I always cheer the other team whenever England play.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:34, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Yes, for entirely specious reasons.
Much like all the Welsh I've met that do the same for similarly irrational causes.
( Kroney, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:36, Reply)

being anti- England in sports
Is not the same as being anti English.

You do realise this, right? It's a sporting rivalry. I know plenty of Leeds fans who would rather cheer on Gallatasserai (sp?) than Man United. Same thing.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:41, Reply)

It's not a sporting rivalry.
"Rivalry" requires it be a two way deal. The English do not cheer against the Scottish.
( Kroney, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:42, Reply)

Indeed, at the Wimbledon final, I imagine a lot of English people were cheering Murray on.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:45, Reply)

Yes, they were.

( Kroney, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:47, Reply)

no, it is a rivalry in that we tend to enjoy seeing our bigger and more skilled neighbour lose.
I have no beef at all with the English, I have lived and worked in England tor ten years. Having a beef with the people as a whole would be irrational and silly. Sport is just a game remember, and the schadenfreude when, say, Germany beat England at football is immense. I can separate
sporting loyalties from real life.

Just to be clear here: supporting the other team in sporting events is not the same as anti-English xenophobia.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:48, Reply)

That's because of your nationality and the inherent hatred of the English it conveys, I assume
If you were English you'd be getting the same treatment as Swipey's cunt of an ex
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:37, Reply)

That'd be the hatred borne for a grudge that became irrelevant some 250 years ago
I assume.
( Kroney, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:40, Reply)

It's very important that Scots assuage their sadness at being worse than the English at all sports
by supporting teams that are sometimes better than the English.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:41, Reply)

I'm clicking this
Because frankly it sums the issue up perfectly.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:46, Reply)

That's becasue you have a Scottish child-mind

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:40, Reply)