Tomorrow: When a nation unites in grief

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Originally Posted by TH63

You weren't alone mate.

I arrived early for that game, and stopped outside for one last smoke. I managed to see inside the concourse, eager to see what new and interesting ways my fellow supporters would find to destroy a scarf only to see people eagerly grabbing their new scarf and wearing it with pride. I nearly turned around and went home at that point.

Fast forward to the following season and a group of boys in the canton waving Blue scarves and flags only to have some middle aged feller near me flicking them the v's and yelling at them. I told him he should be ashamed of himself and was told to feck off by his WIFE!

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Funny thing is that I've always seen that night of the red scarves as the night when things began to change.

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Originally Posted by Watcliff

She and none of the other tax dodgers alive or dead have anything to do with Wales and never ever will. Welsh and European, fek the English.

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Except when it comes to playing in their league ?

'When a nation unites in grief'.

You certainly love OTT headlines over there.

I love the smell of fresh whoosh in the morning.

Yeah. I didnt read the post fully. You know what I mean though. Headlines in the media such as this do exist. I don't believe the people believe this shite.

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Originally Posted by Louth

Yeah. I didnt read the post fully. You know what I mean though. Headlines in the media such as this do exist. I don't believe the people believe this shite.

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Indeed. :thumbup:
Unfortunately think it's fairly clear that some do go along with that kind of thing - willingly.

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Originally Posted by life on mars

Pissed up, sad outcome ,no conspiracy

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He was certainly pissed I remember lot's of videos showing his every move.

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Originally Posted by BlueWales

This might sound strange but the time when I most felt as you described was the night they gave away all those ferking red scarves at the CCS. All the mugs wearing them and smiling. I had a right rant at some of them. Just like a remake of " Invasion of the Body Snatchers ". I felt alone in a crowd of thousands.

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I was a there too brother .

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Probably more than any other event in my life, the reaction to Diana's death had me thinking I was completely out of step with the thinking of the Great British public. Like virtually everyone else, I was really shocked when the news first broke of her death and completely understood the tone of the way it was covered on that Sunday, but when the news coverage and reaction from the public got more and more shrill and desperate as the days went on, it almost felt like the country was having a collective nervous breakdown. I was off on pre arranged annual leave for most of that week and it was only when I got back to work that I got the, reassuring, proof that there were other people around who shared my incredulity at what was happening.

The feeling that I'm "marching to a different drum" than what constitutes mainstream public opinion in Britain has become an increasingly common one over the past twenty years, but I've never felt it so strongly as I did in those days following Diana's death.

When her brother made that speech at her funeral, the instantaneous public reaction to it from outside Westminster Abbey still makes me think that it was as close as this country has come to a revolution overthrowing the establishment in my lifetime and the strangest thing is that I believe many of those who would have been there at the front leading it are the very same people who now turn up in their Union Jack clothing for things like Trooping the Colour and Royal birthday celebrations!

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I do think the people who line the streets with union jacks are a different breed . Not a great deal going on in their lives so they can take time out to get up to London and celebrate or commiserate some occasion happening in a family that are held on a pedestal because , well because they are . Agreed there was a feeling they were about to find a voice when Diana died .
I don't understand the need for a royal family myself but that's for another thread .