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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,030
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    Yeah i often find myself cheering on palace and the scum for that same reason 

    No way,  I want all neighbours to suffer and lose cos rightfully they (mostly) love it when we’re shit so yep let them suffer to 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,832
    Come on @se9addick
    you can’t be that surprised?

    have you never read the match threads before England play your mob or wales etc 

    I have got more in common with Millwall but doesnt mean I wanted them to beat Ferencvaros when they played them in Europe 


  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    karma.

    https://youtu.be/sOHgwMA18UI
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,525
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    As others have said, its they way they behaved in 2016. 
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    I’d prefer it if the rest of the home nations qualified as it gives the tournament a bit of added excitement but once they’re there, I want them to get smashed every game 
    can’t wait for the opening game when the krauts wallop the sweaties. Look at their record ever since they qualified, they then came up against us in a friendly and never laid a glove
    It’s gonna be embarrassing for them and I can’t wait 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Leaving aside local rivalries, as a neutral it would hardly be exciting seeing Wales in the Euros. Without Bale they aren't "interesting" any more.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Yeah I never had issue with Wales, always felt it would be great if we could have a Tournament will all the Home Nations involved (Guess we will in four years time) - But the Welsh captured on video cheering our exit back in 2016 was the turning point for me.

    The love affair the media have with them is sickening too - Had England been captured on video celebrating a teams exit from the competition like that, it would have been both a National / International Scandal, which would probably result in whoever the Manager was being sacked, for no other reason.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,971
    Wales hate us, so it’s hilarious when they get turned over. Fuck em.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,240
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    By the same thing we should cheer on France then? Seeing as they're our neighbours, we share a rail tunnel with them and we had dual monarchy with them at some point in history?
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited March 2024
    I would have been happy if Wales qualified but if I'm being honest, it didn't bother me that much they didn't.
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I would have been happy if Wales qualified but if I'm being honest, it didn't bother me that much they didn't.
    Probably would have preferred them to qualify as it’s another three matches I am emotionally invested in rather than just three random Poland matches. 

    Would have been better for the environment as the Wales/Scotland teams could travelled back together after going out in the group stages. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,030
    sam3110 said:
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    By the same thing we should cheer on France then? Seeing as they're our neighbours, we share a rail tunnel with them and we had dual monarchy with them at some point in history?
    You think England has as much in common with France as it does with Wales? Really?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    edited March 2024
    se9addick said:
    sam3110 said:
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    By the same thing we should cheer on France then? Seeing as they're our neighbours, we share a rail tunnel with them and we had dual monarchy with them at some point in history?
    You think England has as much in common with France as it does with Wales? Really?
    Well Edward I conquered Wales, and was from the House of Plantagenet which originated from France

    It was a Plantagenet King when the Magna Carta came into effect too etc.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,240
    Even when I was a schoolboy in 1994 the volume of people choosing to support Ireland with no link to them at all properly baffled me, its stuck with me too regarding people going silly on March 17th but having no clue when St Georges day is. 

    Wales, Ireland and Scotland can get in the bin, I respect the fact they hate us and while I look on them with disdain I hate the media love in especially with the jocks (no Scotland, no party was a banger mind you) yet anyone who has had so much as a parking ticket is banned from going away with England now but a load of pissed, sunburned, naked, flabby celts in Hyde Park or Trafalgar square is harmless japes 

    Credit to any of them who qualify but I enjoy witnessing their inevitable shitness once they do. I still remember my grandad laughing his bollocks off at Jim Leighton in 1990 and the joy that bought us 


  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,745
    se9addick said:
    sam3110 said:
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    By the same thing we should cheer on France then? Seeing as they're our neighbours, we share a rail tunnel with them and we had dual monarchy with them at some point in history?
    You think England has as much in common with France as it does with Wales? Really?

    The English language gets 40 per cent of its vocabulary from French whereas there seems to be only maybe 10 words that come from Celtic. Regarding phonology, English spoken in England (not Scotland or Ireland) adopts no Celtic sounds.

    Also, as se9addick  says, England and  Normandy  were ruled by the same royalty for centuries. 

    Apart from Wales being in the UK, it’s arguable that England has more in common with France than with Wales.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    I've been to Spain and their islands about 30 times. 
    I've been to Portugal about 10 times. 
    I've been to Egypt 10 times. 
    And I've been to plenty of othe countries as well.

    I've never been to Ireland, North or South. 
    I've never been to Scotland. 
    I've only ever been to Wales to watch Charlton play. 
    I feel I have far more in common with other countries than I do our closest neighbours. 

    Plus they all want us to lose. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    blackpool72 said:
    se9addick said:
    Surprised at how many people are happy Wales failed. I always want the British teams (and failing that, Ireland) to do well. Far more in common with those nations than the rest of the world.
    I've been to Spain and their islands about 30 times. 
    I've been to Portugal about 10 times. 
    I've been to Egypt 10 times. 
    And I've been to plenty of othe countries as well.

    I've never been to Ireland, North or South. 
    I've never been to Scotland. 
    I've only ever been to Wales to watch Charlton play. 
    I feel I have far more in common with other countries than I do our closest neighbours. 

    Plus they all want us to lose. 
    I have never been to Scotland and sort of instinctively aim for where it is warmer rather than colder. I do enjoy it in Europe, you have the Alps, the lakes the beaches and the food in the case of some countries. And for the most part they are very friendly, except for the French :).

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