Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Unfortunately,

this is what it can lead to! :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5101184.stm :(

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Yes, you do. It's a shame. When my friend was living in South Wales (just outside Brigdend :erm: ), I used to go there most weekends. A bit rough tbh, but the welsh seem a very fun loving humourous bunch of people. I had a right laugh, anyway! Although, when she was looking for a house, she was warned away from certain areas by the welsh estate agent, as some villages didn't like english people apparently... :erm:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Utter rubbish. A complete urban myth which belongs in the 1970s.

No doubt there exists a small level of ignorance, just like when I was in Oxford and was often told by the Sloane-types to "get back down the mines".

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

:shrug: Just telling what she was told :shrug:

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She's either lying to you or that estate agent wasn't interested in the sale. It's possible that sort of thing occasionally happens in North Wales but it's definately rare down south. With the M4 we have a LOT of English people here. The only time it can cause a problem is in pubs if people are monged off their face and and an English person is speaking a little loud - and in those cases all that will happen is petty words might be spoken. This happened a few years ago when Neil and a few others came down to Swansea and we went to a pub - no trouble, just a few curious chavs.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I lived in Lampeter for three years, at University. There were several pubs it was understood students (specifically, English students) did not go into. The aftermath of the England v Wales Five Nations (as it then was) match was always a dodgy night to go out on the town, although the year Wales beat us (1993 IIRC) was the worst, as the local chafs (geddit) were roaming the street, steaming drunk, and picking fights with anyone passing by asking them 'are you English?' Nearby there was a farmer who resented there being a public footpath on his land and whose wife one day accosted a group of my friends who were out walking, yelling at them, 'I wish the IRA would bomb your f***ing college!'

Before and since university, I lived close enough to North Wales to be familiar with it, and the holiday home / estate agent firebombings that occurred during the 1980s, and I have English friends who live in Bala and who know that if they go into certain pubs in the outlying villages, they will get a hostile reception and any conversations taking place in English will immediately switch to Welsh. I have also driven the length and breadth of that magnificent country and have come across plenty of roadsigns whose English has been carefully painted out to leave them in Welsh only.

Bitter, anti-English nationalism is a sad reality in Wales today. I am sure it is a minority pursuit, and I love Wales, and have several Welsh friends. I have never met a Welsh individual I didn't like (apart from that farmer's wife). But I think it's a mistake to believe it is confined either to the 1970s, or the north.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I just don't think that someone whos only first team experience is a few games in the championship, should be playing just yet for the international side. Get experience of club football first. Like I said, in a few years, just not now.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I don't! You've said about your North Wallian experiences - Lampeter is a law unto it's own and the majority of us normal people won't go there :D

What you've said just indicates the vast minority attitude which is being erradicated - when was the last time you heard anything from Meibion Glyndwr? FWIW I absolutely condemn attacks, verbal or physical, on anyone due their nationality. Banter is another subject though!

I experienced anti-Welsh feeling in Oxford - you've experienced anti-English attitudes in Wales. It just goes to show the ignorance is all over the UK.

Bit off-topic mind.....:disturbd:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

But he's already played for England under 21's. The swede should have played him yesterday, there was nothing to lose.

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Sadly, in Scotland too. Terrible - he's seven for ****s sake! LINK

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Pathetic - mindless thuggery.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

At the risk of repeating myself from another thread :monkey:

With apologies to Baddiell and Skinner :p:

He's coming home,
He's coming home
Owen's coming home.

Three minutes on the pitch,
Michael Owen stood dreaming
tripped on a piece of dirt
Like a girl lay screaming

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nd/5100516.stm

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

On a lighter note apparently a conversation was overheard between Eriksson and Mclaren before the Sweden game. Sven said, 'you take the first half, i'll take the second'. :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

"Many players"??

Let's count them. Crouch? Ok. Rooney? Still not 100%. Walcott? Unproven. Gerrard? Out of position. Ditto Lampard and Joe Cole.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Just back from a Stag do in Magaluf. Had some great banter with a few England fans over there, others didn't really like our banter. How we avoided a kicking I'll never know!