Just for the record, I have nothing against the team, I just hate the arrogant supporters telling other people from smaller devolved nations to “cry more” and “haters gonna hate” and other such nastiness. That post up there a few posts above mine for example.
Also, why are the FA doing nothing about the booing, abusing a 10 year old and using war references?. She wasn’t born 80 years ago, her grandfather most probably wasn’t even born when Anne Frank died (someone said in a picture caption “We haven’t forgotten your Grandpa killed Anne Frank, you Nazi b*tch”). Whoever cheered when her face was put on the big screen should be very ashamed of themselves, as well as the “take to Twitter” brigade. That picture of Leonardo Di Caprio with a camera, that they are making out is the cameraman focusing on the girl is pathetic. Lowest of the low.
No big football figure is saying anything about it, only Stan Collymore who asked his followers this….
The FA are an organisation that run and regulate the English game, but are doing nothing and give Prince William a job and seat next to Ed Sheeran, while he puts his son in a suit and tie for a football game. I bet the FA think “Let them get away with it, it’s the new patriotic!.”
No it’s not, singing “Ten German Bombers” during wartime was patriotic. School kids made it up and sang it during the war, but times have moved on and today it’s offensive for all the right reasons.
In Germany, an English girl celebrated the win and the locals there applauded her. In England it’s xenophobic behaviour and child abuse online towards someone who cried because the national team of her country lost.
I hate to think England is becoming a xenophobic country with Brexit encouraging it. At the last World Cup the England fans behaved brilliantly and I was even backing the team to win. This time round the toxic media, lack of protesting from the media and footballing figures let alone governing bodies to stop the booing etc, alongside the jingoism from fans and the media let alone the knee booing….. has simply tainted it for me. Even my English mum thinks it’s funny and “justified”. She hates Germans “for what they did to our RAF men during the war”. I am shocked and appalled, even dad agrees, but they did both agree with me on the bullying the 10 year old girl got. They think the booing during the anthem was funny and signing “Ten German Bombers” and “2 World Wars….”
I don’t care if they win the tournament, I don’t care if they go out. I enjoy these tournaments, but when Wales went out it took me a day to get over it, when Everton lost the cup final to Chelsea, it took me a week.
I don’t hate the England team, please let me put that out there. I support an English team as you know and would love to see them involved in a Euros winning team, especially Pickford who 100 percent is the reason they haven’t conceded yet. If it don’t happen, then so be it, it’s no disappointment like the cup final was, or not winning the league/not getting a CL place after our fantastic start to the season.
