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| 1. Author: jake89 Date: Fri 19th Jun 2026. 18:13 It`s maybe just me, but the World Cup seems to have magnified how "lost" England is. In contrast to the Scots with their bagpipes, kilts and dancing, England is bringing...songs about WW2. I was listening to Talk Sport and the ignorance towards Scotland as a country was so incredible that it must have been intentional (essentially questioning if you ever actually heard bagpipes music outside national games - clearly never visited any Scottish high street!). Has English culture been diluted so much that they are now lost, and is this what`s feeding these rose-tinted views of "old England"? Reply |
| 2. Author: Bletchley_Par Date: Fri 19th Jun 2026. 18:33 Trust me Jake, we want it to be about the bagpipes and kilt and the heeland dancing, but the Zenith was us singing a song from 700 years ago. It broke sound records. Do you want our fellow islanders to get out the sticks and start Morris dancing and taking bad penalties? They can`t compete with us.  Reply |
| 3. Author: Bletchley_Par Date: Fri 19th Jun 2026. 18:34 *Song about a battle 700 years ago. Reply |
| 4. Author: jake89 Date: Fri 19th Jun 2026. 18:42 I was about to say 😂 The Corrie`s weren`t that old! Reply |
| 5. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Fri 19th Jun 2026. 18:54 Talksport is a fun but irritating listen at the best of times, but some of the down talking of Scotland has been cringe from some of them. Although some of them (Olivia Buzaglo) have been turned just by our fans behaviour in the states. People like Jason Cundy and Andy Goldstein are deliberate wind up merchants, and its that glaringly obvious that anyone that takes offence at it requires an injection of a sense of humour. Now, the general English media is pretty cringeworthy as a whole. But then they question why Scotland fans want them to fail…..and thats not including the sporting rivalry, they are just insufferable. Scotland fans have done the norm over there - made a name for themselves in a good way and should really win a Fifa prize for it 🤷🏻♂️ it will certainly boost our economy over Englands. Reply |
| 6. Author: Tad Allagash Date: Fri 19th Jun 2026. 20:00 ‘Doe, a deer, a female deer….’ Oh wait a minute. That’s a song about the Anschluss. That’s a little too close to a WW2 song. Reply |
| 7. Author: hurricane_jimmy Date: Sat 20th Jun 2026. 09:19 Did my teacher training in the North of England and that was an interesting experience...a nation of complainers who love to moan but do hee haw to fix anything just about sums it up. On the individual level, nice people, but their collective mindset is honestly horrendous. My experience was that the English really don`t like anyone that is different and also think they are superior to other cultures. Yet, when they come to Scotland they think "we`re all British"...go figure! And then you get the English folk that move to Scotland, having never paid tax in the country, to take advantage of the better social benefits - my parents street in Clackmannan is full of English Tory-voting retirees...then they come here and continue to vote Tory/Reform and wonder why the system is cracking at the seams...actually boggin! And here in Hong Kong, you get the ex-Colonials who have never learned a word of Cantonese in 10/20+ years or even Putonghua for that matters, yet they seem to thing HK is just "East England". It really is just an Imperial hangover... My experience of 10 years in Scandinavia is that Scots are much more similar to Danes in spirit and very Nordic in mentality just about sums it up. The UK is a fundamentally flawed and broken concept and the sooner it dies, the better. Let the English dig their own grave so we can return to the EU! Reply |
| 8. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sun 21st Jun 2026. 00:28 I actually don’t mind Cundy and his Haiti/Morocco and no doubt Brazil shirt. It’s literally just banter, same as Scottish singing Maradona songs or whatever 🤷🏻♂️ Politically there does seem to be a rise in English nationalism but considering we’ve got our own nationalist movement should we complain? I also see there’s an increase online of like British ethno-nationalism. Basically the racists 🤷🏻♂️ very small noisy minority. Their arguments and positions fall down at the slightest bit of push back. COYP Reply |
| 9. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 15:35 Bostonians not happy that Engerland fans are singing songs that insult Scotland ! Reply |
| 10. Author: saltonsgonagetu Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 16:58 Tad Allagash, Fri 19 Jun 20:00 Engerland fans singing a a song about the English RAF shooting down German bombers , with England having a German manager is peak Englishness.  Reply |
| 11. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 17:18 saltonsgonagetu, Tue 23 Jun 16:58 Plus the RAF are British, not English. Reply |
| 12. Author: Back_oh_the_net Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 17:59 Dave_1885, Fri 19 Jun 18:54 Jason cu&nty is always a total fud still remember his wee face when Italy gubbed then in the euros he thought England just had to turn up 😂😂😂 Reply |
| 13. Author: NMCmassive Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 20:42 Yeah I did take a little delight at his face after that one 🤣 COYP Reply |
| 14. Author: Buster_Brown Date: Mon 6th Jul 2026. 22:56 saltonsgonagetu, Tue 23 Jun 16:58 I’ve spent the last 4 days Silverstone and the amount of times I have heard that song is well over a hundred by now. As a veteran myself, I wanted to point out that the English have never had an RAF, but thought better of it. Loving You, Is In My DNA 🇾🇪 Reply |
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