into one, and people might stop laughing when you get put out.

 

[mank!]

Get a bloody grip you lot. Where's the famous stiff upper lip? That's the problem many English people seem to have for these sporting events. You set yourselves up for a big fall, with the national (i.e. not just English) TV and Press media dribbling on and on about how England could go all the way. Admit it.... if the outcome had been the reverse, you'd be dancing in the streets.... you wouldn't be saying that you robbed Portugal.

Err, yeah. That would be called celebrating. If the Scots had qualified for Euro 2004 (which I hoped they would) then the same people taking the piss out of England now would have been dancing in the streets.

I just find it all rather sad and pointless.

 

[Gurnox]

You should have read the Scottish Sun all week - it's a shit newspaper at the best of times, but the story on "Scotland flew out a special piece of scottish turf to the Croatian team today to bring them luck against the Auld enemy" took the biscuit on "HELLO WE'RE ALL FUCKWITS AT THIS NEWSPAPER" status.

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Sad. And that is all you can say about it really. Not sad as in insulting, sad as in sad......

 

[GekuL]

Robbed (hihi) from another forum.

 

[Clown]

What's the point? It wasn't funny.

 

[Dillinja]

Robbed (hihi) from another forum.

 

[old.user4556]

Stop treating international sporting events as if they're the Battle of Trafalgar, Waterloo and the whole of the bloody Second World War rolled into one, and people might stop laughing when you get put out.

When Scotland played Holland and lost 5-1 (was hoping Scotland would give them a run for their money) it was equally the end of the world for some Scotland supporters.

 

[Mofo8]

When Scotland played Holland and lost 5-1 (was hoping Scotland would give them a run for their money) it was equally the end of the world for some Scotland supporters.

Was it fuck!!!! We're used to getting a kicking and don't take it personally as a nation when it happens. We're happy just to party on in silly outfits!

 

[old.user4556]

It was indeed, you just won't admit it. The reason some probably don't give a fuck is because Scotland's football team are so diabolical that they don't qualify for tournaments anymore.

So what do they do instead? Support whoever is opposing England - there we go, back to the original problem! Every tournament they grind the big "let's support the opposing team to England" axe.

 

[Paradroid]

You should have read the Scottish Sun all week - it's a shit newspaper at the best of times, but the story on "Scotland flew out a special piece of scottish turf to the Croatian team today to bring them luck against the Auld enemy" took the biscuit on "HELLO WE'RE ALL FUCKWITS AT THIS NEWSPAPER" status.

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LoL

The Sun? No wonder! It's aimed at IQ<90.

(...all week?)




/Rant

There is a healthy competition between the English and Scots, that does go back to our days of war with each other, indeed, the Auld Enemy, is quite apt really. Most Scots know that their history contains foreign (English) invaders that have imposed their rule upon their nation, and, I think the competative streak is a healthy sign that the Scots still have a sense of their own sovereignty left. It's a pity this mainly manifests itself in the footballing arena and not the ballot booths tbh. Essentially, the English stuck-it-to the Scots in battle & politics years ago, and, the Scots are happy to see England get their come-upance (in whatever guise). It is quite entertaining. Like watching the school bully get his arse kicked. And also, the Scots are the little-guy. England has 10 times the population, 10 times the pool-of-talent to pick from. But at the end of the day it boils down to 11 men... (heh)

Rant/


Yeah! Go football ! (or something)

 

[old.user4556]

Exactly, but the Sun is oh-so popular; portraying, hyping and stirring the whole subject.

In the end, England are out; so the <insert opposing team> shirts can go away for another two years until the world cup.

Conversely, I appreciate the frustrations of non England fans - it took (and i timed it...) John Motson 1 minute and 44 seconds of the first half of the England v Portugal game to mention '1966' - that really has to stop, even as an England supporter it made me rolleyes and say "give it a rest, this is what winds people up".

See you in two years .

 

[Shovel]

John Motson is an oaf though. The wonderful thing with this new BBCi Digital TV malarky is being able to choose the FiveLive comentry instead which while no less biased (if not more), is an awful lot more entertaining (this being a world where we accept that you have to have some comentry to identify what's going on.. I tried having the "No commentry" option once and it just didn't work...).

 

[Tom]

Personally I find Alan Green more annoying than Motson. Its only a game. The better team won, live with it.

 

[mank!]

Personally I find Alan Green more annoying than Motson. Its only a game. The better team won, live with it.

Alan Green is an utter fucking moron.

 

[Melachi]

Bit of a shameless bump, but it is on the first page P

Anyway, have to say a few things about that match, and I will admit, I'll be a bit bias (im half irish half portuguese), since my portuguese side was saying (what a game and we won!) and my Irish side is saying (Who cares who won, England lost didnt they? )

Ok first of, I have to say that I do believe that Portugal was the better side in the match by far, the first goal was a stupid mistake, one of the many pass-back intercepted goals in the tornament (hello, england-v-france).

Cole was friggin brilliant, but didnt even compare to, CARVAHLAHO!
Carvahlaho for me, was the single best defender in the whole tournament, (except for the disallowed goal, he was sleeping then )
Ronaldo was good

When Costa came on, I taught it was over, he has a history of playing defensively, and portugal didnt need it and so I tought we lost it when he came, then ofcourse he went and proved me wrong scoring a cracker with (scholes? forget now) hanging off his back while he did it.

The loss of Rooney definetly did something to the England team.

Ok, now the disallowed goal , Terry had his hand on Ricardo's shoulder, and even though it didnt look like Ricardo was even trying to jump, I heard all this talk about Refs being told to look after the refs, anyway, I do have to admit im 65% leaning towards the fact that it was a goal. Though I dont put much tought into as my team won, and before you go and say anything, yeah sure id be real annoyed if the tables were turned.

The penaltys, gah not going into the whole spot being in a mess talk but I hear people talking about how cheaky it was of Ricardo to take the penalty. Did anyone see Postigas peanlty?! Hahahaha cheakiest penalty ever! And to top it off, the look on Deco's face when he scored it.

Anyway, imo the best game of the tournament, dont think Ref was that bad, though im prolly underplaying his mistakes, but I bet you lot are exagerating em too.

 

[Dillinja]

Old news. I don't think I can even remember that far back.