Makes you proud to be English
 

The greatest fans in the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-18576404

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Yep, they were too scared or couldn't afford to go to the Euro's, so lets go and kick the **** out of the Italian fans, whose team who were clearly better on the night

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Well, yesterday afternoon right before the game I went as usual at my fav irish pub for a guinness (kinda 100 m from my door) and i've been denied the entrance for my origin (i'm italian of course...just not italian looking at all: redhead, blue eyes and defo scottish look a like!) for security reason (not me being violent, but the brits when drunk after a couple of minutes..) at first I was pretty annoyed cause i just wanted my refreshing and most of all deserved sunday pint, but reading this completely changed my mind!!
the sad thing is that here that news is something NOT normal, in italy would be so normal that it wouldn't even be reported in the news!! :-(
God save the queen then!! :-)

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Perhaps it would have been okay if you'd explained you were italian?


After all a "no scots" policy is only prudent.

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hahahaha! but I did! the bouncer knows me well as it's my weekly place for the holy sunday pint!

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Only if all your pub sells is shandy and alcopops :)

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The Flame - do you mean in Italy a scuffle like this would not have made the news as it is not uncommon?

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The italian fans were obviously milking it
http://www.theoffside.com/files/2009/09/drogba_dive.jpg

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Bedford, that hooligan hotspot of the country ;)

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Sore losers or what :(

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why cant they just enjoy the game ??

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That's completely irrelevant ;)

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Isn't the hooliganism half the attraction of this flippin' sport? :rolleyes:

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Unfortunately, it's primal, violence at sporting events or events that attracts rivals, has been happening since the dawn of time.

Only takes a few to start then pack mentality takes over, it's in our genes.

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It may be primal but our mentalities are supposed to have evolved just a tad since the days when we did the whole Man kill food, Ugg thing. I say "supposed to", obviously some people would be quite at home living in those times :rolleyes:

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Our mentalities haven't evolved that much, there's a few layers of civilisation on top but we still react on instinct a lot of the time.

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Because England were playing. Think of watching an England match like having a conversation with Ed Miliband. There is no way it can end without you wanting to smash someone's face in.

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Coming from Bedford (thankfully not being English) I can tell you this - if England had won they'd have done exactly the same. The average Bedfordian football fan is a mouth breathing knuckle dragger who has trouble remembering all his possible fathers' names - actually, you can remove the words 'football' and 'fan' from my statement.

Any excuse for a punch up, which is why I'm always happy to move away from the dump and never ever go out in the town centre at night.

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Having spent an enjoyable night with friends just out of Bedford town centre that night (football was watched) on the way home in a taxi we seen several hooligan non Italian types descending on the town centre. Glad I was going the opposite direction.