[Football] Is anyone else embarrassed by the booing of the German national anthem

[Iggle Piggle]

This sounds like another one of your tall tales.

Be honest, you've added the bits about children, snarling and bemused away fans (as if they'd never heard it before ) for effect. Assuming you were in the crowd you could've only possibly witnessed the handful of people in your immediate vicinity.

I wasn't at that game but know people who were and their account was that it was very good natured with the Dutch fans.

Imagine being lucky enough to go to one of the best England performances in living memory where we tore apart a very good Dutch team and that being your takeaway. It's like going to the Wigan game and grumbling about the pitch invasion.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Imagine being lucky enough to go to one of the best England performances in living memory where we tore apart a very good Dutch team and that being your takeaway. It's like going to the Wigan game and grumbling about the pitch invasion.

Mind boggling!

As stated the booking is just pantomime, but I'd be worried about some people if they went to an actual pantomime these days. They'd come out grumbling about animal cruelty to the donkey, Aladdin's experience with racism and the ugly sisters being transphobic!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

The fans booed the National Anthem of Leichenstein when it was played once. If you've never heard it, its a familiar tune.

That’s very funny. Just listened to it as hadn’t done so before.
BOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I've stayed out of this thread as I stay out of most like it. But this post nails it for me. People don't choose their nationality. Twenty five years ago I was at Wembley for the Netherlands 4-1 game - glorious victory but the sight of thousands of England fans - including dads geeing on their small children - booing the Dutch anthem and snarling at the bemused away fans was depressing and I told myself I would stick to the Albion in future. I have never been to another England match.

As far as last night was concerned there was plenty of complete and utter tin pottery from England fans. We muted the tv when the anthem booing started and I disappeared into the kitchen before GSTQ struck up.

Was it classy? I am just trying to imagine what our reaction would be if Palace fans danced ecstatically in the streets of old Thornton Heath after beating us, getting drunk and singing into the night before buying the Croydon Bugle next day to read 16-page reports on the historic and fabulous victory whilst giving incoherent interviews to BBC London. We might possibly accuse them of being needy little victims bereft of class.

And we'd be right.


(Brilliant game though.)

Welcome back Lincoln. I would have no problem with Palace fans having a beer and dancing in the streets if they beat us. It’s football. It’s the reason we all love it. It’s all about enjoyment. Forget your angst and join in (not with the Palace fans though).

 

[lawros left foot]

Okay so you pull me into this, thanks.

Yes, you're right in saying I have a brand and I may think more laterally than the medial thinkers on here.
But your assumption is wrong, perhaps your being sucked into a vortex from looney lefties that push there agendas to death on here

I disagree with the booing of any national anthems as it is disrespectful, but it's not to say we shouldn't rip into them and compete like intelligent wild dogs.

To say I am a nationalist is also exaggerated.

Let's put it this way, Britain is my wife, I am loyal and will back her/them to the hilt, all other countries are tarts trying to distract me to make me play away, its never going happen.
The day I show more affection to a tart/country, my loyalties have shifted and the only solution would be to move out with tart or move country.
I see many on here who show bigger loyalties to the tarts/countries.
So all those that love countries more than Britain should leave, as you wasting everyone's time at somewhere you have no loyalty or compassion about.

So perhaps they should be packing their suitcases? And don't forget the tart and a flag.

Mouldy, I doff my cap to you.

What a brilliant post.

I, too love my country, I’m just not over keen on some of the tw@s who share it with me, and it will never be “ My country, right or wrong’.

 

[Justice]

Imagine being lucky enough to go to one of the best England performances in living memory where we tore apart a very good Dutch team and that being your takeaway. It's like going to the Wigan game and grumbling about the pitch invasion.

Quite a few grumbled about the pitch invasion on here

 

[Lenny Rider]

Great result tonight, but the booing and disrespect of the oppositions national anthem I find absolutely embarrassing.

Spot on.

Went to Hatton vs Mayweather in Vegas in Dec 2007, as did unfortunately several thousand members of the British white underclass.

After Sir Tom Jones had sung the National Anthem the Star Spangled Banner was drowned out by boos, the next day we had a cab driver who said it was ultimately disrespectful to every American serviceman killed in WW2 defending the UK, if they hadn't he said we'd all be speaking German.

Some of the memes etc afterwards were funny, but the booing, maybe it would stop if they actively ejected a number of booers each game?

 

[Chicken Run]

Apologies. I didn't see a single post from anyone saying they were ashamed to be English. I must have missed them. .

