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To report my colleagues fantasy football team name?

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Hulkins87 · 21/08/2026 20:56

We have a work fantasy football league, it’s advertised on the internal intranet site and emails were sent around about sign up details etc.

The league has gone live tonight so you can see everyone’s team including their team names.

A colleague has a team name which references stopping the boats - would it be wrong of me to report this?

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HiEarthlings · 02/09/2026 06:01

ilovesooty · 21/08/2026 21:45

It's in a work setting. What do you need to have explained to you?

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Because that commenter obviously agrees with the feelings of the fantasy football teams manager (or whatever they call themselves), with regards to the boats.

Slartibartslow · 25/08/2026 15:00

Presumably your occupation is not doing fantasy football and this league is just something that you and your colleagues do outside of work time unless your employer pays you to play fantasy football? In which case this has nothing at all to do with work and you are just using it to have a go at someone with different views to yourself? Not a very nice thing to do.

Stolengoat · 25/08/2026 07:11

LakieLady · 22/08/2026 08:01

Yes, there's nothing like a bit of light-hearted xenophobia to brighten up the day, is there?🙄

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So you think any sort of controlled immigration is xenophobic?

Winter2020 · 23/08/2026 19:38

placemats · 22/08/2026 22:02

Yes let's have a laugh about the last invasion I forgot to mention. The fascist Hitler and WW2. The bombings and thousands killed. Lest we forget.

Thankfully those boats were stopped. Churchill, as a consequence of peace, engaged with Europe post the war and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland became founders of the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR.

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Only to see those laws designed to protect peace exploited to allow rapists and murderers to stay in the country because their child likes a British chicken nugget.

Winter2020 · 23/08/2026 19:35

placemats · 22/08/2026 21:44

Didn't people in England want to stop the Romans invading England by boats?

Didn't people living in England during the Viking invasion want to stop the boats?

Didn't people in England want to stop the Norman invasion by boats?

Yet I bet all of you love a Roman ruin, love visiting York and as for Norman churches and castles, they still stand and are much loved.

What does this mean? That one day we can enjoy visiting the scorched ruins of our 2020 existence?

LuckyHazelFox · 23/08/2026 10:28

Lavenderblue11 · 23/08/2026 10:07

Everybody wants to stop the boats, so no, the name shouldn't be reported.

Well, yes, everyone who can weigh the situation up for its fiscal and security values. Virtuous platitudes don't count.

Lavenderblue11 · 23/08/2026 10:07

Everybody wants to stop the boats, so no, the name shouldn't be reported.

Whaleandsnail6 · 23/08/2026 09:11

GeneralPeter · 23/08/2026 08:34

But genuinely, report for what?

Reporting colleagues to HR for their (legal, mainstream) political views is abhorrent.

Unless all mention of politics by staff is a reportable matter. But that seems unlikely.

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I agree but also the name doesn't actually reference any politics.

Op could report the name and the colleague could just say "yeah, my mate Nige is a goalie for our 5 aside team...he stops the goals"

Nothing about the sentence "Nige will stop them" is offensive or inappropriate, nor does it mention stopping boats or anyone....op has chosen to interpret it that way

GeneralPeter · 23/08/2026 08:34

ASongOfRiceAndPeas · 22/08/2026 18:32

Absolutely report this OP and ignore the weirdo racists on here. What has happened to mumsnet? I hadn’t realised it was so fervently right wing now.

But genuinely, report for what?

Reporting colleagues to HR for their (legal, mainstream) political views is abhorrent.

Unless all mention of politics by staff is a reportable matter. But that seems unlikely.

keepincool · 22/08/2026 22:29

My ex and his teammates called their team the Punani Army - which is more offensive than a fantasy name, imo.

LuckyHazelFox · 22/08/2026 22:20

TopPocketFind · 22/08/2026 21:58

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c2k7en0lxkjo

What's that got to do with the thread apart from the link to football?

placemats · 22/08/2026 22:02

autumnwitch4 · 22/08/2026 21:48

This is really scraping the barrel and your most recent example took place nearly 1000 years ago.

But thank you for the laugh on this Saturday evening.

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Yes let's have a laugh about the last invasion I forgot to mention. The fascist Hitler and WW2. The bombings and thousands killed. Lest we forget.

Thankfully those boats were stopped. Churchill, as a consequence of peace, engaged with Europe post the war and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland became founders of the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR.

autumnwitch4 · 22/08/2026 21:48

placemats · 22/08/2026 21:44

Didn't people in England want to stop the Romans invading England by boats?

Didn't people living in England during the Viking invasion want to stop the boats?

Didn't people in England want to stop the Norman invasion by boats?

Yet I bet all of you love a Roman ruin, love visiting York and as for Norman churches and castles, they still stand and are much loved.

This is really scraping the barrel and your most recent example took place nearly 1000 years ago.

But thank you for the laugh on this Saturday evening.

placemats · 22/08/2026 21:44

Didn't people in England want to stop the Romans invading England by boats?

Didn't people living in England during the Viking invasion want to stop the boats?

Didn't people in England want to stop the Norman invasion by boats?

Yet I bet all of you love a Roman ruin, love visiting York and as for Norman churches and castles, they still stand and are much loved.

SBGM247 · 22/08/2026 21:28

Hulkins87 · 21/08/2026 20:56

We have a work fantasy football league, it’s advertised on the internal intranet site and emails were sent around about sign up details etc.

The league has gone live tonight so you can see everyone’s team including their team names.

A colleague has a team name which references stopping the boats - would it be wrong of me to report this?

Don't you want to stop the boats?

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LuckyHazelFox · 22/08/2026 20:58

placemats · 22/08/2026 20:50

The smell of a beloved dog when they roll in fox shit is horrible. Are we all agreed?

This is specifically about football and racism. Gone are the days when you can hide behind insults, banana skins and laugh emojis.

We see you.

Keep trying. We also see you, trying to shut down conversation you don't like.

VeneziaJ · 22/08/2026 20:54

No I would find it offensive too

placemats · 22/08/2026 20:50

The smell of a beloved dog when they roll in fox shit is horrible. Are we all agreed?

This is specifically about football and racism. Gone are the days when you can hide behind insults, banana skins and laugh emojis.

We see you.

Pinkbob74 · 22/08/2026 19:46

Objectively they could be referring to any boats! Whaling boats, the ones blocking the strait of Hormuz ... What are your grounds for assuming this is racist? What proof do you have of racism? I think you'll find you're chasing your tail and causing people unnecessary hassle because you're assuming racism when there's actually no proof of it.

LuckyHazelFox · 22/08/2026 19:43

olivepicanto · 22/08/2026 19:19

It's so odd, isn't it? And all concentrated on a just a few, particular threads

So transparent

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What's more odd is somebody seeing fit to start these predictable leftie threads. OP missing in action, or is she?

placemats · 22/08/2026 19:27

https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4353667/all-the-nations-represented-in-the-premier-league

Perhaps those posters who reply with laughing emojis can have a read at this.

Remember the days that banana skins were thrown onto the pitch? Those fans would be banned now and rightly so. They don't love football, they do love racism.

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