What Were They Thinking?

[ichkeria]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63242412

I mean, there are lots of chants, lots of patriotic songs …

Even after a lifetime of hearing about this sort of thing, I genuinely find this mindset baffling.

[Peter Pedant]

"I've also told her that putting it on social media is not the biggest thing.

talk about shooting the messenger....but it does show of course that at the time they thought there was nothing wrong with it
(that is how the troopers go t off , abusing the prisoners in Iraq. If they video'd it then they cd not possibly have done it with criminal intent) - - just saying

[ZebuSanctuary]

//without knowing what the slogan actually was//

One such IRA slogan is Tiocfaidh ár lá which apparently translates as "Our day will come". One would not be surprised if this is what the ladies were chanting. Southgate's boys sang (almost in unison)... 'It's coming home...' Both phrases are intended as a 'gee up' and are grammatically in future tense.

Personally I have been more moved by opposing football fans mocking the 1958 Munich air disaster. Namely and fairly recently, a small mindless contingent of the Man City crowd visiting Old Trafford, found themselves being ejected from the ground for such behaviour. It's somewhat strange that in English Law (to the best of my knowledge) one cannot libel the dead, yet one imagines, given the right atmosphere being the recipient of such taunts, proves efficacious in raising a man's blood!

We ought to bear in mind, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from responsibility!

[ZebuSanctuary]

// telling Marcus Rashford to go and swing in a tree....//

Repent of your sins PP and take the knee.

[1ozzy]

//the chorus goes;
“Ooh ah up the ‘Ra”//

Does that mean they are being supportive or telling them to shove it?
I'd love to know.

[ZebuSanctuary]

// being supportive or telling them to shove it?
I'd love to know. //

Good point, well made!