Would you wear another country's colours?

[alan partridge]

It's exactly that sort of attitiude that makes the English afraid to be proud of where they're from and what they are, for fear of being branded racist. [/B]

oh come off it mate don't go down that path. nothing stopping us being proud of being english, that's just a lazy excuse bigots use to try and make people feel they can't.

anyway, i wear spain's shirt bein half spanish but when england and spain meet its england all the way until the final whistle..when i feel slightly sorry for the spanish, but not too much to spoil my enjoyment (thinks euro 96).

other than that, after the albion its deportivo. i like to stick to a certain colour scheme

 

[Wilts]

Used to have Wales kits until I was about 6. The folks are both Welsh/ Londoners and are proud of their Welsh heritage... and tried to bring me up to feel Welsh. Fortunately I saw sense after age 6!

English born and bred (actually, not born, that's Germany - another story). Alright, I'm Welsh but feel English, is that better?

 

[Brighton Jock]

Personally i wouldn't, but on my travels i always by my 12 year old son a shirt . national team or club side he loves wearing them, still can't get him into a Scotland shirt though but who could blame him for that!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Deportivo 'a Coruna because thats where my mother's from. Wouldn't be seen dead in a Spanish top ... went to Euro'96 ..laughed my sox off when Nadal missed

 

[Lord Bracknell]

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A DUKLA-PRAGUE AWAY KIT

 

[fatbadger]

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A DUKLA-PRAGUE AWAY KIT

yeah, but nerys hughes has to wear it

 

[Brovion]

i can't see a problem with it at all, if you like the shirt, or have some connection then go ahead....but..

what does bother me more is the increasing number of people who wear england shirts all the time....just try walking through churchill square and counting the numbers. while i know not many people will agree with me on this, i see it as perhaps a little bit nationalistic, a statement to others "that i'm english" ...which i don't like at all and is unnecessary

Afters I have to respectfully disagree. I think it's brilliant that we are finally establishing an independent 'English' identity as opposed to just being 'British'. OK the football team isn't the best thing to rally round but its a start. Hopefully English people will become more political.

 

[Brovion]

Used to have Wales kits until I was about 6. The folks are both Welsh/ Londoners and are proud of their Welsh heritage... and tried to bring me up to feel Welsh. Fortunately I saw sense after age 6!

English born and bred (actually, not born, that's Germany - another story). Alright, I'm Welsh but feel English, is that better?

Know exactly what you mean. I'm only a quarter English (and that bit is mainly Scottish) but having been born and bought up here I 'feel' 100% English.

 

[Brixtaan]

I'm thinking of dumping England for Wales.Their kit looks better and they play better football.

Oh,and i like Blaenau Ffestiniog railway.

 

[albiongirl]

I could wear Scotlands colours with out a prob as my dad is Scottish!! but I,m born and bred in Brighton so I wear Englands.

 

[bhaexpress]

Who is 'we'?

Great Britain, who else ?

 

[perth seagull]

Great Britain, who else ?

"We" were never an ally of the Confederates. The British Government considered joining the Confederates against the USA to check the growing power of that country. Plus, the Confederates had closer economic ties to the UK than the USA did.

But the general public in Britain sympathised with the USA not the Southern slave states. Making a war against the USA potentially very costly and certainly unpopular and pointless.

 

[SM BHAFC]

No way England shirt only for me, somebody said people who wear Brazil shirts is more about fashion is probably right and as for the person who said they would wear other countries shirts as football is about breaking down barriers!

No it's not supporting England is about being proud to be English and f*** everyone else.

I hate seing people from Brighton wearing Man U, Chelsea shirts and wearing an Argentina Shirt which i have seen and the bloke was English is even worse.

 

[sully]

I just wouldn't feel comfortable in another country's footy shirt.

I'd rather wear a dress!

 

[fatbadger]

Spot on Perth.

bhaexpress, you are talking absolute cack.

We were never on either side, although the controversy over Gladstone's Newcastle speech seems to have made (a very few)people think otherwise.

Not only were the working men of Britain famously on the side of the North (because they opposed slavery), as Perth points out, but the actions of the cotton workers - who chose penury rather than support the South through working on cotton imported from ther - played a major part in the creation of the first mass electorate in the 1867 Reform Act. The reasoning of the political elites was that the cotton workers had proved their political maturity by their actions, and thus skilled workers deserved a say in the running of the country.

We - i.e. the British people - were firmly in favour of the North, and, it could be argued, the British people's support of the North played an important part in the beginnings of modern mass democracy.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Sorry but I wouldn't consider anything other than 3 shirts. England and Brighton football and England rugby.

I've lived in India, Australia and Japan but would never support anything else than my home town club / country of birth enough to buy a shirt. Is that racist, is it bigoted? Is it f***.

Now ruminate on this. Norman Tebbit in the 80s said we should only let in Asians if they agreed to a "cricket test" and supported England in cricket games against their home nation. Would you support India against England if you worked there? No. Should it stop your freedom of movement? No. Conclusive proof that Tebbit was a clown

 

[Robbo]

for the record, i respectfully disagree.

YEAH

 

[Gary Nelson]

As I stated, I wear my Czeck shirt with pride and cos I like it! However, if I visited Northen Ireland I wouldnt buy one of their shirts or anyother home nations because it wouldnt be right for me

 

[Mr Popkins]

i have a retro italy shirt with maldini and no 3 on the back.
bought it a few years ago, dont know why now?!, only wear it around the house and to pop over the shop in.
looks nice though

 

[Benny Seagull]

Yes. I hope your joking you narrow minded f*** as I am half Italian, but born in England, therefore I support both, but would always back England if they play Italy. Benny, we gave you pasta, the renaissance and the Sopranos, so unless you want a horses head in your bed, go and look up the meaning of ''omerta", capiche?

sorry southy. it was a joke and a bad one at that. hope no offence is taken.