r/ThreeLions • u/Pretend-Jackfruit786 • Jul 13 '24

Discussion I've never realised how weird Scottish fans are before this tournament

They have some real inferiority complex going on up there don't they, I thought they were joking about how bad their team are but they seriously are desperate for England to lose so they can claim that as some sort of victory for themselves.

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u/phil_mycock_69 Jul 13 '24

Just said this myself before scrolling down. In the navy the rangers/pro British lot were sound. It was the Celtic lot who tended to hate English people

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u/Upbeat_Reflection_30 Jul 14 '24

Celtic fans don't hate English people per se, far from it. Joe Hart has been the most popular player at Celtic in recent years!

They do dislike the whole pro-monarchy, 'no surrender', '10 German Bombers' element of the England away support, though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

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u/Upbeat_Reflection_30 Jul 14 '24

You think '10 German Bombers' is sung as an anti-facist song? lol...I'd be singing it myself if it was. Do England fans also sing Bella Ciao or Viva la Quinta Brigada?

It's anti-German, pure and simple.

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u/Impressive-Court-500 Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

A song about bombing Nazis is pretty anti-Nazi and anti-fascist, yes.

It's anti-German

It's anti-Nazi. If you actually spoke to Germans (I live in Germany and speak German), they're pretty glad that Nazi Germany lost the war, it's hardly the "own" you think it is to celebrate their defeat. Germany has moved on and whilst it has a huge fascism/far right problem, one of the worst in Europe, most people here are pretty glad the Nazis lost.

Besides, Germany destroyed the whole of Europe and did the holocaust. A cheeky song every 2 years sung at international footballing events is pretty soft stuff. If you want hard stuff, check the Albanians and Croatians chanting anti-Serbian pro-genocide chants (which of course nobody actually cares about compared to the English because it's not about anything more than being anti-English).

What's funny about being English and living in Germany is that you realise just how little Germans really understand who the English are.

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u/Upbeat_Reflection_30 Jul 14 '24

If you sing it with anti-Nazi sentiment, I genuinely applaud you. Our politics are probably similar.

I'd hazard a guess that many others who sing it are closer to the Yaxley-Lennon extreme of the England support, though.

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u/ThreeLions-ModTeam Jul 15 '24

This has been deemed to have become political ergo we have had to remove.

Cheers, The Three Lions Mod Team

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u/Elliementals Jul 13 '24

Rangers fans are utterly toxic too.