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To feel happy England are out of the World Cup?

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HappienessIsEggshaped · 20/06/2014 19:28

No more biased commentary. No more mention of 1966 for now
They're going home Grin

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SquattingNeville · 20/06/2014 21:19

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ssd · 20/06/2014 21:19

compos you've lost me there.......as I said, we KNOW Scotlands shite, but so's England

TheBogQueen · 20/06/2014 21:19

Compos - Grin have you been on the vodka ?

ssd · 20/06/2014 21:20

monthehoops

HaroldLloyd · 20/06/2014 21:20

I need vodka.

BuggersMuddle · 20/06/2014 21:20

Well I'm Scottish, so I can't say with any sincerity that I have a deep-seated desire for England to win the world cup, but I would have liked them to do a bit better than they did.

I think compos nails it. The commentary & the 1966 shit is cringeworthy and tbh can get on one's tits. The media were talking 'best team in the competition' when anyone looking remotely closely knew they weren't at their best. Most of the England supporters I actually know were a bit more realistic.

The premier league is full of money & foreign talent. That doesn't automatically translate to a top national squad. Having said that before any other bugger does Scottish football has a bigger mountain to climb.

Anyone for Tennis ? Grin

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HappienessIsEggshaped · 20/06/2014 21:21

Alice drank it all

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WhereTheWildlingsAre · 20/06/2014 21:21

Yes, squattingNeville, yes they are!!

ssd · 20/06/2014 21:21

she shared it with compos

HappienessIsEggshaped · 20/06/2014 21:21

That was to Harold ^^

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crunchbag · 20/06/2014 21:23

I am disappointed but at least I don't have to cheer for Italy anymore.

HappienessIsEggshaped · 20/06/2014 21:23

Monthehoops indeed Grin

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weebarra · 20/06/2014 21:23

Ah Compos, couldn't have put it better myself. My team won the Scottish cup this year, DH's was relegated, the World Cup is light relief!

ThursdayLast · 20/06/2014 21:27

Indeed crunchbag
That was weird

DesperatelySeekingSedatives · 20/06/2014 21:32

If they'd worked their socks off to win I'd be gutted for England but they really haven't. I mean yeah granny shagger Rooney scored last night but it wasn't that hard after it was set up for him like that. Honestly My DP has put more effort into farting.

Both matches so far have been so dull as they always are when England play. Hmm

ssd · 20/06/2014 21:35

still like stevie g

ComposHat · 20/06/2014 21:37

ssd I love Scotland as a place, but just think it is patronising of the English to pat the plucky little Scots on the head and say 'good luck to you, aren't we big and maganomous in gifting our support to you, shame you can't you do the same.' It is more healthy and less condesending to great the invective aimed at the England football team, with some of the same.

I will probably get pelters at work from people whose team hasn't qualified for a major competition since 98 and have never made it out of the group stages and whose proudest world cup moment is a toe bunt in a match they went on to loose 4-1. Really in no position to start crowing about anything. Fair enough if the ribbing was coming from a Brazillian, French or German fan who were coming from a country with a decent world cup pedigree. Worry about your shite team and I'll worry about how shite England are.

Weebarra I do have a soft spot for St Johnstone along with Partick Thistle, but my Scottish team is Hibs, so it hasn't been a great season all round. One of the most offensive assumptions I've had is that i must support Rangers being English, but I hate them (and the sizeable tribe of scumbags and bigots who attach themselves to the club) with a passion.

ssd · 20/06/2014 21:45

compos.....calm down! am worried about you now, not the Scottish team Grin....and if you're talking shite teams...who mentioned Hibs.....

weebarra · 20/06/2014 21:48

Yes, that would be DH's team...
My Bil is in Brazil, about to watch the Honduras v Ecuador game. Jealous.

ComposHat · 20/06/2014 21:52

I know... as I say not a good season. My English team missed out on promotion to the Conference, Hibs got relegated and we will have Rangers fans back on Easter road and we live very close to the stadium. Before they went into adminstration, a bunch of them defecated in the tenement stair because I assume it was painted green.

HappienessIsEggshaped · 20/06/2014 21:55

That is shocking Compo but not surprising.

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ssd · 20/06/2014 21:56

there's idiots on both sides to be true

WildThong · 20/06/2014 21:56

Or maybe they just really needed a poo. Have you ^seen^ the toilets in Easter Road?

Rangers fan here, never having actually shat in someone's close. but have been spat on by fan of another team
As ever, it's all about the Rangers Grin

TheBogQueen · 20/06/2014 21:58

Ummm
Not all rangers fans are bigots. some are quite nice people And the other side has it's moments too. ask any nhs worker.