Booing the German anthem

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Really? Absolutely grotesque behaviour.

all the whataboutery posted by some people here

It isn't "whataboutery" to point out that it isn't just English football fans who do something when that is what is being implied.

There's a verse about General Wade that is about the Scots.

No there isn't. It does not form part of the official lyrics and has never formed part of the National anthem,

The 1836 article and other sources make it clear that this verse was not used soon after 1745, and certainly before the song became accepted as the British national anthem in the 1780s and 1790s.

I'm not English and I felt the fans let themselves down, dreadful behaviour. It certainly doesn't endear the fans to neutrals that's for sure.

@TheVanguardSix

English football fans are never going to be any example of decency. They hate everyone.

Ridiculous!

When it comes to football, the English are very sore losers. They seem to always have an overblown perception of their national team's ability and each time believe that "it" will be coming home.
When "it" does not, good old anti-European rhetoric comes home though.

When it comes to football, the English are very sore losers

Yeah, every other nation takes it so well 😂😂

good old anti-European rhetoric

Good old anti-English rhetoric never goes away. It's tedious.

@LiberteEgaliteBeyonce

When it comes to football, the English are very sore losers. They seem to always have an overblown perception of their national team's ability and each time believe that "it" will be coming home. When "it" does not, good old anti-European rhetoric comes home though.

Yes, we will pretend Ronaldo did not stomp his feet and throw his captains armband on the floor when Portugal went out...

There is nothing wrong with having a bit of belief and general good feeling. It has been a long time for England after all.

Also 'it's coming home' is from a well known popular English football song that comes out every Euro/world cup, it's not something the fans randomly invented.

@SoupDragon

good old anti-European rhetoric

Good old anti-English rhetoric never goes away. It's tedious.

The reality is that in rugby, it is not the same hostility. In rugby, the English team is much easier to support because the fans are so much more graceful. It is not about being anti-English.

I like to annoy DS1 by texting him "it's not coming home" whenever England win.

I am not a football fan.

The reality is that in rugby, it is not the same hostility. In rugby, the English team is much easier to support because the fans are so much more graceful.
It is not about being anti-English

Yeah, of course it isn't. 😂😂🙄

@SoupDragon

The reality is that in rugby, it is not the same hostility. In rugby, the English team is much easier to support because the fans are so much more graceful. It is not about being anti-English

Yeah, of course it isn't. 😂😂🙄

Case in point. Fixed mindset.

I've heard God Save the Queen booed by Irish fans at events too.
Oh really?

I am not a footie fan but enjoy and international.

Booing is just about OK during a match, specially for fouls or bad behaviour. Groans for mistakes/goals against. Fine.

But booing the anthem has a different feel during the anthem. It seems more like booing a whole nation.

So many teams seem to have foreigners on them now, or dual nationals at least, it's hardly about nationality!!

Rugby is fucking boring compared to football though.

I assume you don’t have any Dutch friends …

That was to @User135644

God, give me rugby any day of the week. Football is embarrassingly scummy.

Case in point. Fixed mindset.

As is yours.

Booing when opposition score is understandable though I find it poor taste. Booing any national anthem is completely unacceptable.
This is one of many reasons I've grown to despise a game I loved as a child. I'd take any rugby match over football now. I don't think twice about taking dd to watch a rugby match but I will even avoid going somewhere if there's a football match on nearby.

Women's football is much more family friendly if you want a nice match to go to.

Football can really bring out the worst in people

@looptheloopinahulahoop

It is horrible to boo another country's national anthem.

But it's also ridiculous that the ENGLAND team uses the BRITISH national anthem. I don't understand why none of the team has said anything about it. Completely inappropriate.

Good point.

Nominations for songs they might use instead, specifically for England?

Let's skip Jerusalem (too religious), Land of Hope and Glory (utterly chinless), Three Lions (too obvious), the White Cliffs of Dover (just gloopy).

I suggest Mash It Up Harry, by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

@ohthatbloodycat

God, give me rugby any day of the week. Football is embarrassingly scummy.

Football is so uncivlised. Even the players are a bunch of cheats.

@WalkingOnTheCracks Got to be Bohemian Rhapsody