#579

I’ve asked this question, I wouldn’t count on it being answered.

#580

Never too many times to post this tbh

#581

I mean I’m sure those on the end of your suggestion that they’re xenophobic or worse are too. But we’ve come a long way over the course of the tournament by having discussions on these topics and I thought there was more of an understanding between those of differing positions.

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#582

of course it’s not the same but you don’t don’t make jokes about a nation of people on the back of a horrific incident

#583

If he came up and asked me for directions or something I’d make the Klinsmann noise

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#584

England fans shouldn’t be allowed to take cocaine imo

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#585

Have you been to any games in Europe as an away fan?

I’ve had mates badly injured in France, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Holland, Spain just off the top of my head.

A mate kidnapped by the police in Moscow for fucks sake.

It’s generally pretty dangerous

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#586

This is a genuine question, I’m not stirring, but do you think the England national side’s support is an outlier compared to other national teams? Because from where I sit as a non-football fan, it’s very apparent to me that hooliganism at a club level at least is far from from an exclusively English problem.

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#587

Stop making these ridiculous comparisons then

No one was doing that

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#588

Yeah I absolutely do, I’m aware all nations have hooligans etc, it just seems to me England has a special problem with it right now specifically, in part of course due to non-stop nationalistic discourse and ongoing divisions being stoked up. I suppose in a mainstreamification of this kind of behaviour I suppose.

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#589

Severed posting three lion emojis as a reply to the article is literally doing that?

Don’t care that he has myself mind.

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#590

Which countries with similar numbers of fans and the same level of interest do you think have less of a problem? I’m not aware of it happening much in Spain, but it definitely does in Italy and France

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#591

I’d be genuinely interested to know whether this is true to be honest, because the sad fact is that it has definitely been even worse in the past. The question of what action has been taken by the police is also highly relevant.

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#592

I think it is, yes. But club football if anything is safer in England than elsewhere than Europe.(ime)

Incidentally, I haven’t been too exotic in my football attending during the years but the only place I’ve been genuinely actually scared was ninian park. And I was in the home end!

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#593

This was only a few months ago;

#594

Did you really see that as being a joke about all English people? It was part of the overall discussion that’s still ongoing in this thread about England fan’s behaviour and whether it’s unique to them in comparison to other countries fans, a worthwhile discussion imo. It’s hardly some kind of gross racial slur.

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#595

Two months ago in Scotland.

The main connections I’m seeing here are men and football.

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#596

I think it’s more the entire nation’s ethical compass has been skewed in a dark direction and that probably bolsters benign seeming but ultimately harmful behaviours, specifically towards football

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#597

Didn’t say it was a gross racial slur

#598

that video of a paralytic England fan in France in 2016 going “everyone’s had a drink” but instead everyone’s done a line

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