by soulfinger Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:09 pm
left wrote:Soo…
Went well on the pitch up until the third minute of the final. Downhill all the way after that.
Precipitous downhill all the way off the field. Prime Minister and his cronies refusing to back the players against the boo boys when they took the knee. Right wing political grifters calling the players woke babies and worse on twitter. Same politicians and twatters bandwagon jumping as the team progressed towards the final, having their photo taken in team shirts, waving flags, furiously backtracking on what they had previously said. Johnson and Pritler particularly obnoxious in this regard.
Ingerland "fans" booing the opposing teams' national anthems. Neanderthal Ingerlanders dancing naked, rioting, sticking lit flares up their arses, storming the stadium entrance, central London looking like a cross between a Hogarth painting and Dante's Inferno. To be fair, the North was a bit more civilised.
Post match racist vilification of the three lads who missed pens. Tweets referring to them as N******s, right wing "comedian" tweeting "well the white players scored", a tory member of parliament saying Marcus Rashford should have been practicing penalties not embarrassing the government into providing food for hungry children and then apologising for getting caught, rather than for thinking it.
Ultimately, proud of the players, particularly of Shaw, Maguire, Rashford and Sancho for tribal reasons. Sterling and Henderson for being good guys irrespective of my tribal bias. Everyone else in the squad for being pretty damn good. Southgate for being a decent man when we have a national shortage.
Ashamed that people from other countries will thing the Ingerland lot are representative of the rest of us. They really are not.
Apart from that, it went really well... though I was never more proud of my inherited Irishness and my passport with a harp on it.
[quote="left"]Soo…[/quote]
Went well on the pitch up until the third minute of the final. Downhill all the way after that.
Precipitous downhill all the way off the field. Prime Minister and his cronies refusing to back the players against the boo boys when they took the knee. Right wing political grifters calling the players woke babies and worse on twitter. Same politicians and twatters bandwagon jumping as the team progressed towards the final, having their photo taken in team shirts, waving flags, furiously backtracking on what they had previously said. Johnson and Pritler particularly obnoxious in this regard.
Ingerland "fans" booing the opposing teams' national anthems. Neanderthal Ingerlanders dancing naked, rioting, sticking lit flares up their arses, storming the stadium entrance, central London looking like a cross between a Hogarth painting and Dante's Inferno. To be fair, the North was a bit more civilised.
Post match racist vilification of the three lads who missed pens. Tweets referring to them as N******s, right wing "comedian" tweeting "well the white players scored", a tory member of parliament saying Marcus Rashford should have been practicing penalties not embarrassing the government into providing food for hungry children and then apologising for getting caught, rather than for thinking it.
Ultimately, proud of the players, particularly of Shaw, Maguire, Rashford and Sancho for tribal reasons. Sterling and Henderson for being good guys irrespective of my tribal bias. Everyone else in the squad for being pretty damn good. Southgate for being a decent man when we have a national shortage.
Ashamed that people from other countries will thing the Ingerland lot are representative of the rest of us. They really are not.
Apart from that, it went really well... though I was never more proud of my inherited Irishness and my passport with a harp on it.
