To NOT support England ???

100% agree. What has football got to do with colonisation (if that is presumably what this is about)? If OP regularly supports the opposite team, I hope they don't support France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Russia, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Probably several others that I'm forgetting about. Probably throw in USA for their part in slavery too. And double Germany because they were once Nazis. Honestly ridiculous.

I think it's nice to support the country you live in (unless they are playing your home country and you prefer to support them). I lived in Germany during the last world cup and supported them as well as England. I would have supported England if they had played Germany though.

I think you are entitled to have any opinion you want about the country you've chosen to live in, and any opinion you choose about whether their football team wins. However, given you live with a person who is presumably feels differently about the country he lives in and its football team, I think its unnecessarily rude and provocative to make a performance about supporting the other side. It's a reasonable bet that English people who like football would be supporting England, so unless you were a genuine supporter of Spain I don't get why you'd even get into this with your partner other than to be awkward.

The funny thing is the English are nowhere NEAR as patriotic as the Scottish/Irish… both of whom happily profited from the slave trade.

Same here. I’m not British, but it’s always interesting to see posters rushing in and accusing others of being Reform voters if they display even a hint of patriotism in any shape or form.

Hahaha, what a knob

I just think they’re trying to offset their personal guilt at the fact they’re choosing to live and pay taxes here… by saying ‘well I still hope they lose the euros’

I don't think it's about football. You seem to dislike England because of what some people who are now all dead did. I can't stand that victim mentality. Go on hating the Swedes for the brutality of the vikings, the Germans for obvious reasons etc. But what are you doing living in such a horrific country? Surely there must be à country with a pure history where you could live? Switzerland are known to have been neutral so why don't you try your luck over there.. their football team are in need of supporters!

I'm English but would never support England in a football final. I'm really not into football so I'm not going to suddenly support them because they're in a final.

They wouldn't ask someone who was a Man U fan living in London to suddenly start supporting Chelsea because they live there, so they shouldn't be telling you to support England because you live in England either.

Support who you like. It doesn't matter where you're from or where you live.

Right….,

You know many of the English team have family trees in formerly colonised (and worse) countries?

It may be that your colleague’s issue with you is your general rudeness, your active insulting of his team, etc.

But in the end it’s just football and whether you even watch and whoever you choose to ‘support’ makes no difference.

The 'anyone but England', based on distant history, attitude is just so divisive and unnecessary IMO.

I couldn't give a shiny shite that England lost last night - couldn't be less interested in football (more of a rugby girl). Did not even watch it.

But social media is grinding my gears today, purely because I get sick to the back teeth of being 'hated' for something I was never guilty of. Eg. Irish colleague today coming at me just because of how my voice sounds.

I expect a lot of English people feel similar, and that's why they get their backs up!

My friend is half Spanish half Greek Cypriot, born in Ireland, raised in Scotland and lived most of her adult life in England. She is all for Spain, its just a game a little bit of healthy competition. Whoever said that is odd.

I’m not I’m seeing the usual on MN these days, divisive wind up merchants that appear to be quite miserable and before you respond I have Scandinavian heritage so no truck here!

I don’t actively support any football teams. It’s not compulsory. Sounds a bit like the Tebbit test, which is a bit unpleasant.

I think it’s more ‘I don’t support the football because famine/Gaza’ etc.

It makes as much sense as putting a stapler in a jelly

I'm kind of seeing a number of Reform voters on this thread, if not worse. ENGERLAND FOOTBAWW - love it or leave it! etc etc.

So you’re not Scottish, is Australia a former colony of England or Britain?

It’s not what I observed when Wales progressed further than England, to be honest.
I have zero interest in football so I don’t support any team. I was slightly dreading an England win for the inevitable going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about it on the tv and social media for the next zillion years though. I didn’t actively wish them to lose because I don’t have enough interest in it to do that, but England fans and the media do the team no favours.

Aye crack on then

Glad they lost

If I was Dave I'd put your stapler in jelly

It’s probably the endless ‘anyone but England’ attitude. We get it, you hate England (yet choose to live here).
I also doubt this happened, it was just an excuse for yet another thread from an anti English poster ✌️