Has she got a point - should we be supporting England?

[Punxsutawney Phil]

Whilst some of the players actions of late are to be admired, suggesting we should support a team other than our own is a little odd and as we were competing in the competition ourselves it's disrespectful. Does anyone shift their support to another team in the FA Cup when we have our usual half arsed 3rd round effort? If we drop out of contention for the playoffs do we start cheering for one of the teams in the running because some of their players are great ambassadors for the Championship? I very much doubt it.

I'm happy that some the players are taking some social responsibility and the changes the are seeking to make may just make your average England fan more bearable than some of the idiots that have been most prevalent in the past, however cheering when a national team other than Wales score/win? Odd....

I've just changed my mind, come on Denmark....
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[The Bloop]

My team isnt playing so I'm a neutral(ish). England have some decent players I cannot bring myself to support them and dont see why I should.
I wouldn't call myself anti-English but will certainly take more pleasure in a Danish victory tonight, or an Italian victory at the weekend, rather than an English win in either.

[jimmyscoular]

My attitude to this was shaped in 1970 when I was 13 years old. I loved the English team and was miserable when they were eliminated by West Germany. In people like Nobby Stiles and Alan Ball and the Charlton brothers I recognized “my people.” That they technically were English, and had funny accents, meant nothing. I loved everything about them, even that year’s World Cup song, “Back Home.” I still feel this way. If the English are not exactly “my people,” well they’re pretty darn close — in fact, could literally not be closer. I loved Alf Garnett, The Likely Lads, Eric and Ernie, Steptoe and Son, Reg Varney, Benny Hill and Esther Rantzen, all of whom were English. I have no desire to go the Serbia-Bosnia or Turkey-Greece route. Peace brothers. I’ll be watching and waiting and cheering every move.

[jimmyscoular]

Denmark has porn, beer and bacon

its no ****ing contest who gets my support

Not sure these things are lacking anywhere outside the Islamic world.

[splott parker]

My attitude to this was shaped in 1970 when I was 13 years old. I loved the English team and was miserable when they were eliminated by West Germany. In people like Nobby Stiles and Alan Ball and the Charlton brothers I recognized “my people.” That they technically were English, and had funny accents, meant nothing. I loved everything about them, even that year’s World Cup song, “Back Home.” I still feel this way. If the English are not exactly “my people,” well they’re pretty darn close — in fact, could literally not be closer. I loved Alf Garnett, The Likely Lads, Eric and Ernie, Steptoe and Son, Reg Varney, Benny Hill and Esther Rantzen, all of whom were English. I have no desire to go the Serbia-Bosnia or Turkey-Greece route. Peace brothers. I’ll be watching and waiting and cheering every move.

I’m quite fond of Hans Christian Anderson myself.

[connersccfc]

I wouldn't support them in the same way i wouldn't support Swansea or Bristol.

but my complaint is why are they so concerned? does any other national team beg its neighbors to support them like this? do any others get the "well we'd support you" treatment? seems so bizarre and makes me want to support them even less.

[the other bob wilson]

My attitude to this was shaped in 1970 when I was 13 years old. I loved the English team and was miserable when they were eliminated by West Germany. In people like Nobby Stiles and Alan Ball and the Charlton brothers I recognized “my people.” That they technically were English, and had funny accents, meant nothing. I loved everything about them, even that year’s World Cup song, “Back Home.” I still feel this way. If the English are not exactly “my people,” well they’re pretty darn close — in fact, could literally not be closer. I loved Alf Garnett, The Likely Lads, Eric and Ernie, Steptoe and Son, Reg Varney, Benny Hill and Esther Rantzen, all of whom were English. I have no desire to go the Serbia-Bosnia or Turkey-Greece route. Peace brothers. I’ll be watching and waiting and cheering every move.

I can't be sure, but I would be pretty surprised if your namesake ever felt the same way!

[splott parker]

I can't be sure, but I would be pretty surprised if your namesake ever felt the same way!

Jesus, could you imagine Scoular’s take on an English love in !!!!

[light up the darkness]

I’m quite fond of Hans Christian Anderson myself.

Did he get on in extra time ?

[jimmyscoular]

I can't be sure, but I would be pretty surprised if your namesake ever felt the same way!

Would be terribly ungrateful for a man who spent his entire professional career in England playing for Portsmouth, Newcastle and dear old Bradford Park Avenue to express the sort of hatred towards his paying fans that I see on this board.

[splott parker]

Did he get on in extra time ?

He did but he was pretty Grimm.

[splott parker]

Would be terribly ungrateful for a man who spent his entire professional career in England playing for Portsmouth, Newcastle and dear old Bradford Park Avenue to express the sort of hatred towards his paying fans that I see on this board.

Not met many exiled Jocks then

[willo1927]

Can't support them.
The endless media hype and biased commentary
Their awful fans who boo every national anthem and shine lasers into opposition eyes.
I can understand them booing our anthem or the Scots as that's local rivalry but the Danish one???
Just shoes what a horrible lot they really are

[Llandaff Blue]

Can't support them.
The endless media hype and biased commentary
Their awful fans who boo every national anthem and shine lasers into opposition eyes.
I can understand them booing our anthem or the Scots as that's local rivalry but the Danish one???
Just shoes what a horrible lot they really are

Come off it, I've heard opponents anthems booed at Wales games. This pearl clutching is ridiculous, the Danes did it when they played Finland, Italy did it when they played Spain. Hell, I've been at Cardiff games where fans jeer a player who's gone down injured, get off your high horse and stop generalising

[willo1927]

Come off it, I've heard opponents anthems booed at Wales games. This pearl clutching is ridiculous, the Danes did it when they played Finland, Italy did it when they played Spain. Hell, I've been at Cardiff games where fans jeer a player who's gone down injured, get off your high horse and stop generalising

The ones you have mentioned are local rivals like I said.
I can't remember the last time I heard Wales fans booing an anthem apart from England.
You look back and tell me when they did?

[willo1927]

Come off it, I've heard opponents anthems booed at Wales games. This pearl clutching is ridiculous, the Danes did it when they played Finland, Italy did it when they played Spain. Hell, I've been at Cardiff games where fans jeer a player who's gone down injured, get off your high horse and stop generalising

Thought you was talking sh#t
Just looked back at the Denmark v Finland game and there was no booing the finish anthem and neither did the Italians against Spain.
They are there for you to check.
Then watch the English fans against the Danes and then tell me they didn't boo.