The Sisters of Mercy Forum
did scotland lose to egypt as wellRed Sunsets wrote:Padstar wrote:True, but not by the Pharoe Islands....Red Sunsets wrote:you still got beat, Paddy
Paddy.
I always manage to upset someone, without even trying.Padstar wrote:My other half is Danish... shes furious
Paddy.
Yes, it's good of the Scots to keep their hooliganism for their own domestic encounters. I seem to recall when I was in Glasgow being told that on the night of an Old Firm game Monklands Hospital would have the busiest casualty department in Europe.Nazareth wrote:Less of the British please! Its the English who have the worst behaviour abroad.
Red Sunsets wrote:Gary Lineker, Winston Churchill, Maggie Thatcher, vos garçons a pris
un enfer d'un battement !
Don't want to nitpick but it should be: ONT pris ...emilystrange wrote:AVEZ pris
Monklands Hospital is about 15-18 miles outside Glasgow.andymackem wrote:Yes, it's good of the Scots to keep their hooliganism for their own domestic encounters. I seem to recall when I was in Glasgow being told that on the night of an Old Firm game Monklands Hospital would have the busiest casualty department in Europe.
Well that is the difference, the scottish fans are one of the best in the world, when they go abroad they usually behave well. The rangers-celtic thing, well i am continually repulsed by it. But you have also got to bear in mind that there is a lot of ireland in glasgow.andymackem wrote:
Yes, it's good of the Scots to keep their hooliganism for their own domestic encounters. I seem to recall when I was in Glasgow being told that on the night of an Old Firm game Monklands Hospital would have the busiest casualty department in Europe.
Avoir: to haveHojyuu-obi wrote:Don't want to nitpick but it should be: ONT pris ...emilystrange wrote:AVEZ pris
Don't think the Dutch team played the Germans at the 1998 World Cup tournament. Think it was Yugoslavia. Not to say that there isn't a problem with hooliganism when it concerns Dutch teams. However, it seldom spills over to the national team. Still, last April there were some nasty scenes at the Young Ajax - Young Feyenoord match. Clubs were fined and Ajax stepped away from using the supplementary stadium they were using for this. The trainer Ronald Koeman also publically apologised for the behaviour of the fans.andymackem wrote:Then we have the Dutch - try inserting yourself into the PSV-Ajax-Feyenoord rivalries. We don't pay attention to that though, because they are "colourful" and wear orange so they must be alright. Just ask that policeman who was battered into a coma in Lens when Holland played Germany.
So all Scots support St Mirren and Albion Rovers apart from the Scottish squad, do they? And the Old Firm's quadrenniel outpouring of hatred is simply an Irish dispute shifted a few miles east? This is the kind of woolly, one-size-fits-all thinking that ensures anyone from England wearing a football shirt is treated with wary suspicion whenever they cross the channel. Can I get away with saying that I'm constantly repulsed by English fans' behaviour abroad, but shrug and say there's a lot of people from Essex over there? Blame some other bunch of c**t?Nazareth wrote:Well that is the difference, the scottish fans are one of the best in the world, when they go abroad they usually behave well. The rangers-celtic thing, well i am continually repulsed by it. But you have also got to bear in mind that there is a lot of ireland in glasgow.andymackem wrote:
Yes, it's good of the Scots to keep their hooliganism for their own domestic encounters. I seem to recall when I was in Glasgow being told that on the night of an Old Firm game Monklands Hospital would have the busiest casualty department in Europe.
But it does underscore my point that hooliganism is not, and should not be seen as an exclusively English problem - it is as widespread as football.
Well i don't support either of the old firm, but they do seem to attack each other rather than fans from other countries. They will be leaving us soon to set up a mini-european league hopefully. Noone would be wary seeing a fan with a scottish shirt on, but they would maybe be wary seeing a fan with an old firm shirt on. Everyone realises that the hooligan element is a small minority, the english do have a bad reputation for it, but so do other countries.andymackem wrote:
So all Scots support St Mirren and Albion Rovers apart from the Scottish squad, do they? And the Old Firm's quadrenniel outpouring of hatred is simply an Irish dispute shifted a few miles east? This is the kind of woolly, one-size-fits-all thinking that ensures anyone from England wearing a football shirt is treated with wary suspicion whenever they cross the channel. Can I get away with saying that I'm constantly repulsed by English fans' behaviour abroad, but shrug and say there's a lot of people from Essex over there? Blame some other bunch of ****?
RS: I've had the pleasure of work experience in Airdrie. The casualty department looked like one of the more desirable venues in town, to be fair. Horrid place, and Coatbridge looked no better. I scuttled happily back to Glasgow at the first opportunity, and started looking for jobs down south!
Except maybe an England fanNazareth wrote:
Well i don't support either of the old firm, but they do seem to attack each other rather than fans from other countries. They will be leaving us soon to set up a mini-european league hopefully. Noone would be wary seeing a fan with a scottish shirt on, but they would maybe be wary seeing a fan with an old firm shirt on. Everyone realises that the hooligan element is a small minority, the english do have a bad reputation for it, but so do other countries.
I agree with you about coatbridge, it is a dump...but you cant really judge scotland by what you see in glasgow and its surrounding areas. Everything you see there is the worst it gets in scotland.
