That's just evil... Our tea is terrible.
English fans in Amsterdam
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Welshman here, far from anti-English - lived there for 12yrs, most of my mates are English. I'm far from a chest-beating patriotic Welshman who lvoes 'getting one over on England'.
But English football fans abroad are the absolute pits.
Even in France when they were targeted by the Russians. The defence/narrative was 'just football fans singing and having a good time'. It wasn't. The England fans they were showing were singing, alright. But they were singing baretop, arms spread out to the side, aggressive confrontational provocative chanting. That sort of body language and tone of voice is pure "come and have a go". They cannot be surprised when people take them up on it.
But English football fans abroad are the absolute pits.
Even in France when they were targeted by the Russians. The defence/narrative was 'just football fans singing and having a good time'. It wasn't. The England fans they were showing were singing, alright. But they were singing baretop, arms spread out to the side, aggressive confrontational provocative chanting. That sort of body language and tone of voice is pure "come and have a go". They cannot be surprised when people take them up on it.
Problem is that some of our fans are still under the illusion that we rule the world, when in fact they will find we have fallen down the pecking order a bit. That foreigners are stupid, when in fact the ones being shown as stupid and ignorant are them. Living in the past, we won the war, we won the World Cup, we gave football to the world. It is infuriating watching them.
This, basically. It’s very sad really
Would wage that 80-90% of England away fans are the Brexit Tommy Robinson type Carling drinking bellends coming to a Wetherspoons near you.
I used to attempt to mitigate my fellow England fans' antics with all sorts of spurious BS about "banter" and "heavy handed policing", but it just gets to a point when a such obfuscation is completely ridiculous. For all the stuff that is written over here about other nations' backward, regressive & illiberal attitudes towards hooliganism take a look at the boorish, anti-social and downright thuggish behaviour of our own "supporters" abroad.
Hope they all have a jolly-up in the former Soviet Union and see where it gets the mardy little clowns
As someone who is born and bred English, but half-Dutch, these fans are the most despicable bunch of morons. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are the same West Ham fans I see around Liverpool Street station in London, booting random signs and being loutish on a Saturday afternoon, thinking their somehow cool or "hard".
Utter cnuts the lot of them and makes possibly the shittest impression of the English, ever. Years of going to the Netherlands to visit family, the English have always been considered friends (WW2 and the Dutch love a holiday to the UK), but stuff like this makes it so embarrassing to be English. Going in a couple weeks, blatantly will have to jokingly caveat that I'm not a football hooligan twat with every single conversation, as it'll be in the forefront of peoples' minds.
Bellends!
Utter cnuts the lot of them and makes possibly the shittest impression of the English, ever. Years of going to the Netherlands to visit family, the English have always been considered friends (WW2 and the Dutch love a holiday to the UK), but stuff like this makes it so embarrassing to be English. Going in a couple weeks, blatantly will have to jokingly caveat that I'm not a football hooligan twat with every single conversation, as it'll be in the forefront of peoples' minds.
Bellends!
Yep Luton Town and Scunthorpe United fans dressed head to toe in Aquascutum and Stone Island.
That's just embarrassing, cowards the lot of 'em, everybody knows you can't have a fair fight if you can't pull their t-shirt/jumper over their head so they can't see what direction the blows are coming from
Not sure.
I actually have a lot of respect for Gareth Southgate saying we should get our own house in order regarding racism when hauling other countries over the coals for it. Hooliganism is raising it's ugly head again. I actually do blame brexit for it, that these neanderthals think they now have the right to do what the hell they like. It was raised on the radio the other day that it could be that a lot of the banning orders are now expiring and these cretins are on the loose again.
That's just embarrassing, cowards the lot of 'em, everybody knows you can't have a fair fight if you can't pull their t-shirt/jumper over their head so they can't see what direction the blows are coming from
I bet they're wearing cricket boxes too, to avoid a swift elbow to the Travellers whilst they've got some lager lout in a headlock. Soft shites.
Still the oppurtinity for an atomic wedgie thoughThat's just embarrassing, cowards the lot of 'em, everybody knows you can't have a fair fight if you can't pull their t-shirt/jumper over their head so they can't see what direction the blows are coming from
.Again I think we can't swallow what the media are feeding us. England and the Uk in general have a problem with binge drinking, which can lead to wankerish behaviour. That doesn't mean there is a rise in football holiganism. Which is a very, very different thing.