Only 2 of our members are embarrassed to be English

Most wanky behaviour goes over my head, I was embarrassed to be English when that booing started. Despicable lack of respect

But I am old school, so probably out of touch

Thick headed morons who show a lack of class. Just makes me hate being English. But then so much of society is like this now. I think I just hate the human race.

And Biscuit doesn’t think much of GB at all[emoji23]

We're a nasty little rock, really. Always have been.

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[Icy Gull]

Only 2 of our members are embarrassed to be English





And Biscuit doesn’t think much of GB at all[emoji23]



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Stand by it to, even if most on here think it’s just banter and panto

I am in no way embarrassed to be English, other than when fans boo National Anthems or resort to bullying and hooliganism

 

[Justice]

It is embarrassing and outdated. Plus it is only going to fire up the opposition more.

 

[FloatLeft]

Perhaps this excerpt from an article in the Guardian (of all the papers) explains the booing to the lily livers with:

“The Germans are greeted with a guttural, territorial rasp of revulsion, one that carries with it a solemn pledge: this may be a half-empty Wembley, a Wembley decked out in reptilian Uefa aquamarine, banded by adverts for weird postmodern brands (what on earth is Alipay anyway: a bank, an app, some kind of muesli?). But this is our home, this is our garden and you are not welcome to it.”

And then 90 minutes later, hostilities are over and we’re all friends again.

Perhaps if their national anthem was played after the game there would have been sympathetic silence and applause.

 

[Solid at the back]

For christ sakes, how anyone can be offended by this is beyond me. Oh wait, we're Brighton fans and get offended by everything. Do you not have any real problems that you have to be offended for other people?

It's a national anthem, maybe it meant something 100 years ago. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Go out of their way?

It came into my living room last night. I didn’t have to look for it or find it. It’s childish and boorish.
Upset? No. Surprised? No.

Perfect word for it, sums it nicely

 

[Hampster Gull]

For christ sakes, how anyone can be offended by this is beyond me. Oh wait, we're Brighton fans and get offended by everything. Do you not have any real problems that you have to be offended for other people?

It's a national anthem, maybe it meant something 100 years ago. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

We aren’t a collective of people with the same views, other than perhaps supporting the Albion, so that’s hyperbole although NSC i think demonstrates that amongst Albion fans we will every offence covered by at least one person

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Mouldy, I doff my cap to you.

What a brilliant post.

I, too love my country, I’m just not over keen on some of the tw@s who share it with me, and it will never be “ My country, right or wrong’.

Why thanks your Sir,

There are Tw@ts everywhere though Lawro, what can we do, tolerate them, love thy neighbour is all you can do.

Meanwhile, I caught my neighbour mouthing off about us on Twitter, a really silly thing to do.


That is a whole new thread.........one day!

 

[faoileán]

Always embarassing.

England fans the worst thing about the English national football team.

This is true. If England fans were allowed to travel to Rome for the match on Saturday it is 100% predictable what would happen; the tinkling of broken glass, chairs flying through the air, and pathetic songs about German bombers and the IRA.

 

[faoileán]

Even heard a few sing ‘no surrender’ as part of the anthem - surely racist or some sort of PC wrong singing… or making a stand against evil terrorists

So don't England fans read the news? The IRA declared a ceasefire 27 years ago, and dumped arms 16 years ago. No point in surrendering to them now is there? Oh and the last time the RAF of Ingerland shot down a German bomber was 76 years ago...

 

[Weststander]

This is true. If England fans were allowed to travel to Rome for the match on Saturday it is 100% predictable what would happen; the tinkling of broken glass, chairs flying through the air, and pathetic songs about German bombers and the IRA.

Fighting with knife carrying Italians, trashing local antiquities.

For ‘the craic’ apparently.

 

[faoileán]

I knew it was coming and the North Stand Knitting Circle would be out in force tonight. I enjoyed it so much I'm still booing now. My wife brought me a cup of tea in and I booooood her out the room. I'll still be booing in my sleep tonight. Booooooooo!

Looks like you and Pretty Pink Fairy have got a bromance going on; you like his posts and he likes yours. It's cute...

 

[Sheebo]

So don't England fans read the news? The IRA declared a ceasefire 27 years ago, and dumped arms 16 years ago. No point in surrendering to them now is there? Oh and the last time the RAF of Ingerland shot down a German bomber was 76 years ago...

[SUB][/SUB]

'England fans?'

The same poster who suggested I'd asked about a racist song yesterday I see!

Sounds like you're not English - so how come you support the albion?