To NOT support England ???

As an Irish person I will NEVER support England. I will cheer for whoever the opposition is everytime!!!

And on that note I was delighted for spain last night 🎉🎉🇪🇸🇪🇸

Maybe give up the football talk and stick to something else. You obviously don't realise the quality of a couple of those teams.

Rainbow, sweetheart, have at it, doesn't bother me in the slightest girl!

It's not just sour grapes, it's a rational reaction to the OTT way the British media goes on about the team. Of course people laugh at it. It's cringe worthy. The general population doesn't seem to carry on like that, but I'm looking at the news, so getting a small sample.

Wow you're so rude. Of course you should support either your home country's team or the country you're living in. Otherwise it sounds like you hate us?!

How is it sour grapes when the actual England fans were wanting Southgate sacked? For a country of its size England should be romping it against Slovenia, Denmark and Switzerland, and they didn’t. They relied on a lot of decisions going their way.

So you are a self-confessed non football fan and yet you have the knowledge and insight to state they are ‘shit so this is not something you really know is it?

Fine to be a but miserable about it all of course - hope the kebab was nice.

In my place of work, we have a Spanish national who obviously supported Spain. We also had lots of discussion about how Spain were the stronger team and deserved to win. So I think we were grown-up and subjective about it all.

But then there is just that one twat who bleats on about 'supporting the other team on principle' and came in laughing about it.

I think being known for anti-English sentiment, especially among co-workers who you presumably want to get along with, is not particularly big or clever. The football didn't colonise or subjugate anyone and neither did their fans. It particularly rankles if the person being loudly and aggressively anti-English has chosen to build a life in England because then it's as if they're whining on just to piss people off.

So? You can only beat the teams in front of you. Do you watch much football?

No, I meant in response to ‘little Englander, colonialism’ blah blah - there is PLENTY we could say in return but can’t, as they would go sobbing to the mods as they can’t take it in reverse.

@EllaVoday that was meant to be more lighthearted than it sounded reading it back as opposed to trying to insulting. However I do think your comment was really unnecessary and childish.

oh and it was the diving/decisions and also the luck of the draw in not getting any bigger teams to play really until the semi final.

In football terms, go nuts! You'll be here all night though.

They couldn’t have got the the final if they played that badly, it’s just nonsense that it is all luck and that they don’t have interesting young players, just rubbish, said by folk that is really just sour grapes.

Yet if we discussed Ireland’s many faults no doubt you would go crying to the mods!

@Shaketherombooga I'm English through and through and actively hoped they wouldn't make it as far as they did.

I just can't be doing with all the 'footballs coming home' crap - no it isn't. And it won't until they're less shit. And even if they eventually become less shit I still won't care, and still won't want them to win.

I went to bed before 8pm last night with my takeaway kebab, put my phone on silent and banned anyone in the house from talking to me about the result because I. Just. Don't. Care.

So yeah your colleague is being unreasonable. I think you've been remarkably polite. I wouldn't have been!

Awaits the horrible comments (which I also won't care about)

What the fuck are you on about? HTH pet loveen.

Where are you from, OP?

Actually they played pretty well yesterday hence why it took ages for Spain to score. I think they should be happy with that performance.

I remember supporting Scotland in the 1974 World Cup. England hadn't qualified so Scotland it was, despite being English with an Irish mother. You're riddled with prejudice OP

"Perhaps take the time to peruse the previous comments which explains in detail why people might not support England. HTH."

@DanielGault perhaps take the time to read the post you're replying to and explain where I said that it matters who supports who?
Your attitude absolutely stinks and you're so blinded by your own prejudice that you're seeing things that aren't there. HTH pet.

And for anyone that hasn't seen it - English ppl, men & women, girls & boys on tenterhooks & then feeling pure elation at the final successful penalty in the semis. Wanna bet OP wouldn't be smug & sneering in their faces like she was to Dave?

https://twitter.com/HarjapBhangal/status/1809659744950288488?t=F5yfyNDMwi8JzXCKJK10fw&s=19

You say it is your country but quite a few in NI would disagree. Are you going to ignore that fact?

They did play badly. That’s why the England supporters wanted Southgate sacked a few weeks ago. They were very, very lucky to get to the final with that quality of play. The luck mostly came from referee decisions going their way even when they were blatantly diving.

But surely you can see from the thread how some people feel they're 'owed' support? That's exactly the kind of attitude that switches the rest of us off. I always started the matches supporting England but by roughly half time I switched because the commentators were so insufferable. It's not a dislike of English people, rather the OTT coverage of the football team.