All week I’ve been telling myself that it is a healthy thing that discriminatory chanting has come under the spotlight prior to Euro 2012. The world needs to focus on those who are unable to find an outlet for their testosterone without picking on the vulnerable.
We know all about discriminatory chanting in Scotland, you could say, we’re up to our knees in it, so I’ve been slightly uncomfortable at the tone to some of the reporting about Poland and Ukraine. It feels a bit like we’ve decided, ‘They have it too, let’s talk about them. Not us’. When I say “us”, I don’t mean you, of course.
Fair enough, I thought, let’s bring this issue out, but at the start of the second half between Netherlands and Denmark when BBC commentator Jonathan Pearce reported “We haven’t heard any racist comments here today. Not when the young, black, Dutch left back got the ball, or at any other time” I figured this is more about xenophobia than racism. Xenophobia about Eastern Europe.
We’re no wiser about how to deal with our testosterone-fuelled under-achievers with a purpose to find than anyone else. In fact, we’re worse for allowing our intellectuals to indulge in the last refuge of the scoundrel.
My money is on the Polish and Ukrainian fans emerging from this tournament with a better reputation than some of their Western European counterparts.
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The Spirit of Athur Lee 22.21
Thank you for link to Brazil v argentina
What can you say about messi except he would get pelters of his own if he played for huns and probably a criminal record for blessing himself off a Scottish court.
a wonderful wonderful player
Hate Dr Who. Hate Daleks. Night all. HaiL HaiL
hamiltontim – Jeez, Paul Weller looks about 12 in that video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt4nluvu3B8 (thumbsup)
jude2005 – Hate Daleks
Racist. (thumbsup)
lars9707
jude2005 if u have watched the game u would have seen boys of the old brigade
Can you please send us pictures of these old people
Thanks
lars9709:
Song debates are almost as tedious as the anti-republican singing types who always start them.
philvis
Now that’s young!
I think Debbie was the first woman I ever really had a crush on and then I discovered….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBMHnJqAvM
upps
true colours come out there..
there is a language rule on here lars9707… tut tut..
so we are not allowed to sign about the bhoys whom the queen honoured last year…
good night..
Morning bhoys, warm and hun free as ever.
Just read the last page, agitators on board I see, whatever floats your boat I suppose.
Couple of good games today, swithering whether to go out to watch them or not, Spain nor Ireland will lose,
Had the Dutch to win today, funny old game, the Germans were the Germans, slow starters, the Danes looked efficiant.
sing…even hooooops…
THE Battle has been lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive been forced indoors its got to the stage where its unbearable…..driving me crazy..i know i can never defeat them and they know likewise…..its starts mid-afternoon and they never let up….they know im weak so please god give me strength……….its scratch scratch claw claw every damn nite…………………………………….ive had enough so i thought lets check out a a machine for killing midges……..apparently its only the female which does the biting……….yes they reckon these machines can give you midge free garden in no time ….ie if you prepared to spend upwards of £12 hundred pounds………………..forget says i im going to try the tights over my head…..havent much chance of getting a pair of emday….guess ill need to cough up and buy a pair
blantyretim why do u want to sing about songs that would give us bad publicity in that country and with our press instead of getting behind our team with football songs that we have quite a few to sing yet we still have a go at the huns for singing theirs.lets follow our team and not let ourselves be tarnished with the reputation of the huns.listen to the crowd after 32 mins in the following clip do we really need this???????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaLbMh9ger8&feature=related
I remember having this on vinyl…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Gh-GH8Miw&feature=related
late night look in…..soup…fine.
……new romantics…well…fine.
……daleks……fine.
…… songs debate…!
I think I smell one.
Night all.HH
Nytol
Take care and god bless
The site is not for me tonight.
HH
KTF
the spirit of arhtur lee see the clip i posted on last post at 32 mins.
West Wales Celt
if u think the debate is tedious why are we always compared with the huns and on the radio evry week it is always said “they are as bad as each other”.now do u want us tagged as the same as them ???????????????????????/
Good night all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv4Wpychxh8
HAIL HAIL
lars
Simple yes or no answer please mate.
Do YOU equate The Boys of the Old Brigade with The Famine Song?
lars9707 on 9 June, 2012 at 23:41 said:
Does yer mammy know yer out?
lars9707
The game was the 22nd May and that is all you can offer
What about the Orange March that went by my hoose today?
Last one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GiCtvne1l8
Till tomorrow HAIL HAIL
There are many stories…….
Huns on the run.
hamiltontim no that song just tells u how low the huns can go as well as other songs they sing but our press and the papers in england dont see it that way and we will continue to be labelled as bad as them for our songs that we dont need to sing.the huns haven’t any football songs to sing WE HAVE that is the difference lets not allow ourselves to sink to the depths they do and let us rise above them .
Shameless Campbell Ogilvie,
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/325631/SFA-boss-Ogilvie-in-EBT-pledge
|Sixteen roads to Golgotha not trying to lower myself as u have but do u have a mother.
The Spirit of Arthur Lee orange marches should be banned full stop.i myself detest everything about the wrotten organisation they claim to follow.
lars
I’ve learned as I’ve older, the moral high ground ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
lars9707 on 9 June, 2012 at 23:49 said:
Dead on,happy days.You have made your point,don’t labour it.Because when you keep labouring your point,it then seems like you have an agenda,which has got nothing whatsoever to do with the point that you keep labouring.
I don’t like cricket – i love it.
Just finished watching Argentina v Brazil game. Made the Euro stuff so far look turgid. This was fast, furious and physical. 7 goals, a Messi hatrick, including a truly unbelievable 3rd, and a couple of red cards to round it all off.
And if I was an footballer thinking about a GB Olympic team appearance, particularly an aging has been, I would think twice before being totally outplayed and embarrassed by either of these sides!
“Oh, father why are you so sad”
lars9707 on 9 June, 2012 at 23:53 said:
What’s that got to do with anything?
hamiltontim do u want our fans and our club compared to those south of the river.i don’t their sick chants abroad in isreal and other countries show how bad they are but when we sing our republican songs we get bad press well above them.
The Pogues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Yp8vecWXM
It’s always the speeeeelin’……………….
lars with a silent “l”.
Messi is the best of all time for me,argument is he has not won the World Cup a la Maradona and Pele,can’t blame him for his team mates.Messi is why you love football.
all i am saying is lets rise above them sing our football songs and show the world who has the best fans in the world.c’mon the hoops
lars9707 on 9 June, 2012 at 23:49 said:
hamiltontim no that song just tells u how low the huns can go as well as other songs they sing but our press and the papers in england dont see it that way and we will continue to be labelled as bad as them for our songs that we dont need to sing.the huns haven’t any football songs to sing WE HAVE that is the difference lets not allow ourselves to sink to the depths they do and let us rise above them .
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The minute you start caring about that which is put in print by the likes of Traynor, Leckie (**cough**), Keevins or those currently the focus of a (very) Public Inquiry is probably the same minute you need to re-evaluate your life and your own focus: do you care for the attentions of the unscrupulous or can you rise above their ignorance and live your life as untainted by their hopeful pastiche of a long gone era?
lars9707
Not having a go, genuine question. Do you usually post under a different name?
Your reference to the Boys of the Old Brigade is easily qualified.
It’s offensive to those who don’t understand it. It’s that lack of understanding that needs confronted, not the song.