I agree about the drinking, but that has been a problem for years, not just with football fans. The English just cannot behave when they have drunk too much, or more that they don't know when they have had too much drink. Maybe they need educating.
Yeah, and knee-pads
I bet they're wearing cricket boxes too, to avoid a swift elbow to the Travellers whilst they've got some lager lout in a headlock. Soft shites.
Wouldn't work with the Russians though, to a man, and I use the word Man loosely they're probably all wearing a MankiniStill the oppurtinity for an atomic wedgie though
Nah, they definitely were the ones that made crap illiterate statuses about it. Something about 'takin the countrie back'. Then ignored everything since.
‘Some’ English abroad. Tar, same brush etc.
Well, this is teeing up nicely for the world cup. What with the disintegration of British relations with Russia because of the nerve agent attack, and the vids of the English fans in Holland I imagine the 'Ultras' are going to be toning their biceps and plotting their attacks!
Ha I'm Northern Irish, I'm not gonna say I don't on occasion have a few too many, not so much now I'm married with kids but when I was younger sure. What I never done though was act like a twat in a harmful or threatening way. It will take more than education, in the UK more than anywhere else I have been in Europe the dangers of alcohol are shoved in our faces to no real improvement of the situation.
Honestly think it will be a complete shitstorm and that's not even mentioning the problems of racism in Russia. Could be worse I guess, the Italians could be there with there section of anti semitic fans.
They keep harping on about footballers being role models. Well I bet some of this lot have somehow managed to become parents, probably needed written directions, yet they cannot seem to grow up, that with age you really should be setting an example. We have all been worse for wear at some time, but as you say it is how you behave after that.
Look out, England fans in Wussia:
Supposedly the generation coming up drink a lot less now, they are even dubbed as 'generation sensible'. I hope that going forward the drinking culture does change.
That could be the case, as some of these seemed older. Just wait until next time they ask the missus if it's Ok to go for a weekend away with the lads.
That's not the truth though is it?
Without generalising too much, a lot of these fans follow lower-division clubs in England. They've been left behind by the PL revolution and they yearn for the old days, before Sky TV et al.
England matches provide a way for these fans to come together, jump into the time warp and relive the 'good old days.'
This
I hope so, and hope it simply hasn't been replaced by something else.
they will have a smartphone standoff. Pwoper nauwty
This was a friendly warm game for the world cup, can't see the Russians putting up with that kind of antics.. it' Giving the proper fans very bad names, in Russia every English fan will be treated the same with disrespect and that's not on.
Kicking a football about in a square where someone can get hit in the head or until someone can either (a) break a window 10 floors up or (b) get it in a window doesn’t seem so bad now.
You know I feel sorry for the dads that work hard to go to the world cup with their sons.
They will all be tarred with the same brush and its not fair.
I honestly think this world cup will see fans dying from violence and riots.
Shame on the animals.
They will all be tarred with the same brush and its not fair.
I honestly think this world cup will see fans dying from violence and riots.
Shame on the animals.
Bunch of wankers who think They're Liam Gallagher so They don't need manners.
Childish behavior.
Childish behavior.
Hilarious spoofThis.
They're the self-appointed guardians of a nation which no longer exists. The warrior caste of a right-wing fantasy island.
Have to say I've always been indifferent to England mainly because of the fans.
They won't act like that in Russia. The Russian Police will be well prepared and just waiting for a flare up.
They most probably didnt go to the actual match
The sad thing being we all know what happens when fans like these get confronted.
They stand off shouting nonsense to each other, pricks start throwing missiles from a distance away which pauses when they get charged and they start to run. Then the little planks walk slowly back with their missiles while giving it the mouth.
The proper fights happen with two firms meeting at a time and place. This nonsense ends up with the mouthy fans running away.
They stand off shouting nonsense to each other, pricks start throwing missiles from a distance away which pauses when they get charged and they start to run. Then the little planks walk slowly back with their missiles while giving it the mouth.
The proper fights happen with two firms meeting at a time and place. This nonsense ends up with the mouthy fans running away.