In Hoping Engand Lose the Footy??

[CockyPants]

Bloody hate football!
Bring on Wimbledon!

I'm sort of with you there, Duffy. Cannot be doing with extra time and penalties. 90 minutes is too much football long enough!

'the more wound up the person gets, the more we find it funny'

Er that is just goading and bullying

jealousy @ not getting to the euros pfft it is football the people who are posting are mostly those who don't give a shiney shite about football no matter the team

is it over?

I was in Duncan fergusons year at school redlac bit of rubbish claim to fame that

yellow come live in the same village as me then - I'm in Fife; there's plenty of it about.

no not over yet sigh dh is watching it

Is that why it maybe ends in violence? really? With Scotland fans?

But rubberglove, it's REALLY not. I think it's just a type of humour that the English don't really "get".

What does it MATTER that some in Scotland don't support the English? I think that's what we find funny and part of the reason we do it. We go "anyone but England" and they get SO pissed off, as if it matters. And it really doesn't.

Maybe that's why it doesn't bother me, Tapir, because the anti-English stuff is a joke for me. Where I come from (Aberdeenshire) there's very little serious anti-English feeling. Ribbings, sure. I've never seen anyone be beaten up or told to fuck off to England, nothing like that.

I have found at times it has a nasty element to it. Not always no, but sometimes.

And I am English, married to a Scotsman and have lived in Scotland for 15 years.

But that's life and of course I am not generalising. My dh is sitting here screaming for England.

Football ends in violence because some of the fans like to fight.

It's not really about club/team loyalties, or who the best player/team/nation is. They like to scrap, and football matches are a convenient meeting place.

rubberglove, sure there is with some people. That's not the sort of winding up I mean though. But you get that everywhere.

YAB Immensely U Op!

yabu
I hate football, but hope they win

yellow It was quite a suprise for me, tbh. I'd seen very little of it when we used to visit dh's family here, but when we actually moved into the village it was a totally different story.

We had a neighbour who moved rather than live next door; there have been fights between 'incomers' and locals, my son was badly bullied because I'm english.

We've been here for over 10yrs now, and because dh grew up here, things have improved, but not by much.

True, true.

I must add my closest friends are Scottish as are my ILs. They have never been nasty, though some of them wouldn't support England, but that is okay.

It is more random people, say in the pub, where I have encountered it. But then I would say that is just the people they are. They would find something to be nasty about whatever their nationality.

I don't get the anyone but Murray thing either. Just because he isn't smooth and has a temper. But he is the best player Britain has seen for a long time. Henman wouldn't have stood a chance against these guys

mrsjay it is a rubbish claim to fame mentioning Fergie but there are very few options for sporting here's from here! I'll only mention willie Carson in future :).

where i live incommers used to be folk who came from the next townto live here

Willie carson is a better example i think ,

Tapir, that's shit. People can be wanks.

Yellow, see, I feel like it does matter. It does matter to me that the two biggest nations on this tiny island can't be supportive of each other. It's just not nice. It matters to me that my family in Scotland are all so anti English that they take the ribbing thing too far and seem to get genuinely pissed off when my Gran (a proper Scot who lives in England) celebrates the jubilee by decorating her house in union flag bunting as if she has somehow betrayed them.

And they are lovely people who are so welcoming and so much fun when I visit, but then they would rather England lose than see their own family have some fun with the whole rubbish that is football. It's wierd!

mrsjay I'm an incomer - originally from a wee village 7 miles away! People can guess I'm an incomer cos of my accent ;) I've not got that Stirling burr after living here for 13 years

Could be wrong but possibly the Murray thing came about because early on in his career, I think he said he was Scottish, not British. That's fine, but if someone actively doesn't want to be part of Britain, then they are unlikely to gain support from people who are British but not Scottish.

redlac Dh husband comes from clackmanan area my dad almost had him frisked by immigration