AV3 wrote:WelshPatriot wrote:Had this discussion with English colleagueswho rightly so ripped me about Wales I laughed it off it's banter they'll get it back in turn but when they asked mewhy the dislike I told them, grow up watching the news wait for the sports news you'll watch a 3 minute report about England then as a favour they'll mention the scores of any games Wales, Scotland or Ireland may have been involved in, grow up going to the football as a kid where opposition fans call you sheep sh##gging c##nts and so on, grow up going to away games where opposition fans mob up to"get the taffs" grow up when every tournament 1966 crops up....again....you kind of build up a dislike not necessarily personal but a dislike for their international teams.
Mate, seriously, you don't realise how small time you are making yourself look.
TV and papers are going to release new that the majority of people are going to be interested in. If 70% f the viewers are English and 30% Welsh, they will not stay in business for very long focusing on Welsh reports.
From where I'm sitting, you've had one good tournament in your lives and all of a sudden, you think you are our equals in football terms. If it wasn't for Gareth Bale, I doubt you'd even have had that tournament.
From where I'm sitting, you're all just coming across as the Birmingham City of the UK. Sorry if I've missed something but come on, surely you can see the irony of celebrating England getting knocked out of a tournament that you couldn't even qualify for?
No opposition fans "mob up" against you, unless you're talking about your invasions of places like Bury or Rotherham. Come on, landing on those towns is hardly the stuff that legends are made of is it?
I see you only selected parts of my post to pick on.
I didn't say they should focus on Welsh news did I? I pointed out frustrations when England, Wales Ireland and Scotland play on the same night and England get a 2 minute report then the results of the other games get read out. If you think that makes me small-time well your a bit weird my friend.
I not once mention Wales being a footballing giant on the world scene yet you've decided I have....again weird....however as you've brought it up for you believe that because England won the world cup in 66 your team is somehow more important than Wales Scotlandand Ireland because that's what your implying...its that exact sort of attitude that people despise.
You then mention me celebrating England getting knocked out of a tournament we couldn't even qualify for. Again not something I said....isnt it weird how you keep changing every thing I said....what I actually said was I took the piss taking off my English colleagues this week as banter nothing more nothing else and that should England fail they'll get it back (banter) and my colleagues will be fully expecting it. It's called humour. They rip me I rip them.
Again you say I imply other firms join up well I didn't day that what I meant was they have traditionally always pulled good numbers when the "taffs are in town" to have a pop at us. But yes you may not know over the years (don't know how old you are) but some English firms have mobbed up togethervfor a host the tags especially in London.
Again you say about "landing on these towns is hardly stuff of legends" please enlighten me as to when i claimed such a thing?
I merely pointed out:
A. I have banter about international football with my English colleagues.
B. Reasons why being Welsh a dislike for English football exists
You for some reason took it upon yourself to make up a load of nonsense about my original post.