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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: British Soccer Fans = Koreans?? |
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It seems not only the Koreans are rejecting the country of the team that knocked them out of the World Cup.
English shun Portugal as holiday resort
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| "Last week, Portugal was our fourth most-searched destination -- but since Saturday it's fallen down to 15th place," said John Bevan from online travel agent Lastminute.com on Tuesday. |
Rooney 'gobsmacked' by red card
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060704/wl_uk_afp/fblwc2006engporbritaintraveloffbeat_060704162757
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Innocent bystanders, meanwhile, appearing to be paying the price for Ronaldo's actions.
The Sun reports an English racehorse owner has had a colt gelded because its name is Ronaldo. (Gelded - of a male animal, having the *beep* removed; "a cut horse".)
"It would have given me much more satisfaction if I could have had the real Ronaldo's nuts cut off. But this is the best I could do," said Gary Martin, 55, of Windmill Hill, East Sussex.  |
http://soccer.sportsnet.tsn.ca/news_story/?id=385 |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, the British have always been known as copying everything Korea does. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| Sore losers in every country. I did notice some English fans trying to downplay the result as best they could. Not sure if they have bombarded the Fifa website yet though. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:18 am Post subject: |
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Britain didn't qualify for the World Cup, OP. There's no British team - it's England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when it comes to football. Seems unfair for your criticism to impinge on the others who are not only from different countries but also (consequently) support England about as much as you support killing and eating babies.
But anyway, your point isn't entirely without merit. The English tabloid Press and the general rabble do indeed bear a striking similarity to the absurd over-optimism, over-zealousness and nationalistic self-triumphalism of the Koreans - a heck of a lot of Koreans if my observations are anything to go by. You get the like in every country, believe me. What I will say though is that you'll find a much bigger base of rational, more objective, critical comment amongst the English - possibly more so than in Korea because the English know more about the game, should be used to this kind of thing by now, and are, generally, a more liberal and educated people. This sounds snobby, but really, the opinions of the kinds of people who go to Portugal on package holidays aren't the opinions we should consider representative of all English soccer fans, and much less the country. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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ENGLISH!!
KOREAN!!!
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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Does this mean we are just as racist and nationalist as Korea  
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Holyjoe
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Britain didn't qualify for the World Cup, OP. There's no British team - it's England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when it comes to football. Seems unfair for your criticism to impinge on the others who are not only from different countries but also (consequently) support England about as much as you support killing and eating babies.
But anyway, your point isn't entirely without merit. The English tabloid Press and the general rabble do indeed bear a striking similarity to the absurd over-optimism, over-zealousness and nationalistic self-triumphalism of the Koreans - a heck of a lot of Koreans if my observations are anything to go by. |
Yeah, I was going to say that I certainly bear no ill will to the fine nation of Portugal after it's football team's performances in the last two major tournaments 
And on the point of the English tabloid press, I thought this Sun pull-out was more than a wee bit over the top:
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
Britain didn't qualify for the World Cup, OP. There's no British team - it's England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when it comes to football. Seems unfair for your criticism to impinge on the others who are not only from different countries but also (consequently) support England about as much as you support killing and eating babies.
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Dude chill. Yes that's exactly what I meant to do, insult England. Most North Americans don't know the difference between Britain and England. How many times is it said on here that Canada is part of the U.S.
Re-freakin-lax. Mabye we should replace the Queen's head on Canadian coins with the explanation so as not to offend next time. |
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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:51 am Post subject: |
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"Park, Park wherever you may be
You eat dogs in your home country
But it could be worse, you could be f***ing scouse
Eating rat in your council house"
Well-known, eh? I don't know how to take this Man U. chant.
