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Originally Posted by orangebird
That's the difference bewteen them and us. If England weren't in it and ROI were, I'd be after ROI (mothers team), or Spain (dads home). And I certainly wouldn't be supporting 'anyone but Scotland or Wales'. It's incredibly childish and bitter.
I think England stand as good a chance as any. We do need to click more (and I think that started yesterday), but as players go, ours ARE amongst the best in the world.
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Having lived in both Wales and Scotland, I am sad to say that nationalism in both countries does have an unfortunate, negative, bitter streak to it. This is not to say that 'the Welsh' or 'the Scots' are negative, bitter people. Far from it. But there is a group within the nationalist-sympathising people of those nations who seem able to express their national pride only in terms of hatred towards England and an utterly bizarre denial of the connection between the home nations in these islands.
Scotland may, just, become an independent nation one day, or at the very least an autonomous one within the UK. At the moment, however, its just not mature enough. Unionists have nothing to fear until Scotland grows up enough to choose something other than a song about a 700-year-old military victory over England as its 'national anthem'.