The English hooligan is the bane of all Englishmen the world over, including the diaspora living abroad, and it is typical you and your type should label us as holligans; but think about it. This is ENGLAND. The ENGLISH in England are the indiginous people. They are not foreigners who have come here for what ever reason. This is their country, the country of their ancestors, their mother country, the country that they love for no other reason than that it is their country. I am not defending racisim, whether it is the BNP variety or jokes makes against the Irish, which I do not tolerate. But all races are not of a equal footing in England. As the Irish feel that Ireland is of particular importance to the Irish then surely England is of particular importance to the English, whose country, after all, this is. This, I feel, is not asking too much. Livingstone, in my opinion, divides people of ethnic origin against the country that many of them were born in. If you dont owe loyalty to the country you were born in, then you owe it to some where else and Livingstone plays on that to his own electoral benifit. And yes, Ken's ok, in my opinion, you are smug. I'm sorry to say it but by distancing yourself from the rest of England, you are giving yourself a moral superioty over over Englishmen. As an Englishman, I feel embarrassed by the behaviour of some of our louts, but the majority of my fellow coutrymen that I have met feel the same. Are you saying that we are all louts? The satisfaction that you tell everyone that England alone has a problem with drunken hooigans rather suggests that you yourself have a racist attitude to the people in whose coutnry you were born in. This is smugness, pure and simple. You have a sanctimonous attitude that smacks of social superiority. I have met Englishmen and women, good people, who put local differeces aside and stand shoulder to shoulder with their fellow patriots. Maybe, just maybe, this is not the coutnry for you and that you should think of relocating elsewhere. As an Englishman, I feel that I have the right to stand up for MY people. If you have a problem with that, then nothing that I will say will change your mind? That is obvious.