I tend to feel English people in Korea aren't so harsh harsh on Korea as they are from the old world. I don't know... |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| Soccer has the nuttiest fans. It could be because it's the one sport with such huge, international attention, so people's nationalistic feelings are tapped. But, I'm content to just laugh at soccer fans. teehee. |
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trigger123
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
Location: TALKING TO STRANGERS, IN A BETTER PLACE
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| doggyji wrote: |
"Park, Park wherever you may be
You eat dogs in your home country
But it could be worse, you could be f***ing scouse
Eating rat in your council house"
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brilliant!!!
i'm 100% english, half korean (ticktock?  ), so let me have my penny worth...
living in a student hostel in london, amongst students and young people from all over the world. every world cup match has been packed out with the bar full of every nationality you can possibly think of. EVERY fan from EVERY country is as nutty as the other.
you want crazed shouting at everything? swearing? gesticulating? every single country has had fans like that at the bar... these stereotypes are balls, if you pardun me pun.. |
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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Yes, the British have always been known as copying everything Korea does. |
LOL. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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LONDON, England -- I would reckon that they've chopped a couple thousand trees to print up eulogies for the latest England team that fizzled out in the quarterfinals at the World Cup. Blame is being dealt out with a ferocity generally not witnessed outside of feeding time in the shark tank. It's Sven's fault, it's Ronaldo's fault, it's the referee's fault. In the majority of coverage from the English sports media, the players have escaped the worst of the criticism. This just goes to show you that no matter what side of the Atlantic you're on, an old sports adage holds true: A coach always gets way too much credit when the team is doing well and way too much blame when they're not.
Sven-Goran Eriksson's five-and-a-half-year reign as England head coach is generally being viewed as a failure. From the standpoint of winning either the European Championship or the World Cup, there is no arguing with this. But if that is your only criteria -- championships -- then the line of failures forms to the right, and it's a long one. Sven won exactly the same number of titles as the knighted Sir Bobby Robson (England manager from '82 to '90), Graham Taylor ('90 to '93), Terry Venables ('94 to '96), Glenn Hoddle ('96 to '99) and Kevin Keegan ('99 to 2000). Here's another thing about Eriksson: His winning percentage is better than every single one of the aforementioned managers. During his run, England never failed to qualify for a major tournament ('02 World Cup, '04 European Championship and '06 World Cup). They made it to the quarter-finals in each of those tournaments, only to lose on penalties each time.
Do you want to know who messed up? The players, plain and simple. Frank Lampard, runner-up last year to Ronaldinho for FIFA World Player of the Year? Are you kidding? He couldn't have put a ball into the ocean during the World Cup. Eleven shots on goal in five matches and no goal -- including a pitiful effort in the biggest penalty shootout of his life. David Beckham, the captain and "greatest England player of his generation": five games, three shots, two assists and one goal. Jamie Carragher steps up to take his penalty and has to take it again because the referee hadn't blown his whistle. Carragher admitted later he didn't know the referee had to blow his whistle before he could take the penalty. A professional football player, at the World Cup, doesn't know this?
And then there's Wayne Rooney. He played in four matches, managed four shots on goal and didn't score. In fairness, he was coming off a foot injury. But it wasn't his foot that failed him in the quarter-final game against Portugal -- it was his brain ... again. He was playing the biggest game of his career and he allowed himself to get caught up in the emotion and get sent off. If the stomp to Ricardo Carvalho's groin didn't assure the red card for violent play, then shoving Cristiano Ronaldo most definitely sealed the sending off. Had Rooney not watched any of the other matches at the World Cup? Was he not aware of the record number of red cards that had been shown? His actions, and reaction, were stupid and reckless for a player of his calibre in a game of that magnitude.
Here's another point: Maybe the reality is that England just isn't that good. The fact is that England has only won one World Cup, and that was 40 years ago. Maybe they've fallen behind the rest of the football world. When was the last time an English player won the FIFA World Player of the Year Award? Never, would the answer. How come there are no English coaches at the helm of a World Cup team for any nation in Germany? Why do English players consistently whither in the white heat of a penalty shootout at a major competition?
Instead of blaming everyone from the (Swedish) head coach to opposition players to referees, maybe the FA and the English football reporting media should take a deep breath and take a look in the mirror.
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Britain didn't qualify for the World Cup, OP. There's no British team - it's England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when it comes to football. Seems unfair for your criticism to impinge on the others who are not only from different countries but also (consequently) support England about as much as you support killing and eating babies.
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Dude chill.
Re-freakin-lax. |
I do not need to chill or re-freakin-lax. I calmly explained that the British are of little relevance here. It's you who needs to relax I think |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Cristiano Ronaldo went into the doctors and said "Doctor, I get sexually aroused every time I look in the mirror".
The doctor replied "I'm not surprised, you're a c*nt!" |
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