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Thread #22411   Message #244361
Posted By: Brendy
19-Jun-00 - 08:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Football without tears
Subject: RE: BS: Football without tears
Headline of 'The People' on Sunday:

HUN NIL

Football isn't a game to the English, it's a war, and the English media, and many of it's fans treat it as such. Who else but the English would think of playing 'The Dambusters' incessantly, intermingled with 6 or 7 run throughs of 'God Save The Queen'.
It was an interesting development that many of the English 'fans' deported from Belgium never had any prior history as 'hooligans'.
Does this mean that all English fans are now regarded as potential hooligans? Has the 'profile' changed?
I have been waiting years for FIFA, or UEFA to come up with this suggestion.
Had it not been for the huge sponsorship of the likes of MacDonalds, Pepsi, Sony, who, I'm sure, don't want their brand names associated with violence, this move would have been longer in coming.

The English have to change their attitude to sporting events, from the media to the man on the street. And they have to stop believing they are so damned superior in everything that they do.

B.