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If our lads sang the national anthem as passionately as the Italian players sing theirs, it would likely be seen as a microaggression by some odd folk in this country.
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I've had a bad run betting. So I've bet on Denmark to qualify. So hopefully my bad luck betting will win it for England!
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None of them, like most of the country, know the words, so just mumble/make it look like they are singing.
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None of them, like most of the country, know the words, so just mumble/make it look like they are singing.
Nope, you can go back to 96 to see some players properly belting it out
the passion was the important part.A bit off-topic now, but I'd say we're on a kind of slow decline. I look at the place where I grew up and it's a complete ****-hole now.
The middle classes are doing OK but the poor are still poor, and there's no reason to look after their own homes because they all rent from private landlord. The council's don't have money to look after the place any more, and it's all just falling apart.
Inequality is destroying places like where I grew up. So yeah, we are going backwards in some metrics.
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Nope, you can go back to 96 to see some players properly belting it out
Yeah but half the squad(at least) wasnt born then, have fewer caps, wont know the words.
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this
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no we really ahve gone backwards but thats for another thread, not here
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Yeah but half the squad(at least) wasnt born then, have fewer caps, wont know the words.
Still missing the point and has nothing to do with when they were born
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Still missing the point and has nothing to do with when they were born
I'm not, just disagreeing.
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It's true, the biggest factor in international football is how loudly you sing a completely meaningless song.
Yeah, you can thank Blair et al for suggesting it's "racist" to fly the union jack or suggest that maybe we should talk about whether we wanted complete freedom of movement within the EU. Then Blair and Brown for deregulating the financial services industry contributing to the 2008 crash, then Cameron and Osborne for defunding pretty much all public services and welfare under the name of "austerity" while pandering to their rich chums and restricting hmrc investigation into offshore and tax evasion etc.
Inequality is growing and the gov. don't give a damn, yet enough average people keep voting for them because "taxes are bad". FFS we'll get like Greece before too long.
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You're trying to suggest the players can't remember a few words despite them likely being more educated than the lads were back then.
It's about the passion and how some people view that these days when it all looks a bit too patriotic.
That wasn't even being suggested but nice take.
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Unlikely, people seem to forget that when Denmark won in 92 only 8 teams were in it. Yes they weren't favourites but nothing like the longshots Leicester were.
Well good job you're not one of those fans that flip flops like that hey!
No you're confusing the Euros with Eurovision. One has a load of groups of enthusiatic people, some bearded, in silly clothes, prancing around a stage while singing some nonsense before some questionable judging and lots of spectators decides who wins, the other has teams of people, some with beards, in silly clothes singing an anthem, half the time badly, or sometimes unintelligibly, before prancing around a pitch with a ball, whereby some questionable refereeing influences who wins to the mirth/misery of the many spectators.
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well said
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The italian players and fans were belting out their national anthem before the game. You can never accuse the Italians of being a bit limp when it comes to patriotism. Why not eh? You should be proud to represent your country at the highest level of any sport.
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LOL.
The point is, i wont be sad if we get battered tonight but of course will be happy if we win.
And thats party down to the 100 reasons already mentioned already on what a farce England is and some of the people are.
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What if you are actually not that "proud" of your country due to how its been run and the kind of people there?
You see, part of being proud of a international team is backed by actually being proud of the country itself and the way you feel its being run etc etc.
Basically, for me anyway i support and back the england football team and its staff.
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Who could actually sing the national anthem.....I dont know the words other than a few lines, why would young players. Far more likely/logical than being scared to be patriotic, thats Daily Mail level nonsense.
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